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
Peck Television Corp. Peck Television Corp. Peck Television Corp. was a private company headquartered in Montreal, Canada that was a pioneer in television. William Hoyt Peck developed a mechanical television system that was soon superseded by electronic television. Peck Television developed cameras, receivers and was engaged in broadcasting over Montreal's VE9EC (also given as VE9AK and known as Channel 6) in the period of 1931 to 1935 and again in a period starting in 1952. In 1935, Peck denigrated the still developing medium of electronic television, touting the virtues of mechanical television. He was quoted in the January 1935 edition of "Radio News