# Peter Graves, RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501 "2010-03-15T02:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/21 "2010-03-15T04:16:24Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > As an old guy, I remember him on Saturday mornings as Jim Graves in “Fury” and as Price in Stalag 17 YES! One of my fave childhood shows was “Fury”!! He had a good run, and I wish his family peace. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/22 "2010-03-15T05:33:44Z")
Thank goodness the cause of death wasn’t food poisoning from eating bad fish. Airplane “Who’s on First” spoof. Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9’er, you are cleared for take-off. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9’er. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Victor Basta: Request vector, over. Captain Oveur: What? Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9’er cleared for vector 324. Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor? Tower voice: Tower’s radio clearance, over! Captain Oveur: That’s Clarence Oveur. Over. Tower voice: Over. Captain Oveur: Roger. Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: Roger, over! Roger Murdock: What? Captain Oveur: Huh? Victor Basta: Who? RIP-Captain Oveur ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/23 "2010-03-15T05:55:32Z")
Peter’s role in Stalag 17 was one of his best. He played that Nazi infiltrator perfectly. It’s one of the few times Peter Graves play the bad guy. I still remember that scene where the prisoners throws Price out in the prison yard with tin cans tied on him. The German guards machine gun their own spy. Great scene. > [@LH75](#): > > As an old guy, I remember him on Saturday mornings as Jim Graves in “Fury” and as Price in Stalag 17 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/24 "2010-03-15T09:19:33Z")
He was great in Stalag 17. Not yet mentioned, he had also won a Prime-Time Emmy award as host of “Biography” on A&E. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/25 "2010-03-15T12:13:55Z")
It’d be sad if he was remembered mainly for his role in \*\*Airplane![/B, or even for **Biography** (noted twice above). I remember him as the second leader for **Mission Impossible** and for various roles, including _Stalag 17_ and the truly awful _Killers from Space_. Sad to see him go. I’m surprised I didn’t hear a tribute to him this morning on the radio – Tom Doyle does a killer Peter Graves imitation on WROR’s morning show, usually announcing some new episode of _Biography_. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/26 "2010-03-15T12:34:22Z")
_The Begining of the End_ was truly his Magnum Opus. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/27 "2010-03-15T14:28:14Z")
Since I’m too young to remember him in his older works, I will have to go watch Airplane! tonight in his honor. He did have a really great voice. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/28 "2010-03-15T14:31:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I remember him as the second leader for **Mission Impossible** Who was the first? I’ve never heard of _Fury_. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/29 "2010-03-15T14:36:22Z")
> [@Elysium](#): > > He did have a really great voice. He hosted an in interesting, uh, “documentary” in the 1970s called “The Mysterious Monsters,” which dealt with Bigfoot and Nessie. He also was the narrator for a syndicated series called “Other People, Other Places.” I don’t remember a thing about that program other than it showed various “tribes” around the world. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/30 "2010-03-15T14:44:58Z")
I guess he finally ran out of clones. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/31 "2010-03-15T14:48:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Who was the first? Steven Hill as Daniel Briggs for the first season. He later went on to play DA Adam Schiff on _Law and Order_ for 10 years > **["Mission: Impossible" Pilot (TV Episode 1966) ⭐ 7.7 | Action, Crime, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649265/)** > > 1h | TV-PG One thing I liked about Graves – they _DID_ do an episode of _Biography_ about him. They ended it with a clip of Graves singing (!!!) on _The Dean Martin Show_. I didn’t know he could do that. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/32 "2010-03-15T15:01:11Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > _The Begining of the End_ was truly his Magnum Opus. Is that a movie about gladiators? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/33 "2010-03-15T15:06:57Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > _The Begining of the End_ was truly his Magnum Opus. > [@fuzzypickles](#): > > Is that a movie about gladiators? Ever seen a giant grasshopper naked? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/34 "2010-03-15T15:13:41Z")
You know, when I think of Peter Graves (which normally isn’t very often), it’s that giant grasshopper movie that I think of first! Childhood impressions, I guess. He did a good job of making one on me. RIP…TRM ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/35 "2010-03-15T17:09:28Z")
I grew up watching him on Mission Impossible. Still pissed at that Tom Cruise movie which crapped all over his character’s good name. Then, of course, he is fondly remembered from my adulthood for Airplane! Rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/36 "2010-03-15T17:15:32Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > Along with _Airplane!_, I remember him as one of the hosts of A&E’s _Biography_ Picture the following in Peter Graves’ \*Biography \*voice (courtesy of MST3K, parts: the clonus horror) As a young boy, James Arness nurtured a howling bitterness in the face of the awesomely superior talent of his brother, Peter Graves. Peter Graves’ life and career were marked by a generosity of spirit and loving attitude towards his fellow man, which were altogether missing in the pitted soul of James Arness. Often, James Arness’ mother would remark to friends that she loved her son Peter Graves so very, very much; while she hated James Arness and cursed the day her womb had been blighted with such a creature. “James Arness: Ugly and Stupid”…tonight on “Biography.” ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/37 "2010-03-15T17:22:42Z")
Crow T. Robot’s screenplay on Peter Graves’ student years at the University of Minnesota. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gy0Gd2-GdOI/hqdefault.jpg "MST3K Host Segment - Crow as Peter Graves") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy0Gd2-GdOI) Also worthy of remembering, Phil Hartman’s Peter Graves’ impression. Double RIP. Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/38 "2010-03-15T17:25:15Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Peter’s role in Stalag 17 was one of his best. He played that Nazi infiltrator perfectly. That was him? I did not know that. I’ll have to watch it again this week. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/39 "2010-03-15T23:10:33Z")
Damn. I _loved_ **Mission: Impossible** when I was a kid. I heard about this on NPR this morning and got the giggles when they played a clip of an interview with him where he was talking about doing scenes with Leslie Nielsen and trying not to crack up. _“How long before you can land this plane?” “I’m afraid I can’t tell you that.” “You can tell me. I’m a doctor.”_ Then it started again while I was listening to another NPR story about him just a little while ago. _“You ever been in a cockpit before?” “No sir! I’ve never been in an airplane!” “You ever seen a grown man naked?”_ I need to go watch that movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501/40 "2010-03-16T03:37:04Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > As an old guy, I remember him on Saturday mornings as Jim Graves in “Fury” **and as Price in Stalag 17** “Yes, I’m from Cleveland!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-graves-rip/532501.md?page=3)