Who is Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner; March 1, 1945) is an American film, television and stage actor, philosopher and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series and Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.Early lifeBenedict was born Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Priscilla Mella (née Metzger), an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from Whitman College in 1967.Benedict allegedly chose his stage name from a serving of Eggs Benedict he had prior to his acting career. He is of German extraction.CareerBe...
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Chicagonas1999: original battlestar galactica cast - then (1978) vs now (2023)
Cellytron: lol wtf just woke up from dream in which i described dirk benedict as “so good looking it actually kind of hurts.”
Leman_jason: as a kid of the 80s, dirk benedict was a cool as shit dude that doesn't get talked enough! (a team battlestar galactica!
Blackbirdcd: new video! drawing a battlestar galactica viper and my story about meeting dirk benedict. video:
Thedirkbot: dirk benedict from verytazium is sitting behind you... go on, check!
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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