Editing George Peppard (section)

==Personal life==
Peppard was married four times and was the father of three children.
*Helen Davies (1954–1964): two children, Bradford and Julie. Ms. Davies never remarried. 
*[[Elizabeth Ashley]] (1966–1972), his co-star in ''[[The Carpetbaggers (film)|The Carpetbaggers]]'' and ''[[The Third Day (1965 film)|The Third Day]]'': one son, Christian. In accordance with their 1972 divorce settlement, Peppard paid Ashley $2,000 per month in alimony for four years, and $350 per month in child support for their son Christian Peppard.<ref name=divorce/> Ashley's two awards were nullified in 1975 when she married James McCarthy, whom she divorced in 1981.
*[[Sherry Boucher]] (1975–1979), a realtor from [[Springhill, Louisiana]], who subsequently married John Lytle.
*Alexis Adams (1984–1986), also known as Joyce Ann Furbee, a TV actress.

In 1990, he said, "Getting married and having a bad divorce is just like breaking your leg. The same leg, in the same place. I'm lucky I don't walk with a cane."<ref name="cane">GEORGE PEPPARD: Ready, Set, Action Character: [Orange County Edition]
Cerone, Daniel. Los Angeles Times November 25, 1990: 86.</ref>

Peppard resided in a Greek revival-style white cottage in [[Hollywood Hills, California]], until the time of his death. His home featured elegant porches on three sides and a guest house in the back. Later owned by designer Brenda Antin, who spent a year renovating it, the small home was purchased by writer/actress [[Lena Dunham]] in 2015 for $2.7 million.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.curbed.com/2015/3/2/9985654/lena-dunham-buys-27m-los-angeles-home| title=Lena Dunham Drops $2.7M on a 1920s Home in West Hollywood| last=Peterson| first=Spenser| journal=[[Curbed]]| date=March 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://hookedonhouses.net/2015/03/12/lena-dunham-buys-house-with-hollywood-history/| title=Lena Dunham Buys House with Hollywood History| website=hookedonhouses.net| date=March 12, 2015| access-date=June 25, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324155152/https://hookedonhouses.net/2015/03/12/lena-dunham-buys-house-with-hollywood-history/| archive-date=March 24, 2018| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Peppard overcame a serious alcohol problem in 1978, after which he became deeply involved in helping other alcoholics. "I knew I had to stop and I did", he said in 1983. "Looking back now I'm ashamed of some of the things I did when I was drinking."<ref name="george"/>

Peppard smoked three packs of cigarettes a day for most of his life. After a diagnosis of lung cancer in 1992 and an operation to remove part of one lung, he quit smoking.<ref>''Bang Out of Order'' {{ISBN|978-1-90284-321-6}} ch. 14</ref>

Despite health problems in his later years, he continued acting. In 1994, just before his death, Peppard completed a pilot with [[Tracy Nelson (actress)|Tracy Nelson]] for a new series called ''The P.I.'' It aired as an episode of ''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'' and was to be spun off into a new television series with Peppard playing an aging detective and Nelson his daughter and sidekick.

On May 8, 1994, while still battling lung cancer, Peppard died from [[pneumonia]] in Los Angeles.<ref name='The New York Times 1994-05-10'>{{cite news| first=Glenn| last=Collins| title=George Peppard Dies; Stage and Screen Actor, 65| date=May 10, 1994| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/obituaries/george-peppard-dies-stage-and-screen-actor-65.html| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=August 23, 2010| url-access=subscription |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323124033/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/obituaries/george-peppard-dies-stage-and-screen-actor-65.html |archivedate=23 March 2010}}</ref>