Peter Graves

Actor Peter Graves Found Dead

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Actor Peter Graves was found dead Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to law enforcement sources.

Graves, who stared in “Mission: Impossible," “Airplane!" and Billy Wilder's “Stalag 17"--apparently died of natural causes, the sources said.

Graves was 83, according to a biography on the website IMDB.com, was the younger brother of Gunsmoke's star James Arness.

In a Times story late last year, Graves said he initially turned down the role for “Airplane!" because he thought it was in ...
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