Peter Graves
Birthday: 1926-03-18
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.
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Stalag 17
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
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Airplane!
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to...
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The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuab...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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Paul and Michelle
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the fa...
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Killers from Space
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission a...
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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden A...
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida...
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Rogue River
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windf...
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Red Planet Mars
Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars....
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Black Tuesday
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the e...
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Sidecar Racers
You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! De...
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It Conquered the World
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, a...
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Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel
Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite deliver...
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The Long Gray Line
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer a...
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The 5-Man Army
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat style...
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Savannah Smiles
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two n...
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Beginning of the End
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a ...
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The Mysterious Monsters
One of the many notorious 70's "unknown" documentaries, The Mysterious Monsters covers topics such a...
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Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad E...
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The Ballad of Josie
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming....
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Death in Small Doses
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers....
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Fury
Jim Newton and his adopted son Joey navigate life on the Broken Wheel Ranch, with their close bond t...
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These Old Broads
Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate W...
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Parts: The Clonus Horror
An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society....
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Survival Run
A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When ...
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Bayou
A community of Cajun fishermen living around a remote bayou includes one authentic beauty, Marie, wh...
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A Rage to Live
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble r...
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Where Have All the People Gone
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate...
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The Naked Street
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid...
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War Paint
An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace tre...
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Hold Back The Night
A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war...
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Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans...
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Doris Day: It's Magic
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her p...
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High ...
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Fort Defiance
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill...
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Scream of the Wolf
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect th...
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Canyon River
A rancher's foreman schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming....
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The Yellow Tomahawk
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a ...
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Wolf Larsen
A mean-spirited ship captain keeps his crew under his autocratic thumb while indulging his more refi...
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Fort Yuma
Apaches plan to attack a fort by wearing uniforms plundered from a cavalry officer's (Peter Graves) ...
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty B...
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What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar
A documentary about Doris Day and the question where she is today....
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Dead Man on the Run
A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a po...
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Robbers' Roost
Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang ...
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SST: Death Flight
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be abl...
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Death Car on the Freeway
A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women drivers on...
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Texas Across the River
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala...
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East of Sumatra
Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the...
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Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Featuring Audra McDonald and Peter Graves
Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and veteran movie and television star Peter Graves join w...
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Addams Family Values
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy ad...
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Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
Steve Martin's second NBC special was made up entirely of sketches. Highlights include: Marty Robbin...
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The Congregation
Religious film starring a just starting out Peter Graves was produced by the Protestant Film Commiss...
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The Raid
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the smal...
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America on the Move 1876-2000
Two complete documentaries exploring more than a century of invention innovation transportation and ...
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The Rebels
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English n...
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The Assassination Bureau
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat...
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House on Haunted Hill
An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a d...
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Valley of Mystery
A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 pas...
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Angels in the Outfield
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine as...
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Race for Survival
When a game warden crashes in East Africa, his greyhound goes for help, only to find unexpected assi...
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The Unexplained: Witches, Werewolves & Vampires
Hosted by Peter Graves, this documentary questions the myths and facts about witches, werewolves, an...
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High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands....
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Number One with a Bullet
A pair of detectives are assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and cr...
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Sergeant Ryker
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then return...
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The President's Plane Is Missing
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly we...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous mo...
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recentl...
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Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait
A&E Biography about life and times of the beautiful actress of the '40s and feature interview of...
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed d...
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Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion
This poignant portrait is highlighted by talks with those who knew and worked with Mother Teresa -- ...
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Men in Black II
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress...
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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...
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Call to Danger
A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and h...
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The Guns and the Fury
Two turn of the Century fortune hunters (Peter Graves and Cameron Mitchell) discover oil in Persia a...
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300 Miles for Stephanie
A San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his crit...
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Gallegher Goes West
In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a ...
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The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was mur...
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Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
Jim Phelps leads the IMF on an assignment to destroy a criminal empire headed by Frank Wayne....
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The Underground Man
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a s...
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Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
A biography of comedian double act Bud Abbott & Lou Costello...
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Gettysburg - An American Story
The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment fought bravely and gallantly during the Civil War. The...
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William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama
William Shakespeare's life produced an unmatched legacy of drama and poetry. But the Bard's own stor...
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The Demon Lover
When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happe...
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Darkstar: Terror at the Edge of Time
With the destruction of planet Earth imminent, four spaceships are deployed with an impossible missi...
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Aliens from Space
A group of extra-terrestrials determined to take over the earth and make it their new home, station ...
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Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell
Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series....
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Mission: Impossible - The Slave
The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a s...
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Mission: Impossible - The Bunker
Dr. Erich Rojak, a brilliant scientist, is being held in an underground bunker containing a laborato...
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Mission: Impossible - The Controllers
An Eastern Bloc nation is trying to develop a mind-controlling drug, a project led by Dr. Karl Turek...
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Mission: Impossible - The Falcon
Prince Stephan's death has been faked by General Sabattini; leaving Stephan's childlike cousin Nicol...
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Mission: Impossible - The Golden Serpent
Jim Phelps and his team of agents get the mission to destroy a South East Asian drug smuggling organ...
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Under the Law: Arrest and Seize
The second of three educational films made by Philip Abbott. A Nelson Company Production for Nationa...
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Don't Ask Don't Tell
Hilarious re-dubbed sci-fi spoof features "fabulous" aliens "turning" the military gay with their sp...
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