Dirk Benedict
Biography
Dirk Benedict is an American actor and author who grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, and graduated from Whitman College in 1967. He made his film debut in Georgia, Georgia in 1972, and after a guest lead on Hawaii Five-O he was cast as the lead in the horror film Sssssss (1973). His breakthrough came in 1978 as Lieutenant Starbuck in the film and television series Battlestar Galactica (1978), and he appeared in Scavenger Hunt (1979). From 1983 he played the con man Templeton Face Peck in the action series The A-Team. In 1987 he took the title role in Hamlet at the Abbey Theatre in Manhattan, a production critics lambasted. Other credits include the television film Trenchcoat in Paradise (1989) and Alaska (1996). In 2000 he wrote and directed Cahoots, his first screenplay. He has also published books, including Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy.
81years old
Turns 82 on March 1in 110 days
- Born Helena
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Dirk Niewoehner (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 53 years1973 to 2026
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Big break
In 1978 Benedict got his career break by playing Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, both the movie and the television series.
Beyond film
In 1987, Benedict played Hamlet, Shakespeare's title role, at the Abbey Theatre in Manhattan. Critics lambasted both his performance and the entire production.
Dirk Benedict movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Eight actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Herbert Jefferson Jr.'s page
Terry Carter's page
Maren Jensen's page
Also two films together2 more actors
- Tony SwartzMission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) and Battlestar Galactica (1978)
- Laurette SpangMission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) and Battlestar Galactica (1978)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.