George Peppard Biography

Fast Facts

• Joined the Marines after graduating from high school, and served until the end of his enlistment in January 1948
• After college, moved to New York, where he studied Method acting with Lee Strasberg
• Made Broadway debut in 1956 at the Longacre Theatre in N
• Richard Nash's Girls of Summer
• Was the original choice to play Blake Carrington in the prime-time TV soap Dynasty (1981-89), but was replaced by John Forsythe during the shooting of the pilot due to creative differences with the producers
• Best known for playing a wannabe writer opposite Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and Col
• John "Hannibal" Smith on NBC's The A-Team (1983-87)