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Biography: Peter Graves

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Number One with a Bullet (1987)
Cast: Robert Carradine
Tags: Drama Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 103min
Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different...
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The Guns and the Fury (1983)
Tags: Action Thriller Adventure Drama Action Adventure
Length: 103min
In this period adventure, Cameron Mitchell and Peter Graves star as a pair of Americans seeking their fortune overseas at the dawn of the 20th century. When they discover valuable oil reserves in Persia, they attempt to claim them for themselves, but...
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Savannah Smiles (1982)
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Crime Comedy
Length: 107min
Savannah Smiles is a sweet little film that proved a surprising hit on the Saturday matinee circuit. Mark Miller and Donovan Scott play a pair of good-natured escaped convicts who cross the path of precocious runaway Bridgette Andersen. When Andersen...
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Airplane! (1980)
Cast: Peter Graves Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges David Zucker Jerry Zucker Leslie Nielsen
Tags: Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 88min
This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot...
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Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Horror Science Fiction
Length: 90min
This routine, relatively low-budget horror film with a few well-known actors (Peter Graves, Keenan Wynn) unfolds a tale that has echoes in George Orwell's -1984 or in various sci-fi movies. The premise: Americans have not realized that their...
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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Cast: William Shatner Rip Torn
Tags: Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 85min
With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while...
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Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie (1980)
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
In this drama, a policeman tries to get God to heal his brain-damaged daughter by promising to run the 320 miles between San Antonio and the Shrine of San Juan de los Lagos. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Survival Run (1980)
Cast: Ray Milland
Length: 90min
In this youthful adventure, six adolescents head for a vacation in Arizona and end up stranded in the desert after their car crashes. They decide to hike to the closest town. En route they encounter drug smugglers who are willing to kill to keep their...
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The Mysterious Monsters (1975)
Tags: Unexplained Phenomena Culture & Society
Length: 86min
Delve into the mysteries of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Abominable Snowman. Peter Graves serves as narrator. ~ All Movie Guide
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Sidecar Racers (1975)
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 100min
In this lively sports drama, Jeff Rayburn has no direction in his life since he competed in the Olympic games as a swimmer. The American had been simply bumming around Australia until he teamed up with biker Dave Ferguson and began sidecar racing....
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