Actor Peter Graves found dead at his home in Pacific Palisades

LAT ^ | March 14, 2010 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

Actor Peter Graves was found dead Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to law enforcement sources. Graves, who stared in "Mission: Impossible," "Airplane!" and Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17"--apparently died of natural causes, the sources said.

Graves was 83, according to a biography on the website IMDB.com.

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[RGSpincich]

Birth Name
Peter Aurness

Brother James Arness

It all makes sense now.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I thought James Arnes's brother was Jack Palance?

RIP Mr. Graves

[Huskrrrr]

Trivia: did the IMF team ever “choose not to accept a mission”?

[BunnySlippers]

Did not know that. RIP

[Richard Kimball]

He could move deftly from comedy to drama. His character in Stalag 17 was terrific.

RIP

[ErnBatavia]

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Somebody with your screen name should not be axing such questions. Leave it your elected officials....

[Las Vegas Ron]

You’re right, just looked it up.

[Daffynition]

I don’t recall any controversy about him. IIRC he played the parts of a gentleman, which he probably was in reality.

[TexasNative2000]

His best role. Just saw Stalag 17 again a couple of weeks ago.

[Army Air Corps]

I was watching Airplane on DVD last night and I enabled the commentary. Graves said that he thought shooting on the film would end when he uttered the line, “Have you seen a man naked?”

[Mr. Lucky]

Jeez, I think I had a crush on Barbara Bain from 9th grade until about, what, last Tuesday.

[centurion316]

Captain Over is over.

[Manic_Episode]

The secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence.

[greene66]

Always had a particular affection for his first film, “Rogue River” from 1950, a rather odd, offbeat drama, shot in color, and on-location in Oregon. It used to be a fixture on the late-show, decades ago.

Sad news. I’ve also been in the process of watching the “Mission: Impossible” dvd-sets. Glad all seven seasons made it to dvd.

[Daffynition]

I have to watch that film again....

[Krankor]

Is Fury still alive?

[Hoodat]

Surely, you can’t be serious.

[Gay State Conservative]

Have you ever seen a grown man naked? Somebody with your screen name should not be axing such questions. Leave it your elected officials....

You know,with all the razzing I've taken over my screen name yours is the first one that I'm inclined to agree with.I hereby withdraw it! ;-)

(Of course,I'd encourage you to peek at my profile for an explanation of its origin)

[SamAdams76]

Went to update Wikipedia but they already knew...damn!

[PhiloBedo]

Didn’t Peter Graves star in a short lived TV show called Whip Lash? The story was about a stage coach driver in Australia.