While giving a weather update, he infamously called incoming snow flurries 'flow snurries'. While living in Pittsburgh, Peppard worked as a radio DJ at WLOA in Braddock, Pennsylvania. (It took longer than normal because he dropped out for a year when his father died in 1951 and he had to finish his father's jobs.) He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Peppard then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1955. 'I just decided I didn't want to be an engineer,' he said later. He became interested in acting, being an admirer of Walter Huston in particular. ĭuring 19, he studied civil engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps July 8, 1946, and rose to the rank of corporal, leaving the Corps at the end of his enlistment in January 1948. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan in 1946.

His family lost all its money in the Depression, and his father had to leave George and his mother in Detroit while he went looking for work.

His mother had five miscarriages before George. and opera singer and voice teacher Vernelle Rohrer. was born October 1, 1928, in Detroit, the son of building contractor George Peppard, Sr.

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