Peter Graves
ActingAlso Known As
Peter Duesler Aurness
Biography
Peter 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.
Movies
(102 total)
Men in Black II
as Peter Graves
Airplane!
as Capt. Clarence Oveur
Addams Family Values
as Host
The Night of the Hunter
as Ben Harper
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
as Host of Civil Defense Film
Airplane II: The Sequel
as Capt. Clarence Oveur
House on Haunted Hill
as Self
Stalag 17
as Sgt. Frank Price
The Assassination Bureau
as Dragomiloff's Butler (uncredited)
The 5-Man Army
as Dutchman
Killers from Space
as Douglas Martin
The Long Gray Line
as Corporal Rudolph Heinz
Wichita
as Morgan Earp
It Conquered the World
as Dr. Paul Nelson
Parts: The Clonus Horror
as Jeff Knight
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
as Tom Collins
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Capt. Bob Elliott
Beginning of the End
as Dr. Ed Wainwright
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
as Arnold Dix
Where Have All the People Gone
as Steven Anders
TV Shows
(71 total)
House
as Myron
American Dad!
as Mr. Pibb (voice)
Cold Case
as Anton Bikker (2006)
Murder, She Wrote
as Edmund Gerard
The Golden Girls
as Jerry Kennedy
Mission: Impossible
as Jim Phelps
7th Heaven
as John "Colonel" Camden
Mission: Impossible
as Jim Phelps
The Love Boat
as Gerald Whitney
The Love Boat
as Leonard Culver
The Love Boat
as Carl Lawrence
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Major Noah Cooper
Diagnosis: Murder
as Peter Graves
Simon & Simon
as Wade Christian
Disney's House of Mouse
as Instructor Voice (voice)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mark Needham
The Invaders
as Gavin Lewis
The Winds of War
as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby