George Peppard Biography
Born: October 01, 1928
Died: May 08, 1994
Though actor George Peppard could have succeeded on his looks alone, he underwent extensive training before making his first TV and Broadway appearances. The son of a building contractor and a singer, Peppard studied acting at Carnegie Tech and the Actor's Studio. His early TV credits include the original 1956 production of Bang the Drum Slowly, in which he sang the title song. He made his film debut in 1957, repeating his Broadway role in Calder_Willingham's +End As a Man, retitled The_Strange_One for the screen. His star continued to ascend in such films as Home From the Hill (1960) with George_Hamilton, and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) as the boyfriend/chronicler of carefree Holly Golightly (Audrey_Hepburn). He was also effective as James_Stewart's son in How the West Was Won (1962), a characterization that required him to age 30 years, and as the Howard Hughes counterpart in The_Carpetbaggers (1963), in which he co-starred with the second of his five wives, Elizabeth_Ashley. In 1978 he made a respectable directorial debut with Five_Days_From_Home, but never followed up on this. A familiar television presence, he starred on the TV series Banacek (1972-1973), Doctors Hospital (1975), and The A-Team (1983-1987), and delivered a powerhouse performance as the title character in the 1974 TV-movie Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Case. Forced to retire because of illness, George Peppard died of cancer in the spring of 1994. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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