Peter Graves
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The younger brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness, American actor Peter Graves worked as a musician and radio actor before entering films with 1950's Rogue River. At first, it appeared that Graves would be the star of the family, since he was cast in leads while brother Jim languished in secondary roles. Then came Stalag 17 (1953), in which Graves was first-rate as a supposedly all-American POW who turned out to be a vicious Nazi spy. Trouble was, Graves played the part too well, and couldn't shake the Nazi stereotype in the eyes of most Hollywood producers. Suddenly the actor found himself in such secondary roles as Shelley Winters' doomed husband in Night of the Hunter (1955) (he was in and out of the picture after the first ten minutes), while sibling James Arness was riding high with Gunsmoke. Dissatisfied with his film career, Graves signed on in 1955 for a network kid's series about "a horse and the boy who loved him." Fury wasn't exactly Citizen Kane, but it ran five years and made Graves a wealthy man through rerun residuals--so much so that he claimed to be making more money from Fury than his brother did from Gunsmoke. In 1966, Peter Graves replaced Steven Hill as head honcho of the force on the weekly TV adventure series Mission: Impossible, a stint that lasted until 1973. Though a better than average actor, Graves gained something of a camp reputation for his stiff, straight-arrow film characters and was often cast in films that parodied his TV image. One of the best of these lampoonish appearances was in the Zucker-Abrahams comedy Airplane (1980), as a nutty airline pilot who asks outrageous questions to a young boy on the plane (a part the actor very nearly turned down, until he discovered that Leslie Nielsen was co-starring in the film). Peter Graves effortlessly maintained his reliable, authoritative movie persona into the '90s and 2000s, and hosted the Biography series on A&E, for which he won an Emmy; he also guest-starred on programs including Cold Case, House and American Dad. Graves died of natural causes in March 2010, at age 83.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Marilyn Monroe - The Mortal Goddess |
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— | 2002 |
38% | Men in Black II |
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$190.4M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | These Old Broads |
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— | 2001 |
31% | House on Haunted Hill |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Biography - Santa Claus |
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— | 1995 |
77% | Addams Family Values |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 5 |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | I Hired a Contract Killer |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Number One with a Bullet |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling (Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street) (Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street) |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Savannah Smiles |
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— | 1982 |
42% | Airplane 2 - The Sequel |
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— | 1982 |
50% | The Hunter |
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— | 1980 |
97% | Airplane! |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Survival Run |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Death Car on the Freeway |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Parts, The Clonus Horror |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Rebels |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Cruise Missile |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | SST: Death Flight (Flight of the Maiden) |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Mysterious Monsters |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Paul and Michelle |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Where Have All the People Gone? |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Scream of the Wolf |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The President's Plane Is Missing |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Adventurers |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Five Man Army (Un esercito di 5 uomini) |
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— | 1970 |
59% | The Magic Christian |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | I'll Never Forget What's'isname |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Mission Impossible Versus the Mob |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Sergeant Ryker |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | The Jokers |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | The Ballad of Josie |
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— | 1967 |
44% | How I Won the War |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Texas Across the River |
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— | 1966 |
88% | The Wrong Box |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | A Rage to Live |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Beginning of the End |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Bayou |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Death In Small Doses |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Admirable Crichton |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Canyon River |
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— | 1956 |
80% | It Conquered the World |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Naked Street (The Brass Ring) |
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— | 1955 |
100% | Wichita |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Black Tuesday |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Robbers' Roost |
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— | 1955 |
100% | The Long Gray Line |
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— | 1955 |
95% | The Night of the Hunter |
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— | 1955 |
100% | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Lilacs in the Spring (Let's Make Up) |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | The Yellow Tomahawk |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Killers from Space |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | The Raid |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Beneath the 12-Mile Reef |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | War Paint |
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— | 1953 |
97% | Stalag 17 |
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— | 1953 |
40% | Red Planet Mars |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Fort Defiance |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Encore |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Spring in Park Lane |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Maytime in Mayfair |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Mrs. Fitzherbert |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Waltz Time |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | I'll Be Your Sweetheart |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Bees in Paradise |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Give Us The Moon |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | King Arthur Was a Gentleman |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Kipps (The Remarkable Mr. Kipps) |
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— | 1941 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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American Dad (target for inaccurate feed data)
2005
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No Score Yet |
7th Heaven
1996-2007
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No Score Yet |
Cold Case
2003-2010
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90% |
House
2004-2012
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No Score Yet |
The Golden Girls
1985-1992
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No Score Yet |
War and Remembrance
1988-1989
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Winds of War
1983
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33% |
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979-1981
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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Biography
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Quotes from Peter Graves' Characters
Capt. Oveur: | Ok give me Hamm on 5 and hold the Mayo |
Capt. Oveur: | Ok give me Hamm on 5 and hold the Mayo. |
Capt. Oveur: | No dialogue as such but crazy and unforgettable newspaper headline that read; "BOY TRAPPED IN REFRIGERATOR EATS OWN FOOT" |
Capt. Oveur: | [newspaper that has the headline] 'Boy Trapped In Refrigerator Eats Own Foot.' |
Dr. Rumack: | Captain, how soon can we land? |
Capt. Oveur: | I can't tell. |
Dr. Rumack: | You can tell me, I'm a doctor. |
Capt. Oveur: | Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison? |
Capt. Oveur: | Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? |
Capt. Oveur: | Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? |
Capt. Oveur: | Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison? |
Capt. Oveur: | Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? |
Host: | And then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork and the stork flew down from heaven and left a diamond under a leaf in the cabbage patch and the diamond turned in to a baby |
Host: | And then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork and the stork flew down from heaven and left a diamond under a leaf in the cabbage patch and the diamond turned in to a baby. |
Pugsley Addams: | Our parent's are having a baby, too. |
Wednesday Addams: | They had sex. |
Capt. Oveur: | You ever been in a cockpit before? |
Joey: | No sir, I've never been up in a plane before. |
Capt. Oveur: | You ever seen a grown man naked? |
Capt. Oveur: | Have you ever been in a plane cockpit before? |
Joey: | No, sir. |
Capt. Oveur: | Ever seen a grown man naked? |