George Peppard
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-10-01
Day of Death
1994-05-08 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
George Peppard
Biography
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
Acting
(2006)
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic
as Self (archive footage)
(1996)
Sad?
as (archive footage)
(1993)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
(1992)
The Tigress
as Sid Slaughter
(1990)
Night of the Fox
as Col. Harry Martineau / Max Vogel
(1989)
Silence Like Glass
as Mr. Martin
(1989)
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
as Frank Doakey
(1988)
Man Against the Mob
as Frank Doakey
(1982)
(1982)
Target Eagle
as McFadden
(1981)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jim Daley
(1981)
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Theo Brown
(1980)
Battle Beyond the Stars
as Cowboy
(1979)
From Hell to Victory
as Brett Rosson
(1979)
An Almost Perfect Affair
as Self (uncredited)
(1979)
Crisis in Mid-Air
as Nick Culver
(1979)
Torn Between Two Lovers
as Paul Rasmussen
(1978)
Five Days from Home
as TM Pryor
(1977)
Damnation Alley
as Maj. Eugene Denton
(1975)
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
as Dr. Samuel Sheppard
(1975)
One of Our Own
as Dr. Jake Goodwin
(1974)
Newman's Law
as Vince Newman
(1972)
The Bravos
as Major John David Harkness
(1972)
The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Tuxan
(1971)
One More Train to Rob
as Harker Fleet
(1970)
Cannon for Cordoba
as Rod
(1970)
The Executioner
as John Shay
(1969)
Pendulum
as Capt. Frank Matthews
(1968)
P.J.
as P.J. Detweiler
(1968)
House of Cards
as Reno Davis
(1968)
(1968)
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
as Self
(1967)
Tobruk
as Captain Kurt Bergman
(1967)
Rough Night in Jericho
as Dolan
(1966)
The Blue Max
as Lt. Bruno Stachel
(1965)
Operation Crossbow
as Lt. John Curtis
(1965)
The Third Day
as Steve Mallory
(1964)
The Carpetbaggers
as Jonas Cord Junior
(1963)
The Victors
as Cpl. Chase
(1962)
How the West Was Won
as Zeb Rawlings
(1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
as Paul Varjak
(1960)
Home from the Hill
as Rafe Copley
(1960)
The Subterraneans
as Leo Percepied
(1959)
Pork Chop Hill
as Cpl. Chuck Fedderson
(1958)
Little Moon of Alban
as Dennis Walsh
(1957)
The Strange One
as Robert Marquales
(1956)
Bang the Drum Slowly
as Piney Woods
Crew
(1978)
Five Days from Home
Director, Producer