Born: Peter Aurness March 18, 1926 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died: March 14, 2010 (aged 83) Pacific Palisades, California
Peter Graves was an American film and television actor. He was known for his starring role in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973, and its revival, from 1988 to 1990. He was the younger brother of character actor James Arness.
Death of Peter Graves
Graves died on March 14, 2010, just four days prior to his 84th birthday. He collapsed outside his home in Pacific Palisades, shortly after returning from a Sunday brunch with his family. His daughter tried to revive him, but failed. According to Graves’ business manager, Graves died of a heart attack
Awards
Peter Graves won a Golden Globe Award in 1971 for his role as Jim Phelps in the series Mission: Impossible.
He won an Emmy Award for outstanding informational series in 1997 as host of A&E Biography
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Peter Graves’ star was added just 5 months before his death
Airplane – Trailer
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Peter Grave Filmography
* Winning Your Wings (1942) (short subject)
* Up Front (1951)
* Fort Defiance (1951)
* The Congregation (1952)
* Red Planet Mars (1952)
* Stalag 17 (1953)
* War Paint (1953)
* East of Sumatra (1953)
* Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
* Killers from Space (1954)
* The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
* The Raid (1954)
* Black Tuesday (1954)
* Fort Yuma (1955)
* The Long Gray Line (1955)
* Robbers’ Roost (1955)
* Wichita (1955)
* The Naked Street (1955)
* The Night of the Hunter (1955)
* The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
* It Conquered the World (1956)
* Hold Back the Night (1956)
* Canyon River (1956)
* Beginning of the End (1957)
* Bayou (1957)
* Death in Small Doses (1957)
* Wolf Larsen (1958)
* A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
* A Rage to Live (1965)
* Texas Across the River (1966)
* The Ballad of Josie (1967)
* Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob (1968) (compilation of episodes released to European theaters)
* Sergeant Ryker (1968)
* The Five Man Army (1969)
* Where Have All The People Gone? (1974) (TV movie)
* Scream of the Wolf (1974)
* Sidecar Racers (1975)
* The Mysterious Monsters (1976) (documentary) (narrator)
* High Seas Hijack (1978) (in English version)
* The Clonus Horror (1979)
* Survival Run (1980)
* Airplane! (1980)
* The Guns and the Fury (1981)
* Savannah Smiles (1982)
* Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
* The Winds of War (1983)
* Number One with a Bullet (1987)
* War and Remembrance (1988)
* Addams Family Values (1993)
* House on Haunted Hill (1999)
* Men in Black II (2002)
* Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)