It flopped and Peppard said "I couldn't get arrested" afterwards. Peppard's next film for MGM was The Subterraneans, an adaptation of the novel by Jack Kerouac. It was a success at the box office, although the film's high cost meant that it was not profitable. Home from the Hill was a prestigious film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, who played Peppard's father. Part of the arrangement of the latter involved signing with MGM for a long term contract. He ended up appearing in Pleasure of His Company for six months before making Home from the Hill. Peppard had signed to play a role on Broadway in The Pleasure of His Company (1958) when he auditioned successfully for MGM's Home from the Hill (1960). He made his film debut in The Strange One (1957). His first work on Broadway led to his first television appearance, with Paul Newman, in The United States Steel Hour (1956), as the singing, guitar-playing baseball player Piney Woods in Bang the Drum Slowly. He worked in summer stock in New England and appeared at the open air Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. He did a variety of jobs to pay his way during this time, such as working as a disc jockey, being a radio station engineer, teaching fencing, driving a taxi and being a mechanic in a motorcycle repair shop. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in the Actors Studio, where he studied the Method with Lee Strasberg. Peppard made his stage debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
He spent a portion of his 1966 honeymoon training to fly his Learjet in Wichita, Kansas. In addition to acting, Peppard was a pilot. He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1955. ĭuring 19, he studied civil engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps July 8, 1946, and rose to the rank of corporal, leaving the Corps at the end of his enlistment in January 1948. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan in 1946. was born October 1, 1928, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of building contractor George Peppard, Sr. 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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On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek.
Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). ( / p ə ˈ p ɑr d / October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor. Linda Evans and Peppard in TV's Banacek (1974)
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