Montana Entertainers by D'Ambrosio Brian;

Author:D'Ambrosio, Brian;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

White Sulphur Springs’ Dirk Benedict is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton “Faceman” Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. Courtesy Dirk Benedict.

A memorable scoundrel with a fondness for card games and the ladies, Starbuck was the most skilled pilot in the Galactica fleet. Benedict’s good looks and self-belittling sense of humor made for a memorable character. The show was canceled in 1979. After Galactica, Benedict appeared in many forgettable features and programs before landing his most popular part as Templeton “Faceman” Peck on The A-Team. The show, which turned Mr. T. into a household consonant, was a cartoon-like action series about four Vietnam veterans who worked as honorable soldiers for hire. “If the ‘A-Team’ was about anything,” said Benedict, “it was about people standing up for themselves and having control of their own lives.”

The A-Team brought Benedict sizeable attention during its four-year run but sank in the ratings in its fifth season. Benedict returned to episodic television. Since then, he has made his big-screen directorial debut and participated in Bring Back…The A-Team, a documentary that reacquainted the surviving members of the series. Benedict made a cameo in the action-comedy adaptation of The A-Team (2010), featuring Bradley Cooper as his former character.

These days, Benedict can be seen at comic book and collectibles shows from coast to coast. Because Benedict had reportedly made White Sulphur Springs out to be a hick town in a few interviews, he has a few detractors. “After all, I’d come from a town that had no TV or movie theater, where we used kerosene lamps and outhouses. And here I am attending operas and accepting invitations to dinner at the homes of very sophisticated people,” Benedict once said. These comments reportedly raised some hackles in White Sulphur Springs.

Nonetheless, his intensely Montanan attitude to live simply has remained untouched by time and travel. “I’ve been fortunate to have lived a marvelous life,” said Benedict, who splits his time between Kalispell, the West Coast and visiting his mother, who still lives in White Sulphur Springs. “Coming from Montana, it’s been a long, long, long journey. Miracles happen in funny ways.”

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