Dirk Benedict » Trivia

Dirk is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

Helped write the 'love scene' between his and Patsy Kensit's character in Blue Tornado (1991).

Divorced from actress Toni Hudson in 1995, he received custody of his boys, George and Roland. He took them home to Montana where he raised them in a 900-square-foot log cabin on his macrobiotic diet.

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

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.

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).

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

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