Peter Graves
Peter Aurness (March 18, 1926 - March 14, 2010), better known as Peter Graves, was an American actor born in Minnesota. Graves married Joan Endress in 1950. They had three daughters; Kelly, Claudia and Amanda. Graves was also the younger brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness. This fact inspired the MST3K song "Celebrity Siblings".
Peter Graves is best-known for his starring role in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 and again from 1988 to 1990. He won a Golden Globe award in 1971 for his role as Jim Phelps in the series. He did not play Phelps in the 1996 Mission: Impossible feature film, and was reportedly bothered by not having been asked and by how the character was depicted in the film.
In addition to Mission: Impossible, he is especially well-known for the following roles:
- Price, one of the POWs held in Stalag 17.
- Captain Clarence Oveur in Airplane! and its sequel.
- Colonel John Camden on the WB TV drama 7th Heaven.
- Host of the documentary series Biography on A&E.
During a host segment for Episode #517, Crow T. Robot writes a screenplay about Peter Graves' time at the University of Minnesota, Peter Graves at the University of Minnesota.
Graves' final released work was narration for the video game/movie Darkstar, though his work had been recorded years earlier. The game also features several MST3K alumni.
Riffed Movies[]
- SST- Death Flight (Episode #K13) - as Paul Whitley
- It Conquered the World (Episode #311) - as Dr. Paul Nelson
- Attack of the the Eye Creatures (Episode #418) - as Narrator of USAF Briefing Film
- Beginning of the End (Episode #517) - as Dr. Ed Wainwright
- Parts: The Clonus Horror (Episode #811) - as Jeffrey Knight
- Killers from Space (The Film Crew, Attack of the Killer B Movies, and RiffTrax) - as Dr. Douglas Paul Martin
- Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (RiffTrax) - as Alec Frankin
- Where Have All the People Gone (Movie Jo Night) - as Steven Anders
- Scream of the Wolf (Movie Jo Night) - as John Weatherby
Filmography[]
- Winning Your Wings (1942) (short subject)
- Up Front (1951)
- Fort Defiance (1951)
- The Congregation (1952)
- Red Planet Mars (1952)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- War Paint (1953)
- East of Sumatra (1953)
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
- Killers from Space (1954)
- The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
- The Raid (1954)
- Black Tuesday (1954)
- Fort Yuma (1955)
- The Long Gray Line (1955)
- Robbers' Roost (1955)
- Wichita (1955)
- The Naked Street (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
- It Conquered the World (1956)
- Hold Back the Night (1956)
- Canyon River (1956)
- Beginning of the End (1957)
- Bayou (1957)
- Death in Small Doses (1957)
- Wolf Larsen (1958)
- A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
- A Rage to Live (1965)
- Texas Across the River (1966)
- The Ballad of Josie (1967)
- Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob (1968) (compilation of episodes released to European theaters)
- Sergeant Ryker (1968)
- The Five Man Army (1969)
- Sidecar Racers (1975)
- The Mysterious Monsters (1976) (documentary) (narrator)
- SST- Death Flight (1977) (TV)
- High Seas Hijack (1978) (in English version)
- Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
- Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
- Survival Run (1980)
- Airplane! (1980)
- The Guns and the Fury (1981)
- Savannah Smiles (1982)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
- The Winds of War (1983)
- Number One with a Bullet (1987)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- Men in Black II (2002)