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George Peppard: Biography
Peppard was born in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of an opera singer and a building contractor. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He attended Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Actor's Studio, where one of his classmates was Rip Torn.
Before
the A-Team, Peppard had the leading role in the TV series Banacek (1972 - 1974), (part of the NBC Mystery Movie
series of the 1970s), and played in Doctor's Hospital, in 1975, and in several other television films, which became in the later part of his career his major dedication.
Married 5 times, and the father of three children, Peppard's second wife was actress
Elizabeth Ashley, his co-star in "The Carpetbaggers".
The "A-Team" star was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992, and had part of a lung removed.
He was a recovering alcoholic, who spent his later years trying to help others in the same situation.
Peppard died on May 8, 1994, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles due to complications in the treatment of the cancer he was suffering from.
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