A dramatic actor with an agreeable touch of roguishness in all of his performances, Dirk Benedict graduated from a career on stage in the early 1970s to television stardom as the devil-may-care fighter pilot Starbuck on “Battlestar Galactica” (ABC, 1978-79). He survived the show’s untimely demise and went on to even greater stardom as conman Templeton “Faceman” Peck on “The A-Team” (NBC, 1983-87). Though his star dimmed after the latter series came to a close, Benedict remained busy on American and international television; most notably on a controversial season of the UK’s “Celebrity Big
