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Dirk Benedict

Age: 64
Height: 5' 11"

Birth Place: Helena, Montana, USA
Born: Mar. 1st, 1945

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Dirk Benedict's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The A-Team	Lt. Templeton&hellip
Battlestar Galactica (1978)	Lt. Starbuck
Celebrity Big Brother (UK)	Dirk Benedict
Chopper One	Officer Gil F&hellip
Just Men!	Dirk Benedict

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Dirk Benedict was born in Montana on March 1st, 1945. He was raised in the country, far away from anything connected with movies or acting. He gathered his first experiences in acting (on a dare) in a college production of "Showboat" where he got the main part. His father, a lawyer, died when Dirk was 18, which was hard for him to take. While working on Georgia, Georgia (1972) in Sweden, he made the first contact with a macrobiotic diet and changed his eating habits drastically. He was 26 at that time. A few years later, doctors found that he had cancer of the prostate. He refused to accept the usual treatment and moved away to a secluded cottage. Dirk managed to cure himself from cancer by following the rules of his macrobiotic diet. When he got his part as "Starbuck" in "Battlestar Galactica" (1978), the doctors stated that he was in good health. Dirk's main successes were "Battlestar Galactica" and "The A-Team" (1983) in which he played "Templeton - The Face - Peck". He was formerly married to actress Toni Hudson and has two sons (George and Roland).

TRIVIA:

A prostate cancer survivor. In 1974, medical doctors recommended surgery, but he claimed to have cured his cancer through a macrobiotic diet recommended by 'Gloria Swanson' (qv), his co-star on Broadway in "Butterflies Are Free," and by exercise and fasting. Over a period of 3 years and under the guidance of Michio Kushi, according to his book Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy, beat the cancer. He continues the diet to this day.
After raising his two boys, his comeback actually began in Germany after he appeared at a sci-fi convention in Bonn. A writer-director there saw him and cast him in the German movie _Goldene Zeiten (2006)_ (qv).
Has three sons: John born in 1968, and two younger sons, with 'Toni Hudson' (qv) are George (born in 1988) and Roland (born in 1991).
Dirk is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Earned a B.A. in theatre from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Divorced from actress 'Toni Hudson' (qv) in 1995, he received custody of his boys, George and Roland. He took them home to Montana where he raised them in a 900-square-foot log cabin on his macrobiotic diet.
Helped write the 'love scene' between his and 'Patsy Kensit' (qv)'s character in _Blue Tornado (1991)_ (qv).