# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-benedict
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:17:38.991Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-benedict"
name: "Dirk Benedict"
slug: "dirk-benedict"
description: "Dirk Benedict is an American actor and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series and Templeton \"Face\" Peck in The A-Team television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing."
tagline: "American actor (b. 1945)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1945-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump