Handsome and elegant George Peppard occasionally displayed considerable talent through his career, but was too often cast in undemanding action roles. Following Broadway and television experience, he made a strong film debut in The Strange One. He started getting noticed when he played Robert Mitchum's illegitimate son in the popular melodrama Home from the Hill. He then established himself as a leading man, giving arguably his most memorable film performance as Audrey Hepburn's love interest in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Seen by the studios as a promising young star, Peppard was subsequently cast in some of the major blockbusters of the early/mid-'60s: How the West Was Won, The Victors, The Carpetbaggers and Operation Crossbow. He reached the peak of his popularity in another such lavish production, The Blue Max, in which he effectively played an obsessively competitive German flying officer during WWI. By the late 1960s, however, he seemed to settle as a tough lead in more average, often hokum, adventures, including House of Cards, Cannon for Cordoba and The Groundstar Conspiracy. In the early 1970s his declining popularity was temporarily boosted thanks to the TV series Banacek. With his film roles becoming increasingly uninteresting, he acted in, directed and produced the drama Five Days from Home, but the result was rather disappointing. In the mid-'80s he again obtained success on television as the leader of The A-Team.


Enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the age of 17. Father of Christian Peppard. Born at 8:29 pm EST. His widow Laura Taylor was a banker in West Palm Beach, Florida when they met. Studied at the famed Actors' Studio, with reknown acting coach, Lee Strasberg. One of his classmates was Rip Torn Told the media how relieved he was shortly after "The A-Team" (1983) ended in 1986 because he likened the mega-hit show to "an out-of-control freight train that would never stop!" Graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He was in the running to replace Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes in "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971). Was a passionate Democrat, and championed health care reform before his death. Made an infamous appearance on "Password Plus" (1979), expressing dissatisfaction with NBC executives watching them "as if you're some sort of crook" (1979). Father of Brad Peppard, Julie Peppard, and Christian Peppard.