Peter Graves

Peter Graves (March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010) was an American actor. 

Early life
His mother was of German ancestry; his father of Norwegian. 

Career
In the early years of his career he starred in sci fi movies  such as Red Planet Mars (1952), Killers from Space (1954), and some low-budget western movies, including Fort Defiance (1951) and Fort Yuma (1955). He played Morgan Earp, in Wichita (1955), with Joel McCrea and directed by Jacques Tourneur. 

Peter Graves won the role of traitor prisoner Sgt. Price in the movie Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden. Another of his movies was The Night of the Hunter (1955), with Robert Mitchum.

Other movies include Texas Across the River (1966), with Dean Martin, The Ballad of Josie (1967), The Five Man Army (1969), where he leads a group of mercenaries in Mexico.

In 1980s he plays a crazy pilot, in the comedy movie Airplane! (1980) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). 

His last movie was Addams Family Values (1993).

Television
In 1967 Graves replaced Steven Hill in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible. He played the role Jim Phelps leader of a group of spies.  He worked on the series from 1967 until 1973. He returned later to make Mission: Impossible 1988.

He also had a relative success in the series Fury (1955-1960), Whiplash (1961), and Court Martial (1965-1966).

Her performances include specials such as Hallmark Hall of Fame, Fireside Theatre, Celebrity Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Disneylandia, The Red Skelton Show. he died of heart attacks in Los Angeles 

Filmography
+ Film Year Títle Rol Notes 1951 Rogue River  Pete Dandridge    1951 Fort Defiance    Ned Tallon   1952 Red Planet Mars    Chris Cronyn   1953  Stalag 17 Sgt. Price   1953  War Paint  Trooper Tolson  1953  East of Sumatra   Cowboy1953  Beneath the 12-Mile Reef  Arnold Dix 1954  Killers from Space  Dr. Doug Paul Martin    1954 The Yellow Tomahawk    Sawyer 1954  The Raid    Capt. Frank Dwyer   1954 Black Tuesday    Peter Manning  1955/1960 Fury    Jim Newton  TV series1955  Robbers' Roost    Heesman 1955 Wichita  Morgan1955  The Night of the Hunter  Ben Harper 1955 The Naked Street  Joe McFarland  1955 Fort Yuma  Lt. Ben Keegan   1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell   1956 It Conquered the World   Dr. Paul Nelson   1956 Hold Back the Night  Lt. Lee Couzens  1956 Canyon River   Bob Andrews  1957 Beginning of the End  Dr. Ed Wainwright  1957 Bayou   Martin Davis   1957 Death in Small Doses  Agent/Tom Kaylor  1958 Wolf Larsen   Van Weyden   1959 A Stranger in My Arms  Donald Ashton Beasley  1961 Whiplash   Christopher Cobb   TV series 1965 Sergeant Ryker  Maj. Whitaker  1965/1966 Court Martial   Maj. Frank Whittaker   TV series 1966 Texas Across the River  Capt. Rodney Stimpson   1967/1973 Mission Impossible   James Phelps  TV series 1967 The Ballad of Josie  Jason Meredith  1969 The 5 Man Army!   Dutchman   1975 Sidecar Racers   Carson 1978 Missile X - Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe   Alec Franklin   1978 High Seas Hijack   Elliott Rhoades   1979 Survival Run   Kandaris   1979 The Clonus Horror   Jeffrey Knight   1980 Airplane!   Captain Clarence Oveur  1981 The Guns and the Fury   Mark Janser   1982 Savannah Smiles   Harland Dobbs   1982 Airplane II: The Sequel   Capt. Clarence Oveur   1984 Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling   Tom Collins   1987 Number One with a Bullet   Capt. Ferris   1988/1990 Mission: Impossible   Jim Phelps  TV series 1993 Addams Family Values   Host  2010 Jack's Family Adventure   George Vickery  TV film

References





 Biography and filmography at Brian's Drive-In Theater
 Peter Graves at The New York Times

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