Peter Graves Overview:

Actor, Peter Graves, was born Peter Duesler Aurness on Mar 18, 1926 in Minneapolis, MN. Graves died at the age of 84 on Mar 14, 2010 in Pacific Palisades, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Cloris Leachman Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker

By Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

This post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t... Read full article


Cloris Leachman Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker

By Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

This post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t... Read full article


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Peter Graves Quotes:

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Capt. Rodney Stimpson: Take it easy, Yancy. You got a wedding to go to.


Jason Meredith: You know, they say that the admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. I don't know a thing about women. I never did.


Ben Harper: I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps. And I promised myself that I'd never see the day when my young-uns had want.


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Words of remembrance tribute provided by critic Richard Corliss for "Time" magazine's milestones section (Issue: March 29, 2010).

He said it was almost over for Captain Oveur before the movie Airplane! (1980) took flight. Graves said he was astounded when his agent sent him the script for the 1980 spoof, and after reading it, he felt that it was "the worst piece of junk" he had ever seen. However, he changed his mind after meeting with the movie's writers, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker.

He was a registered Republican.

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