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Peter Graves

Born Peter Duesler Aurness, Peter Graves was an enormously successful film and TV actor, easily recognized for his role in Airplane! and for hosting A&E's signature series Biography.

English
Filmography

Addams Family Values

1993
as Host

Men in Black II

2002
as Peter Graves

Airplane!

1980
as Captain Oveur

Mission: Impossible

1966
as James Phelps

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003
as Host of Civil Defense Film

East of Sumatra

1953
as Cowboy

Paul and Michelle

1974
as Sir Henry

It Conquered the World

1956
as Dr. Paul Nelson

Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

1984
as Tom Collins

Black Tuesday

1954
as Peter Manning

Wichita

1955
as Morgan

Robbers' Roost

1955
as Heesman

Encore

1951
as Philip Cronshaw

Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons

1995
as Peter Graves

War Paint

1953
as Trooper Tolson

The Long Gray Line

1955
as Cpl. Rudolph Heinz

The Slipper and the Rose

1976
as General

Ракета Икс - Тайная миссия 'Нейтронная бомба'

1979
as Alec Franklin

Whiplash

1961

Gaiety George

1946
as Henry Carter

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

1969
as Jim Phelps

Mission: Impossible (1988)

1988
as Jim Phelps

Sergeant Ryker

1968
as Maj. Whitaker

I Hired a Contract Killer

1990
as Jeweller

Valley of Mystery

1967
as Ben Barstow

Dead Man on the Run

1975
as Jim Gideon

Spring in Park Lane

1948
as Basil Maitland

Beginning of the End

1957
as Dr. Ed Wainwright

Death Car on the Freeway

1979
as Lieutenant Haller

A Rage to Live

1965
as Jack Hollister

Parts: The Clonus Horror

1979
as Jeff Knight

Survival Run

1979
as Kandaris

The Naked Street

1955
as Joe McFarland

The Raid

1954
as Capt. Frank Dwyer

Savannah Smiles

1982
as Harland Dobbs

The Woman He Loved

1988
as Lord Reith

What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar

2009
as Himself

Bette Davis: If Looks Could Kill

1994
as Self - Host

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

1980
as TV Director

Hold Back the Night

1956
as Lt. Lee Couzens

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

1967
as Bankman

The Ballad of Josie

1967
as Jason Meredith

300 Miles for Stephanie

1981
as Captain McIntyre

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955
as Capt. Bob Elliott

Fort Defiance

1951
as Ned Tallon

Fury

1955
as Jim Newton

The Wrong Box

1966
as Military Officer

High Seas Hijack

1977
as Elliott Rhoades (English version only)

These Old Broads

2001
as Bill

Red Planet Mars

1952
as Chris Cronyn

Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star

1996
as Narrator

Scream of the Wolf

1974
as John Wetherby

Court Martial

1966

The Memory of Eva Ryker

1980
as Mike Rogers

Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

1996
as Host

Miss London Ltd.

1943
as Capt. Rory O'Moore

Where Have All the People Gone

1974
as Steven Anders

Derby Day

1952
as Gerald Berkeley

Bayou

1957
as Martin Davis

Killers from Space

1954
as Douglas Martin

The Admirable Crichton

1957
as Brocklehurst

Give Us the Moon

1944
as Peter Pyke

The Night of the Hunter

1955
as Ben Harper

Gallegher Goes West

1966
as Marshal Neimeyer

Number One with a Bullet

1987
as Capt. Ferris

Sidecar Racers

1975
as Carson

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973
as Mark Jones

Spring Song

1946
as Tony Winster

Fort Yuma

1955
as Lt. Ben Keegan

Stalag 17

1953
as Sgt. Frank Price

Bees in Paradise

1944
as peter lovell

The Mysterious Monsters

1975
as Self - Narrator

Biography

1961
as Presenter (1987–1999)

The Yellow Tomahawk

1954
as Sawyer

Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

1999
as Himself - Host

Wolf Larsen

1958
as Van Weyden

Texas Across the River

1966
as Capt. Rodney Stimpson

The Winds of War

1983
as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby

Maytime in Mayfair

1949
as D'Arcy Davenport

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium

1987
as Mr. Wainwright

Canyon River

1956
as Bob Andrews

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

1953
as Arnold Dix

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess

1994
as Self - Host

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

1998
as Peter Graves

Death in Small Doses

1957
as Agent / Tom Kaylor

The Five Man Army

1969
as Dutchman

The Guns and the Fury

as Mark Janser

SST: Death Flight

1977
as Paul Whitley

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982
as Capt. Clarence Oveur

Call to Danger

1973
as Doug Warfield

Director

Episode Gunsmoke
Which Doctor 		1966
Episode Mission: Impossible
Kidnap 		1972

Guest Star

Episode Branded
The Assassins (1) 		1966
Episode Route 66
You Never Had It So Good 		1962
Episode Route 66
Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here 		1962
Episode Branded
The Assassins (2) 		1966
Episode Biography
Frank Zappa 		1970
Episode 7th Heaven
The Known Soldier 		2002
Episode Cavalcade of America
The Major of St. Louis 		1956
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Beginning of the End 		1993
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury 		1963
Episode Biography
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Touch of Magic 		1999
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
It Conquered the World 		1991
Episode Burke's Law (1994)
Who Killed the Toy Maker? 		1995
Episode Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense
Tennis Court 		1986
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
SST: Death Flight 		1989
Episode Life with Lucy
Love Among the Two-by-Fours 		1986
Episode Fantasy Island
The Flight of the Great Yellow Bird / The Island of Lost Women 		1978
Episode House
Love Hurts 		2005
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Parts: The Clonus Horror 		1997
Episode Biography
Edgar Allan Poe: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe 		1994
Episode Diagnosis Murder
Must Kill TV 		1997
Episode The Golden Girls
Mother Load 		1991
Episode Biography
Betty Grable: Behind The Pin-Up 		1995
Episode Cold Case
The Hen House 		2006
Episode Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Return of the Fighting 69th 		1979
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Lovers and Other Killers 		1984
Episode The Film Crew
Killers From Space 		2007
Episode Fantasy Island
Hit Man / The Swimmer 		1979
Episode American Dad!
A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial 		2007
Episode Daniel Boone
Run a Crooked Mile 		1966
Episode Cimarron City
The Unaccepted 		1959
Episode Simon & Simon
Details at Eleven 		1981
Episode Ushuaïa nature
Prélude au crépuscule d'une faune (Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzanie, Zimbabwe) 		2001
Episode The F.B.I.
Rope of Gold 		1967
Episode The Red Skelton Show
Pop, the Astronaut 		1969
Episode The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
Killers From Space (1954) 		2009
Episode The Invaders
Moonshot 		1967