Peter Graves

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1926-03-18

Died: 2010-03-14

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Fury	Jim Newton	0
2	1951	Rogue River	Pete Dandridge	0
3	1951	Fort Defiance	Ned Tallon	63
4	1951	Angels in the Outfield	Radio Announcer (uncredited)	67
5	1952	The Congregation		0
6	1952	Red Planet Mars	Chris Cronyn	47
7	1953	Stalag 17	Sgt. Frank Price	77
8	1953	War Paint	Trooper Tolson	55
9	1953	East of Sumatra	Cowboy	55
10	1953	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef	Arnold Dix	58
11	1954	Killers from Space	Douglas Martin	37
12	1954	The Yellow Tomahawk	Sawyer	60
13	1954	The Raid	Capt. Frank Dwyer	65
14	1954	Black Tuesday	Peter Manning	59
15	1955	The Long Gray Line	Corporal Rudolph Heinz	69
16	1955	Robbers' Roost	Heesman	58
17	1955	Wichita	Morgan Earp	63
18	1955	The Naked Street	Joe McFarland	60
19	1955	The Night of the Hunter	Ben Harper	79
20	1955	Fort Yuma	Lt. Ben Keegan	52
21	1955	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	Capt. Bob Elliott	68
22	1956	It Conquered the World	Dr. Paul Nelson	48
23	1956	Hold Back The Night	Lt. Lee Couzens	63
24	1956	Canyon River	Bob Andrews	64
25	1957	Bayou	Martin Davis	26
26	1957	Beginning of the End	Dr. Ed Wainwright	38
27	1957	Death in Small Doses	Agent / Tom Kaylor	50
28	1958	Wolf Larsen	Van Weyden	0
29	1959	A Stranger in My Arms	Donald Beasley	23
30	1965	A Rage to Live	Jack Hollister	47
31	1966	Texas Across the River	Capt. Stimpson	56
32	1966	Gallegher Goes West	Marshal Neimeyer	0
33	1967	Valley of Mystery	Ben Barstow	50
34	1967	I'll Never Forget What's'isname	Bankman	56
35	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	65
36	1968	The Ballad of Josie	Jason Meredith	57
37	1968	Sergeant Ryker	Maj. Whitaker	65
38	1968	The Dean Martin Christmas Show	Self (uncredited)	76
39	1969	The Assassination Bureau	Dragomiloff's Butler (uncredited)	64
40	1969	The 5-Man Army	Dutchman	66
41	1969	Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob	Jim Phelps	100
42	1970	The Adventurers	Trustee Banker	45
43	1973	Call to Danger	Doug Warfield	0
44	1973	The President's Plane Is Missing	Mark Jones	62
45	1974	Scream of the Wolf	John Wetherby	63
46	1974	Paul and Michelle	Sir Henry	55
47	1974	The Underground Man	Lew Archer	0
48	1974	Where Have All the People Gone	Steven Anders	60
49	1975	Dead Man on the Run	Jim Gideon	60
50	1975	Sidecar Racers	Carson	25
51	1976	The Mysterious Monsters	Himself - Narrator	58
52	1977	SST: Death Flight	Paul Whitley	53
53	1977	High Seas Hijack	Elliott Rhoades	100
54	1978	Race for Survival	Narrator	0
55	1979	Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident	Alec Franklin	28
56	1979	Survival Run	Kandaris	27
57	1979	The Rebels	George Washington	0
58	1979	Parts: The Clonus Horror	Jeff Knight	45
59	1979	Death Car on the Freeway	Lt. Haller	53
60	1980	Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty	TV Director	65
61	1980	The Memory of Eva Ryker	Mike Rogers	60
62	1980	Airplane!	Capt. Clarence Oveur	73
63	1981	300 Miles for Stephanie	Capt. McIntyre	0
64	1982	Savannah Smiles	Harland Dobbs	64
65	1982	Airplane II: The Sequel	Capt. Clarence Oveur	61
66	1983	The Guns and the Fury	Mark Janser	0
67	1984	Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street	Tom Collins	56
68	1986	The Demon Lover	Ponsonby	0
69	1987	Number One with a Bullet	Capt. Ferris	42
70	1987	platinum bombshell		0
71	1993	Addams Family Values	Host	70
72	1994	Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess	Self - Host	68
73	1994	The Unexplained: Witches, Werewolves & Vampires	Host	0
74	1995	Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons	Self - Narrator (voice)	80
75	1995	Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker	Self - Host	40
76	1996	Abbott & Costello Meet Biography	Self - Host	0
77	1996	William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama		0
78	1996	Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown	Host	60
79	1997	Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion	Self - Host	0
80	1998	Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life	Self - Narrator	0
81	1998	Doris Day: It's Magic	Narrator	0
82	1999	Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait	Self - Host	10
83	1999	Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel	Narrator	0
84	1999	House on Haunted Hill	Himself	56
85	2001	These Old Broads	Bill	65
86	2002	Men in Black II	Peter Graves	64
87	2002	Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'	Self (archive footage)	57
88	2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Host of Civil Defense Film	63
89	2003	America on the Move 1876-2000	Host	0
90	2004	Behind the Legend: Timon	Himself - Host	0
91	2004	The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made	Dr. Doug Paul Martin (archive footage)	46
92	2005	Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Featuring Audra McDonald and Peter Graves	Self	100
93	2009	What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar	Self	77
94	2014	Gettysburg - An American Story	Narrator	0
95	2022	Mystery Reel		0
96		Darkstar: Terror at The Edge of Time	Narrator	0
97		Aliens from Space	Doug Martin	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	68
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
3	1948	Studio One	Glenn Willis	47
4	1949	Fireside Theater		70
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Joel Barker	60
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Rocky Kent	70
7	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. James Ewing	87
8	1952	Cavalcade of America	Maj. Tom Howie	35
9	1952	Biff Baker U.S.A.		75
10	1953	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse		0
11	1954	Studio 57		0
12	1954	Climax!	Stanley	30
13	1954	Climax!	Steve Baxter	30
14	1955	The Millionaire	Paul Hartley	50
15	1955	Celebrity Playhouse		0
16	1955	Fury	Jim Newton	59
17	1955	Matinee Theater		46
18	1958	Cimarron City		50
19	1960	Route 66		63
20	1961	Whiplash	Christopher Cobb	68
21	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
22	1962	The Virginian	Robert Gaynor	64
23	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Mark Needham	78
24	1963	The Farmer's Daughter		50
25	1963	The Great Adventure	Daniel Boone	0
26	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Maj. Frank Whitaker	53
27	1964	12 O'Clock High		73
28	1964	Daniel Boone	Logan Harris	69
29	1965	Branded		64
30	1965	Court Martial	Major Frank Whittaker	60
31	1965	Run for Your Life	Jim Carlson	72
32	1965	Laredo		63
33	1965	The Dean Martin Show		73
34	1965	The F.B.I.	Manning Fryes	55
35	1966	Mission: Impossible	Jim Phelps	76
36	1967	The Invaders	Gavin Lewis	68
37	1968	Premiere		0
38	1971	Funny Face		50
39	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
40	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
41	1976	The Sonny and Cher Show		60
42	1977	The Love Boat	Gerald Whitney	63
43	1977	The Love Boat	Leonard Culver	63
44	1977	The Love Boat	Carl Lawrence	63
45	1979	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Major Noah Cooper	69
46	1981	Simon & Simon		67
47	1983	The Winds of War	Palmer 'Fred' Kirby	73
48	1984	Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense	John Bray	64
49	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Edmund Gerard	75
50	1985	The Golden Girls	Jerry Kennedy	75
51	1986	Life with Lucy	Ben Marshall	83
52	1988	Mission: Impossible	Jim Phelps	75
53	1988	War and Remembrance	Palmer Kirby	79
54	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
55	1993	Unauthorized Biographies with Peter Graves	Self - Narrator	0
56	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Peter Graves	71
57	1994	Burke's Law	General Prescott	67
58	1995	Screen Actors Guild Awards		62
59	1996	7th Heaven	John "Colonel" Camden	64
60	1997	The Angry Beavers		69
61	1999	Mickey Mouse Works		67
62	2001	Disney's House of Mouse	Instructor Voice (voice)	74
63	2003	Cold Case	Anton Bikker (2006)	78
64	2004	House	Myron	86
65	2005	American Dad!	Mr. Pibb (voice)	70
66	2005	Minoriteam	Sheldon Miller	68