Dirk Benedict was born in Montana on March 1st, 1945. He was raised in the country, far away from anything connected with movies or acting. He gathered his first experiences in acting (on a dare) in a college production of Showboat where he got the main part. His father, a lawyer, died when Dirk was 18, which was hard for him to take. While working at Georgia, Georgia in Sweden, he made the first contact with a macrobiotic diet and changed his eating habits drastically. He was 26 at that tim ...[Read Story]