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Actor Peter Graves found dead at his home in Pacific Palisades
LAT ^ | March 14, 2010 | staff reporter

Posted on 03/14/2010 6:17:55 PM PDT by 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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To: GreenLanternCorps

Stalag 17. Just watched it again a few weeks ago.

All. Time. Classic.


81 posted on 03/14/2010 6:45:03 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: ICAB9USA

Fury! I totally forgot about that show. I used to love it, too. Didn’t know it was Peter Graves in it, though.


82 posted on 03/14/2010 6:45:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: LibFreeOrDie; Jeremiah Jr; Yehuda; null and void; aculeus
Graves, who stared in "Mission: Impossible...<<<

Yes, Mr Graves stared as well as starred in movies and TV. (Geez, does the LAT read what they write?)

Oh now have a heart, maybe he had Graves' disease! :-/

(RIP, Mr. Graves.)

83 posted on 03/14/2010 6:45:29 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Daffynition

Little brother of James Arness.


84 posted on 03/14/2010 6:46:17 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: AU72

Me too. Ruined the picture for me. Never went back for the sequels. It’s almost a rule with a very few exceptions that movie versions of tv shows are abominations.


85 posted on 03/14/2010 6:46:55 PM PDT by xp38
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To: JoeProBono

It’s a pretty good run, as they say.


86 posted on 03/14/2010 6:47:06 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition

He entertained us for many hours of decent TV...RIP Mr Graves...


87 posted on 03/14/2010 6:48:05 PM PDT by devane617 (VOTE THEM OUT! ALL OF THEM!)
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To: Mr. Lucky
LOL ....Was she married to Martin Landau?


88 posted on 03/14/2010 6:48:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: sanjoaquinvalley

Thanks, you’re correct.


89 posted on 03/14/2010 6:49:13 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: Daffynition

Oh, there was also that film “Killers from Space” (1954), with those bulging-eyed aliens. Terrible film, but I’d invariably watch it whenever it turned up, just to get a kick out of seeing Graves giving it his all, despite the slapdash proceedings!


90 posted on 03/14/2010 6:49:22 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Daffynition
I loved his little self-parody docu-drama in MIB II.
91 posted on 03/14/2010 6:49:31 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Daffynition

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?


92 posted on 03/14/2010 6:49:52 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: LibFreeOrDie
(Geez, does the LAT read what they write?)

No one else does...

93 posted on 03/14/2010 6:50:53 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 415 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Daffynition

Not in my teenage fantasy, she wasn’t.


94 posted on 03/14/2010 6:51:09 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: wally_bert

I discover that he was in when I start watch Law and ORder mothership then I watch Mission Impossible season 1 I was thinking HEY Adam where is Briscoe and McCoy LOL!

Don’t ask LOL!


95 posted on 03/14/2010 6:51:21 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: mware

Who were the other two?


96 posted on 03/14/2010 6:52:35 PM PDT by racing fan
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To: SevenofNine

I would take Briscoe and Stone. McCoy would be an emergency reserve operative.


97 posted on 03/14/2010 6:52:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Daffynition

This was a bad week to quit sniffing glue.

RIP, Pete.


98 posted on 03/14/2010 6:53:26 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: racing fan
Merlin Olson.

..and the other Cory.

99 posted on 03/14/2010 6:53:58 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Army Air Corps
I was watching Airplane on DVD last night and I enabled the commentary.

There's a DVD with commentary?! I have to run out and buy/rent it!

Graves said that he thought shooting on the film would end when he uttered the line, “Have you seen a man naked?”

Was it in the script? I've heard that the studio interfered in the movie production, but why was he worried they'd shut down filming after that line?

One thing I read (but am not sure it's confirmed) was that the Zucker brothers wanted to use a prop plane in the exterior shot -- a homage to Zero Hour (their inspiration for Airplane!). The studio refused, so they dubbed in the sound of a prop plane for every exterior shot.

100 posted on 03/14/2010 6:54:15 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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