Dirk Benedict

format_quote I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

stars  Earned a B.A. in theatre from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

stars  Has three sons: John born in 1968, and two younger sons with Toni are George born in 1988 and Roland born in 1991.

stars  After raising his two boys, his comeback actually began in Germany after he appeared at a sci-fi convention in Bonn. A writer-director there saw him and cast him in the German movie Goldene Zeiten (2006).

stars  A prostate cancer survivor. In 1974, medical doctors recommended surgery, but he claimed to have cured his cancer through a macrobiotic diet recommended by Gloria Swanson, his co-star on Broadway in "Butterflies Are Free," and by exercise and fasting. Over a period of 3 years and under the guidance of Michio Kushi, according to his book Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy, beat the cancer. He continues the diet to this day.

stars  Being cast directed his first short Christina's Dream (1994) in 1994.