Dirk Benedict another son, John Talbert (born 1968), from an earlier relationship, who had been given up for adoption. With the help of his adoptive parents, Talbert discovered and contacted his birth parents. Dirk Benedict Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1, 1945) is an American movie, television and stage actor and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in "The A-Team" television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original "Battlestar Galactica" film and television series. He is the author of "Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy" and "And Then We Went Fishing". Benedict was born
Bob Peck of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth", and re-appeared in another production of Macbeth in 1982. According to Peck's fellow Royal Shakespeare Theatre performer and veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen, Peck is the actor he considers he "learned the most from". Peck's television career began in the 1970s, with his first television roles being in the BBC's "Thirty-Minute Theatre" anthology series in 1972, in which he appeared in the episode "Bypass". He also appeared in various other successful television productions such as "Z-Cars" and "Play for Today". He also appeared in the films "Royal Flash" and "Parker". In 1985 television writer Troy Kennedy