Grew up with him on Mission Impossible.
Sure was funny in Airplane.
""You ever seen a grown man naked?"
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Sure was funny in Airplane.
""You ever seen a grown man naked?"
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Peter Graves is dead...
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james arness` brother(matt dillon from gunsmoke...played the creature in the original "thing from another world")......
sad news...
sad news...
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HE WAS COOL..
HE WAS COOL..
HE WAS COOL..
Peter Graves, Star of Mission: Impossible, Airplane!, Dies
Today 6:00 PM PDT by Joal Ryan
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<!-- internal videos / html on top --><!-- external videos / html on top --><!-- audio player --><!-- gallery preview--><!-- custom polls --><!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --><!-- movie review grade -->Peter Graves' career was more like three careers. At least. He was Mission: Impossible'spre-Tom Cruise leading agent, Jim Phelps. He was Airplane's Turkish prison-curious pilot, Capt. Oveur. He was the Emmy-winning host of Biography.
The silver-haired star who lent a steadiness and voice of authority to 60 years' worth of TV and film was found dead today of apparently natural causes in his Los Angeles-area home. He was 83.
For all his work?Graves' credits include the Billy Wilder WWII classic, Stalag 17, to bits on House and American Dad?the actor may be best remembered for listening very carefully to the following taped greeting: "Good morning, Mr. Phelps?"
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And it's possible he's best remembered for helping tell the stories of dozens and dozens, both the famous and the infamous.
Graves intercepted self-destructing tape messages on TV's M:I from 1967-1973, and again from 1988-1990, in the short-lived redo. He was not the franchise's original leading man?Steven Hill, later of Law & Order, was?but until the Cruise movie franchise, he was its signature star. Graves never appeared in one of the Cruise movies; Jon Voight played a treacherous Phelps in the first 1996 big-screen adventure.
Airplane! made Graves a new comedy star at middle age in 1980. He returned to Capt. Oveur's ?uvre in 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel. Biography came along in the 1990s; Graves stayed for more than a decade, winning an Emmy for the cable series in 1997.
Born in 1926, Graves was the younger brother of fellow classic-TV icon James Arness, who starred on the marathon-long-running Western, Gunsmoke.
Last December, Graves sounded ready for more careers, telling the Los Angeles Times he had no intention of retiring. "There has got to be some good parts around for guys my age," he said.
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<!-- internal videos / html on top --><!-- external videos / html on top --><!-- audio player --><!-- gallery preview--><!-- custom polls --><!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --><!-- movie review grade -->Peter Graves' career was more like three careers. At least. He was Mission: Impossible'spre-Tom Cruise leading agent, Jim Phelps. He was Airplane's Turkish prison-curious pilot, Capt. Oveur. He was the Emmy-winning host of Biography.
The silver-haired star who lent a steadiness and voice of authority to 60 years' worth of TV and film was found dead today of apparently natural causes in his Los Angeles-area home. He was 83.
For all his work?Graves' credits include the Billy Wilder WWII classic, Stalag 17, to bits on House and American Dad?the actor may be best remembered for listening very carefully to the following taped greeting: "Good morning, Mr. Phelps?"
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And it's possible he's best remembered for helping tell the stories of dozens and dozens, both the famous and the infamous.
Graves intercepted self-destructing tape messages on TV's M:I from 1967-1973, and again from 1988-1990, in the short-lived redo. He was not the franchise's original leading man?Steven Hill, later of Law & Order, was?but until the Cruise movie franchise, he was its signature star. Graves never appeared in one of the Cruise movies; Jon Voight played a treacherous Phelps in the first 1996 big-screen adventure.
Airplane! made Graves a new comedy star at middle age in 1980. He returned to Capt. Oveur's ?uvre in 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel. Biography came along in the 1990s; Graves stayed for more than a decade, winning an Emmy for the cable series in 1997.
Born in 1926, Graves was the younger brother of fellow classic-TV icon James Arness, who starred on the marathon-long-running Western, Gunsmoke.
Last December, Graves sounded ready for more careers, telling the Los Angeles Times he had no intention of retiring. "There has got to be some good parts around for guys my age," he said.
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Ummmmmmmmmm yeah.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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I'm watching the Virginian and Peter Graves is the special guest star, never knew he was Arness' little brother.
