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Peter Graves
Known for: ActingPeter Graves (born Peter Duesler Aurness; March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010) was an American actor. While growing up in Minnesota, he excelled at sports and music (as a saxophonist), and by age 16, he was a radio announcer at WMIN in Minneapolis. After two years in the United States Air Force, he studied drama at the University of Minnesota and then headed to Hollywood, where he first appeared on television and later made his film debut in Rogue River (1951). Numerous film appearances followed, especially in Westerns. However, Graves is primarily recognized for his television work, particularly as Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1966). Peter Graves died of a heart attack on March 14, 2010, just four days before his 84th birthday.
Filmography 39
Mission: Impossible
+5
as Jim Phelps 
Airplane!
+12
as Capt. Clarence Oveur 
Fury
+4
as Jim Newton 
The Winds of War
as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby 
Wichita
+2
as Morgan Earp 
House on Haunted Hill
+3
as Self 
Airplane II: The Sequel
+8
as Capt. Clarence Oveur 
The Night of the Hunter
+12
as Ben Harper 
The 5-Man Army
+2
as Dutchman 
Stalag 17
+9
as Frank Price 
SST: Death Flight
as Paul Whitley 
Texas Across the River
+2
as Capt. Stimpson 
Red Planet Mars
+3
as Chris Cronyn 
The Long Gray Line
+4
as Corporal Rudolph Heinz 
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
+7
as Tom Collins 
The Ballad of Josie
+2
as Jason Meredith 
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Capt. Bob Elliott 
Parts: The Clonus Horror
+4
as Jeff Knight 
These Old Broads
+6
as Bill 
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
+21
as Arnold Dix 
Beginning of the End
+5
as Dr. Ed Wainwright 
A Rage to Live
+7
as Jack Hollister 
The Naked Street
+1
as Joe McFarland 
The Yellow Tomahawk
+1
as Sawyer 
Black Tuesday
+1
as Peter Manning 
Savannah Smiles
+11
as Harland Dobbs 
Number One with a Bullet
as Capt. Ferris 
Where Have All the People Gone
as Steven Anders 
Scream of the Wolf
+5
as John Wetherby 
Survival Run
as Kandaris 
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
+4
as Alec Franklin 
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
as TV Director 
Canyon River
+2
as Bob Andrews 
Death in Small Doses
+2
as Agent / Tom Kaylor 
Killers from Space
+18
as Douglas Martin 
Paul and Michelle
as Sir Henry 
Fort Yuma
as Lt. Ben Keegan 
War Paint
+1
as Trooper Tolson 
Robbers' Roost
+2
as Heesman