George Peppard was an American actor born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, who died in 1994 after a long career spanning film and television. He starred as writer Paul Varjak opposite Audrey Hepburn in the classic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and later found a new generation of fans as Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith on the action series 'The A-Team'. His earlier film work included the epic Western 'How the West Was Won'. He remains one of the defining leading men of mid-20th-century American film and television.
George Peppard
Actor
65 years (Oct 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994)Detroit, USADetroit, Michigan, USA
George Peppard was an American actor born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, who died in 1994 after a long career spanning film and television. He starred as writer Paul Varjak opposite Audrey Hepburn in the classic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and later found a new generation of fans as Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith on the action series 'The A-Team'. His earlier film work included the epic Western 'How the West Was Won'. He remains one of the defining leading men of mid-20th-century American film and television.
George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as struggling writer Paul Varjak in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and for playing commando leader Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in the 1980s television series The A-Team.
Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the hit 1980s action show The A-Team.