George Peppard
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Breakfast at Tiffany's
as Paul Varjak 1961
How the West Was Won
as Zeb Rawlings 1962
Battle Beyond the Stars
as Cowboy 1980
Operation Crossbow
as Lt. John Curtis 1965
The Blue Max
as Lt. Bruno Stachel 1966
Damnation Alley
as Maj. Eugene Denton 1977
Pork Chop Hill
as Cpl. Chuck Fedderson 1959
Home from the Hill
as Rafe Copley 1960
Tobruk
as Captain Kurt Bergman 1967
The Carpetbaggers
as Jonas Cord Junior 1964
Rough Night in Jericho
as Dolan 1967
Sad?
as (archive footage) 1996
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Theo Brown 1981
The Victors
as Cpl. Chase 1963
The Strange One
as Robert Marquales 1957
The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Tuxan 1972
Cannon for Cordoba
as Rod 1970