Peppard, George

1928 – An actor was born on the 1st day of October this year in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He had a fascination with boxing early in life.

1949 – He made his stage debut at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. He then enrolled in The Actors Studio in New York.

1954 – He married his first wife Helen Davies this year but separated after ten years of marriage.

1956 - His first work on Broadway led to his first television appearance, with a young Paul Newman, in The United States Steel Hour.

1957 – His film debut was his starring role in the movie “The Strange One”.

1958 – His Broadway appearance in "The Pleasure of His Company" led to a MGM contract.

1961 - He secured a major role early in his career when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany in this year. 

1966 – He played the role of a strong military role as German pilot Bruno Stachel, an obsessively competitive officer pilot from humble beginnings who challenges the Prussian aristocracy during World War I in The Blue Max.

1970 – In Western, Cannon for Cordoba, in which he played the steely Captain Rod Douglas, who has been put in charge of gathering a group of soldiers to take part in a dangerous mission into Mexico.

1975 - He appeared in Doctors' Hospital this year.

1979 - Still interested in film, but with film roles becoming increasingly uninteresting, he acted in, directed, and produced the drama "Five Days from Home".

1980 - He is probably best known for his role as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in the television show The A-Team, where he is the cigar-chomping leader of a renegade commando squad.

1992 – He married his fifth and last wife named Laura Taylor, the couple stayed together until his death.

1994 – He died of Pneumonia on the 8th day of May this year in Los Angeles, California at age 65.