Editing Dirk Benedict (section)

===2000s and 2010s===
In 2000, Benedict wrote and directed his first screenplay, ''Cahoots''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mark Deming|date=2008|title=Cahoots|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|department=Movies & TV Dept.|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/244091/Cahoots/overview|url-status=dead|access-date=May 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908015459/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/244091/Cahoots/overview|archive-date=September 8, 2008}}</ref> Benedict appeared in the 2006 German film ''[[Goldene Zeiten]]'' ("Golden Times") in a dual role, playing an American former TV star as well as a German lookalike who impersonates him.

In 2006, he wrote an online essay criticizing the then-airing ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' re-imagined series and, especially, its casting of a woman as his character, Starbuck, writing that "the war against masculinity has been won" and that "a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Benedict|first1=Dirk|date=May 2004|title=Lost in Castration|url=http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220100737/http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5|archive-date=December 20, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2006|website=Dirk Benedict Central}}</ref>

He appeared as a contestant on the 2007 UK series of ''[[Celebrity Big Brother (British series 5)|Celebrity Big Brother 5]]'', in which he placed third. He arrived on launch night in a replica of the [[The A-Team#GMC van|''A-Team'' van]], smoking a cigar and accompanied by the [[The A-Team#Theme song and soundtrack|''A-Team'' theme tune]].

In 2010, Benedict starred in a stage production of ''[[Columbo#Development and character profile|Prescription: Murder]]'' playing [[Columbo (character)|Lieutenant Columbo]] for the [[Middle Ground Theatre Company]] in the UK. Benedict also made a [[cameo appearance]] in the [[The A-Team (film)|2010 film adaptation]] of ''The A-Team'' as Pensacola Prisoner Milt.<ref>{{cite web|date=November 23, 2009|title="Prescription:Murder" and "The A-Team"|url=http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/headline-readarticle.php?nid=45|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921002524/http://dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/headline-readarticle.php?nid=45|archive-date=September 21, 2010|access-date=May 22, 2012|website=Dirk Benedict Central}}</ref>

In 2019, Benedict took on the role of Jack Strange in the B movie ''[[Space Ninjas]]'', written and directed by Scott McQuaid. Dirk plays an eccentric TV host of a show called ''Stranger Than Fiction'', which is like a hybrid of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' and ''[[The X-Files]]''. The movie is a sci-fi comedy horror that follows a bunch of high school students trying to survive the night of a Space Ninja invasion.