Dirk Benedict 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 Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Priscilla Mella (née Metzger), an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from
Bob Peck films portraying the roles of Captain Sebastian Belger in "Merisairas", Françoise's father in "Surviving Picasso", Ravn in "Smilla's Sense of Snow", Harry Briggs in "" and Denton (based on Lancelot Dent) in the film "The Opium War" (Chinese name "Yapian zhangzheng"). He also appeared in the direct-to-TV film "The Scold's Bridle" (1998). In 2000, a year after Peck's death from cancer, the stop-motion animated film "The Miracle Maker", was released, in which Peck voiced the character of Joseph of Arimathea. The film was dedicated to Peck's memory. Peck won a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the British