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4 unusual facts about George Peppard


Christine Belford

Christine Belford's feature-length films include Christine (1983), the Paul Newman film Pocket Money (1972), the George Peppard film The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), and the straight-to-video 1986 film The Ladies Club, where she played a doctor who aided a rape-victim vigilante group by castrating the rapists captured by the women.

Christine Belford is best known for her portrayal of exasperated insurance investigator Carlie Kirkland during the second season (1973–74) of the George Peppard TV series Banacek.

Drayton Boucher

Jesse Boucher was the father of three daughters, including actresses Sherry Boucher (born 1945), now a Bossier Parish real estate agent once married to the late George Peppard, and Savannah Smith Boucher, who is also a producer.

Melinda Culea

Reportedly, star George Peppard did not like a female lead being part of the show, and made his feelings quite clear.


Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn

In 1961, Givenchy designed a little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard.

L. P. Davies

Davies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X and The Alien (1968) was very freely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin.

Leo Gordon

Among the most notable feature films he wrote were You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson and Tobruk (1967) starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard and directed by Arthur Hiller, in which he appeared as Sergeant Krug.

Savannah Smith Boucher

Her younger sister, Sherry Boucher, is a former actress who was the third wife of the late actor George Peppard.

The Strange One

The cast includes Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Pat Hingle, Geoffrey Horne, James Olson, and Larry Gates, some of them members of the original cast of the stage version.


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