Dirk Benedict

Actor Dirk Benedict played the womanizing, cigar-smoking, card playing and incredibly skilled Colonial Warrior known as Lieutenant Starbuck in the Original Battlestar Galactica series.

After the series was cancelled, he made an appearance on the final episode of "Galactica 1980", entitled "The Return of Starbuck". This episode is considered by fans of the Original Series as the only significant contribution from "Galactica 1980", a show otherwise considered noncanonical by many.

After these series, Benedict found popularity again as the character of Templeton "Face" Peck on the long-running early-1980s TV series, "The A-Team", produced by "Galactica"'s owner, Universal. In the show's opening credits in later seasons, a Cylon Warrior is shown walking by Benedict's character, who gives an peculiarly humorous look of recognition of the robot as an in-joke to the actor's past role as Starbuck.

As casting for the Singer/DeSanto Continuation Project of a new "Battlestar Galactica" series in 2001 began, Benedict was slated to play an older Starbuck in the new series. However, the project folder due to time committments by Bryan Singer

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Original Series definition: an all-purpose term for Colonial soldier and Viper pilot (see: Warrior)