Title: The A-Team
Content:  Although the part of Face was written by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell with Dirk Benedict in mind, NBC insisted that the part should be played by another actor. Therefore, in the pilot, Face was portrayed by Tim Dunigan, who was later replaced by Benedict, with the comment that Dunigan was "too tall and too young". According to Dunigan: "I look even younger on camera than I am. So it was difficult to accept me as a veteran of the Vietnam War, which ended when I was a sophomore in high school." Tia Carrere was intended to join the principal cast of the show in its fifth season after appearing in the season four finale, providing a tie 
Title: The A-Team (film)
Content:  In a post credits scene, original series actors Dirk Benedict (Face) and Dwight Schultz (Murdock) have cameos with their film equivalents Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley. Benedict plays Face's fellow tanning bed client, credited as "Pensacola Prisoner Milt," and Schultz plays the German neurologist who examines Murdock.
Title: The A-Team
Content:   The A-Team revolves around the four members of a former commando outfit, now mercenaries. Their leader is Lieutenant Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (George Peppard), whose plans tend to be unorthodox, but effective. Lieutenant Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict; Tim Dunigan appeared as Templeton Peck in the pilot), usually called "Face" or "Faceman", is a smooth-talking con man who serves as the team's appropriator of vehicles and other useful items, as well as the team's second-in-command. The team's pilot is Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz), who has been declared insane and lives in a Veterans' Affairs mental institution for the show's first four seasons. Finally, there is 
Title: Mexican Slayride
Content:  The part of Face, best known as being played by Dirk Benedict throughout the series, is played in the pilot by actor Tim Dunigan. The episode originally had no introductory theme and credits like later episodes of The A-Team, but in syndication, the season 1 introduction is tagged on, with a segment depicting Tim Dunigan as Face replacing the part of Dirk Benedict. The DVD boxset of season 1 features the pilot in its original version, without introduction.
Title: List of The A-Team characters
Content: Jessica Biel as Captain Charissa Sosa (2010) ; Charissa Sosa is Face's former lover, who left him after he became serious about their relationship, though through interaction in the film it becomes apparent that she told people in the interim that he was the one who left. Sosa returns three years later as a DCIS captain and warns Face not to steal the plates used to manufacture currency. Deeply angered when his defiance leads to her demotion to first lieutenant, Sosa pursues the team for the majority of the film. In the film's dénouement, she is promoted once again to captain. Angered by her superior arresting the A-Team for breaking out of prison to clear their names, she kisses Face and sneaks a key into his mouth for them to escape. Brian Bloom as 
Title: The A-Team (season 4)
Content:  Teresa, at the end of Season 2's "The Only Church in Town" (as previous version). ; A cylon walking past cases Face to double take in the Season 2 episode "Steel" (as previous version). ; Face and a guest at Face's scam film opening in Season 2's feature-length two-part episode "When You Comin' Back Range Rider?" (as previous version). ; Face fires his gun, looks behind him, and smiles in the Season 3 episode "The Bells of St. Mary's" (as previous version). ; A shot of Face, while trying to con mobster Crazy Tommy T from the Season 2 episode "Steel" (as previous version). ; A 
Title: Templeton Peck
Content:  In the 2010 film, Peck is played by Bradley Cooper. Like B.A., Hannibal, and Murdock, he has an Army Ranger tattoo (on his right arm). As in the TV series, Face is depicted as a handsome, smooth-talking ladies' man, but is also shown having a relationship with Captain Charissa Sosa (Jessica Biel), who pursues the A-Team after they escape from prison. Throughout the film, Face matures from a womanizing joker to a calculating professional - to the point that, in the film's climax, he, not Hannibal, plans the A-Team's legal redemption. Face plans the mission based on a classic confidence game including cranes and shipping crates, and involving Murdock being 
Title: The A-Team (season 2)
Content:  at the end of Season 2's "The Only Church in Town". ; A cylon walking past causes Face to double take in the Season 2 episode "Steel". ; Face posing as Dr. Dwight Pepper in Warden Beale's office in Season 1's "Pros and Cons" (as previous version). ; Another shot of Face, taken from Season 1's "A Small and Deadly War" (as previous version). ; Murdock in the catering truck, coughing after eating shaving cream in Season 1's "Til' Death Do Us Part". ; Murdock singing in the make shift aircraft in Season 1's "Holiday in the Hills" (as previous version). ; Murdock disguised himself as "Captain Cab", as he talks to a sock puppet 
Title: The A-Team
Content:  refer to such a tactic, after which the other members of the team would complain about its failure during the War. This was also used to refer to some of Face's past accomplishments in scamming items for the team, such as in the first-season episode "Holiday In The Hills", in which Murdock fondly remembers Face being able to secure a '53 Cadillac while in the Vietnam jungle. The team's ties to the Vietnam War were referred to again in the fourth-season finale, "The Sound of Thunder", in which the team is introduced to Tia (Tia Carrere), a war orphan and daughter of fourth season antagonist General 
Title: The A-Team (film)
Content:  was postponing his fight at UFC 107 with Rashad Evans due to filming for The A-Team. Filming started in Vancouver in late 2009, and Jackson's involvement was then confirmed. On September 15, 2009, Variety confirmed the casting of Neeson, Cooper and Jackson. They additionally reported that Sharlto Copley and Jessica Biel were in final negotiations to join the cast. Copley would be playing the role of H.M. Murdock and Biel would be playing the ex-lover of Face who is a disillusioned and ruthless Army officer in charge of pursuing the team. 20th Century Fox later confirmed that Copley and Biel were cast in the film. The first 

Question: who played the face in the a team?
Answer: Dirk Benedict.