Dirk Benedict
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
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 (on a dare) in a college
production of "Showboat" where he got the main part. His father, a
lawyer, died when Dirk was 18, which was hard for him to take. While
working on
Georgia, Georgia (1972) in
Sweden, he made the first contact with a macrobiotic diet and changed
his eating habits drastically. He was 26 at that time. A few years
later, doctors found that he had cancer of the prostate. He refused to
accept the usual treatment and moved away to a secluded cottage. Dirk
managed to cure himself from cancer by following the rules of his
macrobiotic diet. When he got his part as "Starbuck" in
Battlestar Galactica (1978),
the doctors stated that he was in good health. Dirk's main successes
were "Battlestar Galactica" and
The A-Team (1983) in which he
played "Templeton - The Face - Peck". He was formerly married to
actress Toni Hudson and has two sons (George
and Roland).
