Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck (played by Dirk Benedict)
Has the most complicated (and conflicting) bios of all the Team members. Birth date (according to "Trial by Fire") is supposedly December 7, 1950. However, this seems highly unlikely so I don't put much weight in that fact. Social Security #522-70-5444.
He was orphaned when he was approximately 4 years old. He is mentioned as living at two different orphanages: Sacred Heart (run by Father Magill, mentioned in early AT episodes) and Angel's Guardian (mentioned in "Beneath the Surface"). The AT books mention two other names (St. Mary's and St. Bartholomew's), but I don't take the novels as cannon and it seems the author probably just made that up.
Peck may have been transferred from Sacred Heart to Angel's Guardian when he was in his early teens.
He went to college where he met Leslie Bektall, who ended up leaving him and leaving school in fact to become a nun ("The Only Chrch in Town"). That would be in 1968, according to the fact that he states in the episode it happened 15 years ago. He then begins his career in the Army. Now, TAT was supposedly part of the Fifth Special Forces Group. Generally these Special Forces groups are trained at Fort Bragg and have on average 3 years of military service behind them...therefore it seems we have many to assume that he either showed exceptional abilities and advanced much quicker than usual through the system or he conned his way into Special Forces. We don't know of anything about exactly when and how he ended up on TAT, although BA points out once that if Hannibal hadn't put Face into his unit in 'Nam (and thereby under his protective custody) he'd most likely be in jail already. so we can assume he was acting as a con man from early in life.
In the 5th season episode "Family Reunion", we also learn that Face's father was actually a man named "A.J. Bancroft", a man who was a wanted criminal for being involved in some sort of government conspiracy years before. His original birthname according to A.J. was "Richard". It also turned out he had a half-sister named Ellen. |
