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This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« on: March 14, 2010, 09:25:12 PM »
Peter Graves, star of 'Mission Impossible', was found dead at his LA area home of natural causes.  He was 83 and is the brother of James Arness of Gunsmoke.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 09:34:38 PM »
That's sad to hear. I always like him as an actor, and he seemed to be a stand-up guy as well, even if he did rat out the guys in the barracks. :)
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 09:36:39 PM »
"Do like movies about gladiators?"

RIP.

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2010, 09:39:29 PM »
Quote from: Ben on March 14, 2010, 09:34:38 PM
That's sad to hear. I always like him as an actor, and he seemed to be a stand-up guy as well, even if he did rat out the guys in the barracks. :)

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2010, 09:48:57 PM »
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2010, 10:25:03 PM »

From the It's-A-Small-World department: I mentioned Graves' passing to a friend of mine, who replied that her mother used to babysit him and his brother when they lived in Minneapolis.

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2010, 10:32:49 PM »
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2010, 11:46:21 PM »
RIP

IIRC his brother is James Arness of Gunsmoke fame.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2010, 11:54:36 PM »
Yeah, his brother was Marshall Dillon.  I didn't know that until today.

Sad to see him go.  I always liked him.  Airplane was my favorite performance of his.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2010, 02:01:53 AM »
Would it be disrespectful to wonder if he was killed by a self-destructing tape?   :angel:

But, yeah, great work on Airplane. 
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2010, 02:40:12 AM »
It's over, Oveur.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2010, 09:11:51 AM »
Until I saw "Airplane", I never saw Graves in a comedy.

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2010, 11:54:56 AM »
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Would it be disrespectful to wonder if he was killed by a self-destructing tape?   :angel:

No, he ate the fish.

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Oh, RIP.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2010, 12:51:43 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sp-BYkOGkw

Someone put this up on Youtube.  All of his clips from Airplane!

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2010, 12:58:33 PM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 14, 2010, 11:46:21 PM
RIP

IIRC his brother is James Arness of Gunsmoke fame.

Your memory is as photographic as mine. I too, remembered reading that fact in the OP!  :P =D

RIP Peter. =(
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2010, 01:12:39 PM »
I gotta see Airplane! again, soon.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2010, 04:35:56 PM »
Quote from: jfruser on March 15, 2010, 01:12:39 PM
I gotta see Airplane! again, soon.

Interestingly, I watched it last week.

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2010, 06:34:10 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on March 14, 2010, 09:36:39 PM
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2010, 05:07:59 PM »
Great Actor no matter the role.  From Stalag 17 to Mission Impossible to Airplane.

RIP

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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2010, 06:24:24 PM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 14, 2010, 11:46:21 PM
RIP

IIRC his brother is James Arness of Gunsmoke fame.
Is James still alive?  Years ago I was traveling from WDC to Dallas and as I was getting off the plane Peter was napping in a front row seat. Probably headed for la la land.
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Re: This just in: Actor Peter Graves is dead
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2010, 01:57:27 AM »
Oh crap.  Now I have to tell my mother - he was a year ahead of her at Washburn Sr. High School.  Now to go through the "I knew him when" stuff.
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