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 .
Helped write the love scene between his and Patsy Kensit s character in Blue Tornado .
Is a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
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 , 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.
Has three sons: John born in 1968, and two younger sons, with Toni Hudson are George and Roland (born in 1991).
Divorced from actress Toni Hudson 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.
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 .
Earned a B.A. in theatre from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Once posed for a picture with actress Katee Sackhoff at a coffee shop, leading to the picture being titled, "Starbuck with Starbuck at Starbucks!".
Permanently lost 50% of the hearing in his left ear at the age of 12 when he tried climbing through a barbed wire fence while carrying a presumed unloaded gun and it went off next to his head.
As a teenager, worked briefly as a gravedigger.
After his parents divorced, Dirks mother got a restraining order taken out against her ex-husband, prohibiting him from seeing the children at their own home. When Dirk was 18, his father violated the order and told Dirk to go fishing with him. Dirks mother had previously told him to say whatever he needed to to get out of going with his father. Fed up, his father stormed into the house, was shot and killed by his older son, who also nearly shot Dirk when he followed their father into the living room.
Directing Cahoots - a project he started working on 26 years ago. He also wrote the screenplay.
(January 2007) Finished third in the celebrity version of Big Brother
(February 2005) Will be appearing in Goldene Zeiten , a Peter Thorwarth film due out in summer 2005.
Continues to write, contributing essays to the Blockbuster Video UK website and science fiction magazines.
(April 2010) Playing "Columbo" on stage, touring through the UK. He will also be appearing at the "Who" Shop on the 8th May in Blackpool.
Release of his book, "And Then We Went Fishing: A Story of Fatherhood, Fate and Forgiveness".
(January 2007) In UK. Entered the "Celebrity Big Brother" house on January 3rd. Hopes to stay for up to 25 days in this Reality TV Show.
(May 2007) Appeared at the Dutch Star Con in The Netherlands, together with Dwight Schultz.
(August 2006) Appeared at the Wizard World convention in Chicago, Illinois.
In the 5th season of The A Team, in the episode "Family Reunion" we find that "Faces" real name is NOT Templeton Peck but is in fact Richard Bancroft.
For his transformation into a snake in the film Sssssssnake Dirk spent up to seven hours in makeup and in the final stages of the transformation he had to be carried to the set on a stretcher.
[on "Battlestar Galactica" (2003) ] Women are from Venus. Men are,from Mars. Hamlet does not scan as Hamletta. Nor does Han Solo as Han,Sally. Faceman is not the same as Facewoman. Nor does a Stardoe a,Starbuck make. Men hand out cigars. Women "hand out" babies. And thus,the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.
Men create havoc. But women have the power of procreation, connection to,the continuum of the universe, the creation of world harmony, health,happiness, and order.
I have long held the belief that men must take responsibility for their,ejaculations. But alas, we can only do so if given the chance.
The female decides! The man may do his courting, dance, woo, cavort and,strut his macho stuff. . . but it is the woman who decides.
[on his cameo in The A-Team (2010) ] I regret doing it.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable. .
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