Better known as Peter Graves (he used Graves to avoid confusion with his brother, James Arness) who died from a heart attack 4 days before his 84th birthday. Unusually for Hollywood, he was married to Jane Endress for almost 60 years, from 1950 to the day of his death. Though most remember him from his stints as Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible and Captain Clarence Oveur on the Airplane! movies, I best remember him from his frequent appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and starring as Jim Newton in the series Fury; both I saw in reruns.
He played the heavy for so long, it was good to see him find the fun of doing comedy later in his career.
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