Dirk Benedict Biography

Dirk Benedict is an American movie television and stage actor who played 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 also the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy.
Benedict made his Broadway debut opposite Diana Rigg and Keith Michell in the short-lived 1971 play Abelard and Heloise before launching his onscreen career with the obscure Swedish drama Georgia Georgia. More film and television roles followed including the unusual horror film Sssssss. By then he was dividing his time between Hollywood and Broadway which included starring roles in Butterflies are Free with silent screen legend Gloria Swanson. His first turn as a series regular came with Chopper One.
Benedict was diagnosed with prostate cancer but reportedly cured the affliction through a macrobiotic diet which was given to him by Gloria Swanson and overseen by author and educator Michio Kushi. The details of his battle with the disease and his eventual recovery were recounted in his autobiographical book Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy: A True Story of Discovery Acting Health Illness Recovery and Life.

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