George Peppard

George Peppard, born in Detroit on 1 October 1928 and dead on 8 May 1994, was an American actor. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948, studied engineering at Purdue University, and took his bachelor's degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1955 after turning to acting. His major film role was the struggling writer Paul Varjak opposite Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and he later played a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television he starred as the insurance investigator Thomas Banacek in Banacek and as Colonel John Hannibal Smith, leader of a renegade commando squad, in The A-Team. He won a National Board of Review award for Home from the Hill and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.