George Peppard Jr. (/pəˈpɑːrd/; b. October 1, 1928 – d. May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.
Career[]
Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961),[1] and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad, in the hit 1980s action show The A-Team.
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Death[]
Peppard was a past heavy smoker and reformed alcoholic. As a result, in 1992, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, which included a removal of one of his lungs. Then, on May 8, 1994, he died from pneumonia.