Peter Graves Died
March 15, 2010
Actor Peter Graves, who got fame through his 1960s TV show Mission : Impossible, died Sunday at his home at the age of 83. He died of natural causes so police was not intended to launch an investigation to find the root causes of his death. One of the spokesmen of Peter Graves confirmed the death of actor saying he died of a heart attack. Peter Graves, the younger brother of Gunsmoke actor Jim Arness, earned spotlight for him at time he was chosen the leader of the “Impossible Mission Force” on popular television spy drama Mission : Impossible, and he remained leader in series until it was canceled in 1973.
Besides Mission : Impossible, he is also known for his deadpan comedic role in spoof Airline in which he played the not-so-subtle peadophile pilot of a doomed jet. During World War II, the actor served Air Force between 1944-1945. As an actor, he appeared in almost 130 films after reading drama from the University of Minnesota. Rogue River was his first first film, released in 1951 while In 1971, he won a Golden Globe for his win in Mission : Impossible.
He appeared in following movies “The Yellow Tomahawk” (1954) and “Wichita” (1955); a Civil War adventure, “The Raid” (1954); and gangster movies (“Black Tuesday,” 1954, and “The Naked Street,” 1955). He played earnest scientists in science fiction/horror films: “Killers From Space” (1954), “It Conquered the World” (1956) and “Beginning of the End” (1957, about giant grasshoppers in Chicago). “Red Planet Mars” (1952), “East of Sumatra” (1953), “Beneath the 12-Mile Reef” (1953), “A Rage to Live” (1965), “Texas Across the River” (1966), “Sergeant Ryker” (1968), “The Ballad of Josie” (1968), “The Five-Man Army” (1969), “The Clonus Horror” (1979), “The Guns and the Fury” (1981), “Savannah Smiles” (1982), “Number One With a Bullet” (1986), “Addams Family Values” (1993), “The House on Haunted Hill” (1999) and “Men in Black II” (2002).