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
Ed Peck guest-starred on dozens of television series including "The Untouchables", "Perry Mason", "The Fugitive", "Get Smart", "" (Tomorrow Is Yesterday, 1967), "Benson", "Cannon", and "Bonanza", as well as films such as "Heaven Can Wait", "Bullitt", "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie", and "The Prisoner of Second Avenue". He played a rabbi in an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". On January 20, 1952, Peck married advertising copywriter Phyllis Houston in New York. Peck died of a heart attack on September 12, 1992, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 75. His remains were donated to medical science. Ed Peck Ed