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Peter Graves
Birthday: March 18, 1926

Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Height: 6' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Peter Graves. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

The younger brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness, American actor Peter Graves worked as a musician and radio actor before entering films with 1950's Rogue River. At first, it appeared that Graves would be the star of the family, since he was cast in leads while brother Jim languished in secondary roles. Then came Stalag 17 (1953), in which Graves was first-rate as a supposedly all-American POW who turned out to be a vicious Nazi spy. Trouble was, Graves played the part too well, and couldn't shake the Nazi stereotype in the eyes of most Hollywood producers. Suddenly the actor found himself in such secondary roles as Shelley Winters' doomed husband in Night of the Hunter (1955) (he was in and out of the picture after the first ten minutes), while sibling James Arness was riding high with Gunsmoke. Dissatisfied with his film career, Graves signed on in 1955 for a network kid's series about "a horse and the boy who loved him." Fury wasn't exactly Citizen Kane, but it ran five years and made Graves a wealthy man through rerun residuals—so much so that he claimed to be making more money from Fury than his brother did from Gunsmoke. In 1966, Peter Graves replaced Steven Hill as head honcho of the force on the weekly TV adventure series Mission: Impossible, a stint that lasted until 1973. Though a better than average actor, Graves gained something of a camp reputation for his stiff, straight-arrow film characters and was often cast in films that parodied his TV image. One of the best of these lampoonish appearances was in the Zucker-Abrahams comedy Airplane (1980), in which Graves played a deceptively macho-male airline pilot who leeringly asked an admiring young boy "Say...do you like gladiator movies?" This "out of closet" appearance apart, Peter Graves has effortlessly maintained his reliable, authoritative movie persona into the '90s, successfully replacing Edward Herrmann as the resident documentary host on cable's Arts and Entertainment Network.

Movie Credits
Darkstar (2006)
Behind the Legend: Timon (2004)
[ Nathan Lane ][ Ernie Sabella ]
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
[ Steve Martin ][ Brendan Fraser ][ Ron Perlman ][ Elvis Presley ][ Timothy Dalton ]
With You in Spirit (2003)
Holy War: Part 2 (2002)
[ Adam LaVorgna ]
The Known Soldier (2002)
Changes (2001)
These Old Broads (2001)
[ Jonathan Silverman ][ Kevin Nealon ][ Nestor Carbonell ]
Help! (2000)
Addams Family Values (1993)
[ Christopher Lloyd ][ Tony Shalhoub ][ David Krumholtz ][ David Hyde Pierce ][ Nathan Lane ]
Church Bells in Bogota (1990)
The Gunslinger (1990)
The Assassin (1990)
Cargo Cult (1990)
Number One with a Bullet (1987)
[ Jon Gries ][ Robert Carradine ][ Mykelti Williamson ][ Billy Dee Williams ]
Best of Friends (1987)
[ Ernest Hemingway ]
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
[ Claude Akins ]
Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling (1984)
[ Richard Kiel ]
A Very Strange Affair/The Sailor (1982)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
[ William Shatner ][ Rip Torn ][ Raymond Burr ][ Hervé Villechaize ][ David Paymer ]
Savannah Smiles (1982)
[ Pat Morita ][ John Fiedler ][ Chris Robinson ]
Missile X - Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe (1981)
Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie (1981)
[ Edward James Olmos ]
The Guns and the Fury (1981)
[ Barry Stokes ]
Survival Run (1980)
[ Ray Milland ]
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty (1980)
[ Paul Reubens ][ Regis Philbin ][ Carl Reiner ][ Werner Klemperer ]
Nona/One Million B.C. (1980)
Promoter, The/The Judges/The Family Plan/Forever Engaged/May the Best Man Win: Part 2 (1980)
[ Darren McGavin ][ Brian Kerwin ]
Airplane! (1980)
[ Leslie Nielsen ][ John Williams ][ Robert Stack ][ David Zucker ][ Robert Hays ]
The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980)
[ Roddy McDowall ][ Mel Ferrer ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
[ Abe Vigoda ][ George Hamilton ][ Sid Haig ]
The Clonus Horror (1979)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
The Rebels (1979)
[ Don Johnson ][ William Daniels ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Tom Bosley ][ Doug McClure ]
Hit Man/The Swimmer (1979)
The Gift of the Magi (1978)
The Island of Lost Women/The Flight of Great Yellow Bird (1978)
High Seas Hijack (1978)
Tony's Family/Minister and the Stripper, The/Her Own Two Feet (1978)
[ Van Johnson ]
SST: Death Flight (1977)
[ Billy Crystal ][ Burgess Meredith ][ Regis Philbin ][ Robert Reed ][ Lorne Greene ]
Sidecar Racers (1975)
Dead Man on the Run (1975)
[ Pernell Roberts ]
Where Have All the People Gone? (1974)
[ Noble Willingham ]
The Underground Man (1974)
[ Jack Klugman ][ Bill McKinney ]
Scream of the Wolf (1974)
Boomerang (1973)
[ Peter Lupus ]
Incarnate (1973)
[ Peter Lupus ]
Call to Danger (1973)
[ Clu Gulager ]
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
[ Rip Torn ][ Dabney Coleman ][ Buddy Ebsen ]
The Western (1973)
[ Peter Lupus ]
The Fountain (1973)
[ Peter Lupus ]
Esercito di cinque uomini, Un (1969)
[ Dario Argento ][ Bud Spencer ]
Call to Danger (1968)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
[ Lee Marvin ][ John Williams ][ Norman Fell ]
Mission Impossible Versus the Mob (1968)
[ Martin Landau ][ Peter Lupus ]
Valley of Mystery (1967)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ Richard Egan ]
The Ballad of Josie (1967)
[ George Kennedy ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ John Fiedler ]
Gallegher Goes West: Showdown with the Sundown Kid (1966)
[ Dennis Weaver ]
Texas Across the River (1966)
[ Dean Martin ][ Alain Delon ][ Richard Farnsworth ][ Andrew Prine ]
The Assassins: Part 1 (1966)
[ Chuck Connors ]
The Crusading Reporter (1966)
[ Dennis Weaver ]
A Rage to Live (1965)
[ Ben Gazzara ]
The Eye Creatures (1965)
Kentucky's Bloody Ground (1964)
The Case Against Paul Ryker: Part 1 (1963)
[ Lee Marvin ][ John Williams ][ Norman Fell ]
You Never Had It So Good (1962)
Las Vegas Beat (1961)
[ Jamie Farr ]
A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
Wolf Larsen (1958)
Carnival at Midnight (1957)
[ Buddy Ebsen ]
Death in Small Doses (1957)
[ Chuck Connors ]
Bayou (1957)
Beginning of the End (1957)
Canyon River (1956)
Hold Back the Night (1956)
[ Chuck Connors ]
It Conquered the World (1956)
[ Lee Van Cleef ]
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
[ Robert Mitchum ]
The Naked Street (1955)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Lee Van Cleef ][ Farley Granger ]
Wichita (1955)
[ Jack Elam ][ Joel McCrea ]
Robbers' Roost (1955)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
[ Maureen O'Hara ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ Tyrone Power ][ Ward Bond ]
Fort Yuma (1955)
Joey's Father (1955)
Joey's Dame Trouble (1955)
Joey Finds a Friend (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
[ Gary Cooper ][ Rod Steiger ][ Darren McGavin ][ Ralph Bellamy ][ Robert Urich ]
Bread Upon the Waters (1954)
Beyond the Cross (1954)
Black Tuesday (1954)
The Raid (1954)
[ Lee Marvin ][ James Best ][ Claude Akins ]
The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
[ Lee Van Cleef ][ James Best ]
Killers from Space (1954)
War Paint (1953)
[ Robert Stack ]
Stalag 17 (1953)
[ William Holden ][ Billy Wilder ]
The Suitors (1953)
Melody in Black (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
[ Rock Hudson ][ Robert Wagner ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
East of Sumatra (1953)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Scatman Crothers ]
Red Planet Mars (1952)
The Congregation (1952)
Fort Defiance (1951)
[ Ben Johnson ]
Up Front (1951)
[ Richard Egan ]
Rogue River (1951)
Winning Your Wings (1942)

Trivia

  • Left handed
  • Brother of James Arness.
  • Daughters, with Endress, Kelly, Claudia, and Amanda
  • He said it was almost over for Captain Oveur before the movie Airplane! took flight. Graves said he was astounded when his agent sent him the script for the 1980 spoof, and after reading it, he felt that it was "the worst piece of junk" he ever saw. However, he changed his mind after meeting with the movie's writers, Jerry and David Zucker.
  • He directed the "Gunsmoke" (1955) episode "Which Dr." (His brother, James Arness, was the star of that series.)

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