George Peppard
Birthday:
Birthplace:
Not Available
Though actor George Peppard could have succeeded on his looks alone, he underwent extensive training before making his first TV and Broadway appearances. The son of a building contractor and a singer, Peppard studied acting at Carnegie Tech and the Actor's Studio. His early TV credits include the original 1956 production of Bang the Drum Slowly, in which he sang the title song. He made his film debut in 1957, repeating his Broadway role in Calder Willingham's End As a Man, retitled The Strange One for the screen. His star continued to ascend in such films as Home From the Hill (1960) with George Hamilton, and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) as the boyfriend/chronicler of carefree Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn). He was also effective as James Stewart's son in How the West Was Won (1962), a characterization that required him to age 30 years, and as the Howard Hughes counterpart in The Carpetbaggers (1963), in which he co-starred with the second of his five wives, Elizabeth Ashley. In 1978 he made a respectable directorial debut with Five Days From Home, but never followed up on this. A familiar television presence, he starred on the TV series Banacek (1972-1973), Doctors Hospital (1975), and The A-Team (1983-1987), and delivered a powerhouse performance as the title character in the 1974 TV-movie Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Case. Forced to retire because of illness, George Peppard died of cancer in the spring of 1994.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | Hit Man |
|
— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Tigress |
|
— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Night of the Fox |
|
— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders |
|
— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Silence Like Glass |
|
— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Target Eagle |
|
— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Race for the Yankee Zephyr |
|
— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Your Ticket is No Longer Valid |
|
— | 1981 |
50% | Battle Beyond the Stars |
|
— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Torn Between Two Lovers |
|
— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | From Hell to Victory |
|
— | 1979 |
44% | Damnation Alley |
|
— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Newman's Law |
|
— | 1974 |
33% | The Groundstar Conspiracy |
|
— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Bravos |
|
— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | One More Train To Rob |
|
— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Cannon for Cordoba |
|
— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Executioner |
|
— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | What's So Bad About Feeling Good? |
|
— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Violence à Jericho |
|
— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Tobruk |
|
— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | The Blue Max |
|
— | 1966 |
75% | Operation Crossbow |
|
— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | The Third Day |
|
— | 1965 |
33% | The Carpetbaggers |
|
— | 1964 |
20% | The Victors |
|
— | 1963 |
86% | How the West Was Won |
|
— | 1963 |
89% | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
|
— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | The Subterraneans |
|
— | 1960 |
90% | Home from the Hill |
|
— | 1960 |
83% | Pork Chop Hill |
|
— | 1959 |
40% | The Strange One |
|
— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Bang the Drum Slowly |
|
— | 1956 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
|
|
|
No Score Yet |
Matlock
1986-1995
|
|
|
No Score Yet |
The A-Team
1983-1987
|
|
|
No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
|
|
|
No Score Yet |
Tales of the Unexpected
1979-1988
|
|
|
Quotes from George Peppard's Characters
Holly Golightly: | No, no, you disapprove of me. And I will not accept drinks from gentlemen who disapprove of me. I'll pay for my own whiskey and don't you forget it! |
Paul Varjak: | Holly... |
Holly Golightly: | I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen. Especially not from disapproving gentlemen who are kept by the ladies. So take it. You should be used to taking money from ladies by now. |
Holly Golightly: | How do I look? |
Paul Varjak: | Very good. I must say, I'm amazed. |
Denton: | Don't go making something personal out of this. Perry is dead. That doesn't make you right and me wrong. It just means Perry is dead. |
Paul Varjak: | : You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. [takes out the ring and throws it in Holly's lap] |
Paul Varjak: | You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.' You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. [takes out the ring and throws it in Holly's lap] |
Paul Varjak: | You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.' You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. [takes out the ring and throws it in Holly's lap] |
Holly Golightly: | Here. I've been carrying this thing around for months. I don't want it anymore. |
Holly Golightly: | He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's. |
Paul Varjak: | Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store. |
Holly Golightly: | That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's! |
Paul Varjak: | You know what's wrong with you, miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.' You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. |
Paul Varjak: | People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness. |
Paul Varjak: | And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. |
O.J. Berman: | Hey, Fred-baby! |
Paul Varjak: | No, no. It's Paul-baby. |