George Peppard
Acting

George Peppard

Born 1 October 1928 · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Died 8 May 1994

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.

Known for

Breakfast at Tiffany's
The A-Team
How the West Was Won
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Battle Beyond the Stars
Matlock
The Blue Max
Operation Crossbow
Damnation Alley
Pork Chop Hill
Tobruk
Home from the Hill
The Tigress
Night of the Fox
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Silence Like Glass
Man Against the Mob
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Twilight Theatre
Target Eagle
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Battle Beyond the Stars
From Hell to Victory
Crisis in Mid-Air
Torn Between Two Lovers
Five Days from Home
Damnation Alley
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
One of Our Own
Newman's Law
The Groundstar Conspiracy
The Bravos
One More Train to Rob
Cannon for Cordoba
The Executioner
Pendulum
House of Cards
P.J.
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Tobruk
Rough Night in Jericho
The Blue Max
Operation Crossbow
The Third Day
The Carpetbaggers
The Victors
How the West Was Won
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Home from the Hill
The Subterraneans
Pork Chop Hill
Little Moon of Alban
The Strange One
Bang the Drum Slowly
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