I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

He grew up in White Sulphur Springs Montana. Both his performance and the entire production were drubbed by critics. The producers of a horror film called Ssssss saw Benedict's performance in Hawaii Five-O and promptly cast him as the lead in that movie.

Dirk Benedict (born March 1 1945) is an American movie television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.