Airplane! and Mission Impossible actor Peter Graves dies, aged 83
PETER GRAVES, STAR OF THE TELEVISION SERIES MISSION IMPOSSIBLE AND THE AIRPLANE! FILMS, HAS DIED. GRAVES' PUBLICIST, SANDY BROKAW, SAID THE ACTOR DIED SHORTLY AFTER RETURNING TO HIS LOS ANGELES HOME FROM BRUNCH WITH HIS FAMILY. HE WAS 83. THE ACTOR BEST KNOWN FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF JIM PHELPS, LEADER OF A GANG OF SPECIAL AGENTS WHO BATTLED EVIL CONSPIRATORS IN THE LONG-RUNNING TELEVISION SERIES MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.
NORMALLY CAST AS A HERO, HE TURNED IN AN UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE EARLY IN HIS CAREER AS THE TREACHEROUS NAZI SPY IN BILLY WILDER'S 1953 PRISONER OF WAR DRAMA STALAG 17. HE ALSO MASTERFULLY LAMPOONED HIS MACHISMO IMAGE WHEN HE PORTRAYED BUMBLING AIRLINE PILOT CLARENCE OVEUR IN THE 1980 DISASTER MOVIE SPOOF AIRLINE! GRAVES APPEARED IN MORE THAN 70 FILMS, TV SERIES AND TV MOVIES. HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN HIS HOME IN PACIFIC PALISADES SHORTLY AFTER HAVING SUNDAY BRUNCH WITH HIS FAMILY, JUST FOUR DAYS PRIOR TO HIS 84th BIRTHDAY. ACCORDING TO GRAVES' BUSINESS MANAGER, GRAVES DIED OF A HEART ATTACK.
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