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The A-Team

1983

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

J.A. Preston

James Allen Preston Sr. (born November 13, 1932) is an American actor. Preston is best known for his role as Ozzie Cleveland on the NBC primetime television series Hill Street Blues which originally aired from 1981 until 1987. Preston was born November 13 (1932) in Washington, D.C. In addition to his role on Hill Street Blues, Preston is also known for his roles as Leo Daltry in Dallas, Richard Matthews in Santa Barbara, court-martial judge Col. J. A. Randolph, USMC in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, and the minor but important role of a USAF Major General in Air Force One (1997). He was a series regular in the short-lived CBS sitcom All's Fair which ran just one season (1976-77). In it he played an assistant to conservative newspaper columnist Richard Barrington (played by Richard Crenna). Preston also appeared on the NBC television series The A-Team as a judge (Col. Thomas Milo) presiding over a military tribunal convened to try the A-Team. He also appeared in 3 episodes of Martin as Gina’s (Tisha Campbell-Martin) father Dr. Cliff Waters.

Anita Brown

Anita Brown is a Canadian actress and former professional model best known for her roles in high-profile feature films like The A-Team (2010), Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018).

Corey Michael Eubanks

While training for a Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Southern California, Corey was discovered in his gym and cast to play the role of a young boxer in the feature film The Sting II (1983) for Universal Pictures. Intrigued by the entertainment industry, Corey spent the next four years perfecting his craft as a professional stuntman on the television show The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). Soon Corey's talents as a stuntman were in demand, and he began working on several other action shows such as The A-Team (1983), Hunter (1967), and The Fall Guy (1981). Throughout his twenty-year career, Corey has kept extremely busy working as one of Hollywood's top professional stuntmen.

Nicolette Scorsese

Nicolette Scorsese is an American actress. Scorsese first began her career as a model. Her first television role was in the action series The A-Team in 1985. Her feature film debut came the following year in the B-movie horror thriller Velvet Dreams - When Dreams Turn Deadly. Her best-known role was in the 1989 Christmas classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as lingerie saleswoman Mary. In the 1990s, she appeared in a number of episodic roles, including New York Cops - NYPD Blue and Emergency Room. She also had a small role in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's thriller Boxing Helena alongside Julian Sands, Bill Paxton and Art Garfunkel. She is not related to Martin Scorsese.

Walter Gotell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979). Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel). Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Titos Vandis

Cast · Known for The Exorcist

Titos Vandis (7 November 1917 – 23 February 2003) was a Greek actor. Vandis began his career on the Greek stage in the late 1930s. In 1962, he won the Best Actor award for the film Poliorkia at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Vandis left Greece when a dictatorship took power and lived in the United States for 24 years. Vandis appeared in over 250 plays before making his Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Vandis was in the original Broadway cast and led the title song in Illya Darling (1967), a musical based on his film Never on Sunday (1960). The title character Illya was a carefree Greek prostitute. Newsday critic George Oppenheimer wrote, "Major credit goes to Titos Vandis for his playing of Illya's oldest client, who sings and dances as rousingly as the youngsters ..." Vandis reprised his role in a Westbury Music Fair production in 1968. Newsday critic Murry Frymer wrote that Vandis "... is delightfully authentic. In fact, he's better than that. Vandis has been in both the film Never on Sunday and the Broadway production of Illya Darling and he's not tired of it at all. His portrayal was fresh and kept bringing the affair back to the colorful gayety that bubbled through the motion picture." In 1970 Vandis joined the cast of Man of La Mancha as Sancho Panza at the Martin Beck Theater. He also played the title role in the musical Zorba at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. Critic W. C. Flahault wrote, "His portrayal of the Greek vagabond with an eye for the girls has an earthiness which brings reality to the role." In 1972 Vandis played an uneducated coal miner on Ironside who sought Ironside's help in discovering the murderer of his daughter. He admitted "that drama was easier for him than the musical stage." Vandis said, "I suppose this part can be considered a change of pace for me, but as an actor, I find myself considering each role I play as a separate entity ... During the days of my early training, I often played old men; in fact, I relished the opportunities. Today, of course, as I grow older, I wish the positions were reversed!" That same year, he appeared in the Woody Allen film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) as Milos Stavros, an Armenian shepherd who was in love with a sheep. In The Exorcist (1973), he played the uncle of protagonist Father Damien Karras. Vandis wore a hat in one shot that obscured his face, as director William Friedkin felt that Vandis's face would be connected with his previous role as Milos. Vandis had a recurring role in the detective series Baretta (1975-1978), having appeared in four episodes, and guest-starred alongside Hulk Hogan in The A-Team episode "Body Slam" (1985-1986 season). His other TV appearances have included The Flying Nun, Trapper John, M.D., M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple, Kojak, Barney Miller, Wonder Woman, Newhart, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Titos Vandis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Matuszak

John Daniel Tooz Matuszak was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League and also an actor. Matuszak was born in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Tampa and played for their football team. Matuszak also played for the Houston Oilers of the NFL and joined the Houston Texans of the World Football League, but never played for them. His first major role as an actor was in the 1979 movie "North Dallas Forty" as a football player. He also appeared in the movies "Caveman", "The Ice Pirates", and "One Crazy Summer" but is known for his role in "The Goonies". He also had guest appearances on popular TV shows "Perfect Strangers", "M*A*S*H", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Hunter", "Silver Spoons", "The A-Team", "1st & Ten", "Miami Vice" and "Cheers". He died on June 17, 1989 aged 38 due to a heart failure.

Dwight Schultz

Cast · Known for The A-Team, Ben 10, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

William Dwight Schultz is an American television, stage and voice actor best known for playing the eccentric Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team and the socially anxious Lieutenant Reginald Barclay across the Star Trek franchise. He is also well known in Animation as the Mad Scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series and Chef Mung Daal in the children's cartoon Chowder.

Kavi Raz

Cast · Known for Pet Sematary, St. Elsewhere

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kavi Raz is an Indian-born British actor, writer, director and producer. Born in Punjab, Raz left India at a young age for the United Kingdom, where he grew up. He acquired national prominence as an exceptional hockey player in the Midlands. He attended university in the San Francisco Bay area. Raz was a founder and artistic director of The Wandering Players Theater Company. The Company staged several World and US premieres of plays from India. Western audiences were exposed to the works of Rabindranath Tagore for the first time, in addition to plays like Sakharam Binder and Shakuntala. This was the first professional South Asian theatre company in the USA. In the mid-seventies, Raz arrived in Hollywood: a career as an actor was unheard of at a time when roles for South Asian actors in Hollywood television shows and films were limited. Raz had been quoted: “People, especially friends and relatives scoffed at the idea of my becoming an actor. They thought it was a passing fancy and would soon be over. But no, I had a dream and take what it may I journeyed on to make my dream a reality.” He became the first ever South Asian actor to be signed on as a regular in a major TV series, St Elsewhere. He was a cast member for the first two seasons of the medical drama, and after being let go continued to appear on a recurring basis. Raz has appeared in over 200 plays, TV shows and films, including guest appearances on The A-Team, M*A*S*H and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1978, Raz founded the production company, K.R. Films Hollywood. Its debut, Lehren - a television weekly variety series for the Asian audience - was shown throughout the United States and Canada. In 1988, K.R. Studios was built in Granada Hills. Housing several buildings including the main studio, it has state-of-art equipment for film and television productions, as well as a multi-track recording facility for post production and recording needs. The studio is now home to many award winning producers, writers and directors engaged in the production of commercials, TV programmes, music videos and films. Raz began his career as a filmmaker with The Gold Bracelet, a movie about a Sikh man faced with the realities of post-9/11. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kavi Raz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jack Ging

Cast · Known for Mannix, The A-Team

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Lee Ging (born November 30, 1931, in Alva in Woods County in northwestern Oklahoma) is an American actor best known for his role as General Harlan 'Bull' Fullbright in the NBC television series The A-Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Ging, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lonny Chapman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lonny Chapman (October 1, 1920 – October 12, 2007) was an American television actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on detective dramas, including Quincy, M.E., The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared as a guest star on the CBS adventure/drama Harbourmaster, starring Barry Sullivan, and on the same network's anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. He guest starred too in several episodes of NBC's McCloud, which starred his long-time friend Dennis Weaver, whom Chapman had originally urged to go into show business. He also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke opposite Dennis Weaver. In 1966, he appeared in the episode "Lone Woman" of Barry Sullivan's NBC western series, The Road West. In 1977, Chapman appeared in the episode "The Waterhole" of the short-lived Rod Taylor western series The Oregon Trail on NBC. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lonny Chapman, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kai Wulff

Cast · Known for MacGyver

Kai Wulff (born December 18, 1949) is a German-born American actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known as Lt. Colonel Yuri Voskov in Firefox or as the German in ¡Three Amigos!. He has also appeared in the films Twilight Zone: The Movie, ¡Three Amigos!, Oscar, Top Dog, Assassins and has guest-starred in several television series, such as The A-Team, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Street Hawk and Days of Our Lives. Because he is German-American, he has tended to play mostly Europeans. Recently he has appeared as a voice actor in video games, such as Captain America: Super Soldier, in which he voices Baron Strucker. Occasionally he also provides voices for German dubbings of American films including Al Pacino in Scarface and Robin Williams in Man of the Year.

Dirk Benedict

Cast · Known for The A-Team

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dirk Benedict  (born Dirk Niewoehner; March 1, 1945) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dirk Benedict, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Bobby Di Cicco

Bobby Di Cicco is an American actor. He has starred in several films since the 1970s, but has mostly been involved in television work such as The A-Team. His early work includes the film 1941 by Steven Spielberg, in which he plays one of the main characters, 'Wally Stephens'. He also had a part in Samuel Fullers movie, The Big Red One, where he played a young private in the first squad. He was again a private in the 1990 comedy A Man Called Sarge. Bobby also gets credit for the classic line from the 1982 film Night Shift by Ron Howard, "Barney Rubble, what an actor". He had a major role co-starring with Michael Pare in the 1984 sci-fi cult film The Philadelphia Experiment. He is the father of actress Jessica Di Cicco.

Sharlto Copley

Cast · Known for Chappie, Heads of State

Sharlto Copley (born November 27, 1973) is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9 and H. M. Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharlto Copley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michael O'Herlihy

Director · Known for Hawaii Five-O, The A-Team

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael O'Herlihy (April 1, 1929 - June 16, 1997) was an Irish television producer and director who directed shows like Gunsmoke (1955), Maverick (1957), Star Trek (1965), Hawaii Five-O (1968), M*A*S*H (1972) and The A-Team (1983). Born in Dublin, Ireland, O'Herlihy was the younger brother of actor Dan O'Herlihy. O'Herlihy died in Dublin, Ireland on June 16, 1997 at age 68. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael O'Herlihy,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sidney Hayers

Director · Known for Knight Rider

Sidney Hayers (24 August 1921 – 8 February 2000) was a British film and television director, writer and producer. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, among his most acclaimed films were Circus of Horrors (1960), The Trap (1966) and the occult thriller Night of the Eagle (1962). In British TV, his credits included The Persuaders! and The New Avengers; he later directed several American TV shows, including episodes of Magnum, P.I., The A-Team, Knight Rider, T. J. Hooker, Baywatch and The Famous Five. Hayers died of cancer in 2000 in Altea, Spain, survived by his wife, the actress Erika Remberg. He had two children, Susan and Robert from his first marriage, to Patricia.

Shozo Iizuka

Shozo Iizuka (飯塚 昭三, Iizuka Shozo) was a Japanese voice actor from Fukushima. He graduated from the fine arts department of Nihon University. He was most known for the roles of Hakaider (Android Kikaider), Doctor Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot series), 38 out of 50 Vader Monsters (Denshi Sentai Denjiman), Ryu Jose (Mobile Suit Gundam), Heart (Fist of the North Star), Happosai Ueda (Nintama Rantarou), Nappa (Dragon Ball Z) and Sergeant Bosco Albert "B.A." Baracus (Japanese dub of The A-Team). He played major villain roles in the first eight Metal Hero Series.

Carole Cook

Cast · Known for Home on the Range

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carole Cook (January 14, 1924 - January 11, 2023) was an American actress. She appeared in many theatrical productions, in films and on television. Born as Mildred Frances Cook, she was a protege of Lucille Ball. Ball gave her the stage name of "Carole", after her friend Carole Lombard because, Ball reportedly told Cook, "you have the same healthy disrespect for everything in general". Cook appeared regularly on two of her shows, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Ball was matron of honor at Cook's wedding in 1964 to actor Tom Troupe. Cook starred in the animated Disney film Home on the Range, as the voice of Pearl Gesner, the farmer of Patch of Heaven. She appeared in such feature films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles, Grandview, U.S.A., American Gigolo and Summer Lovers. Her first film role was in Palm Springs Weekend. She made guest appearances on such TV shows as The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Dynasty, Charlie's Angels , on a fourth season 1985 episode of The A-Team called "Members Only", and, more recently, on Grey's Anatomy. In 1976, she appeared as a bullying nurse in an episode of Emergency! in which Johnny Gage is injured by a hit-and-run driver. In 2006, she appeared as an elderly patient on the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy (episode 14 "Tell Me Sweet Little Lies", season two). In addition to her film and television work, Cook appeared in the original Broadway productions of 42nd Street and Romantic Comedy and was the second actress (after Carol Channing) to star as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!. Cook also appeared as Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of The Three Penny Opera starring Lotte Lenya and is the only actress to star in major productions of both Mame and Auntie Mame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carole Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

James Darren

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   James William Ercolani (June 8, 1936 - September 2, 2024), known by his stage name James Darren, was an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. He wanted to be an actor and studied in New York City with Stella Adler for a number of years. He would also occasionally sing although he later said "I wasn't really a singer. I was a kid in Philly whose dad would take him to bars and nightclubs and I would get up and sing two songs." Darren was discovered by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick after he got some photographs taken by Maurice Seymour to show potential agents: His secretary, a woman by the name of Yvonne Bouvier, "asked me if I was interested in getting into film. I said yeah, I was. She said I know someone you should meet. She set up a meeting between me and Joyce Selznick, who worked for Screen Gems. Joyce brought me over to Columbia Pictures about a week later and got me a contract there." Columbia signed Darren to a long term contract in July 1956. A few weeks later, he was filming his first film, Rumble on the Docks. His appearance was well received and he got a lot of fan mail - second at the studio only to Kim Novak. Darren guest starred on an episode of TV's The Web ("Kill and Run") then Columbia gave him a support role in an "A" picture, the comedy Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon. He had support roles in two films directed by Phil Karlson: The Brothers Rico and Gunman's Walk. In between he was in The Tijuana Story, although his role was relatively small. Darren was third billed in the surf film, Gidget. He also sang the title track. The film was a hit with teen audiences and so was the song. Darren wound up recording a string of pop hits for Colpix Records, the biggest of which was "Goodbye Cruel World". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Another sizeable hit was "Her Royal Majesty". He is also featured in one of the Scopitone series of pop music video jukebox films ("Because You're Mine"). Darren was third billed in a series of films for Columbia: The Gene Krupa Story, All the Young Men, and Let No Man Write My Epitaph. He had a cameo as himself in a teen film, Because They're Young, singing the title track. Darren had a supporting role in the World War II film The Guns of Navarone. Also popular was Gidget Goes Hawaiian, where Darren reprised his role as Moondoggie; he was given top billing. Darren also acted in Diamond Head as well as a third time in Gidget Goes to Rome, which he sang the title track for, Under the Yum Yum Tree. In 1963, Darren signed a seven picture deal with Universal, starting with The Lively Set. He was the singing voice of Yogi Bear in the animated film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, on the song "Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a". He was the singing voice of his own character "Jimmy Darrock" on an episode of The Flintstones. However the character's dialogue was provided by voice actor Lennie Weinrib. He subsequently launched a career as a director, notably of action-based series , including Hunter, The A-Team, Silk Stalkings, Renegade, and Nowhere Man, as well as dramas such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Darren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michael St. John Smith

Cast · Known for Shooter

Michael St. John Smith is a Canadian actor and writer based in Toronto, whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly confirmed in major sources. He graduated from Harvard University with honours in English Literature and has been active since 1993, accumulating over 98 film and television credits. He is also a playwright and screenwriting instructor, having authored four stage plays — including the Jessie-nominated Slaying Dragons, The Biz, and The Bridge (co-written with Michele Riml, produced as a CBC podcast) — with his fourth, The Cull, premiering at the Arts Club in Toronto in January 2023. He has also written commissioned screenplays, including an adaptation of Ivan Coyote's novel Bow Grip (Telefilm Canada) and the sci-fi feature Archangel, co-written with William Gibson. His most notable film credits include USR Attorney #2 in I, Robot (2004, with Will Smith), Pentagon General in The Core (2003, with Stellan Skarsgård and Sienna Guillory), FBI Director Brandt in Shooter (2007, with Bryan Cranston and Emily VanCamp), an FBI Agent in Blade: Trinity (2004), Charles Bannister in The Final Cut (2004, with Robin Williams), Margaret's Lawyer in Big Eyes (2014, with Timothy Hutton and Alicia Vikander), and Auction Bidder in Fifty Shades Darker (2017). On television he is best known as Coach Kleats in Riverdale (2018–2020, 3 episodes, CW), Mike Kennedy in The Dead Zone (2002, 7 episodes), with additional credits in Smallville (2002, 2010), Andromeda (2004), The Flash (2015), Yellowjackets (2025), Da Vinci's Inquest (1999–2005), The X-Files (1993, 1996, uncredited), The Outer Limits (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999), Millennium (1996), Psych (2007), The A-Team (2010), Witches of East End (2013), Continuum (2014), Somewhere Between (2017, 6 episodes), The Good Doctor (2017), UnREAL (2018), and Fire Country (2024).

Omari Hardwick

Cast · Known for Kick-Ass

Omari Hardwick (born January 9, 1974) is an American actor, known for his roles in the TV series Saved and Dark Blue as well in the movies Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, The A-Team, Kick-Ass, and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls.

Lenore Kasdorf

​Lenore Kasdorf (born July 23, 1948) is an American actress.She has since appeared on the soaps Santa Barbara and Days of our Lives, as well as a number of films (her most prominent film role costarring with Chuck Norris in 1984's Missing in Action). She also had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom Coach. Her television credits also include guest-starring roles on The A-Team, Knight Rider, Murder She Wrote, Barnaby Jones, 21 Jump Street, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills, 90210, and the science fiction drama Babylon 5. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lenore Kasdorf , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.