Peter Graves, RIP

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YES! One of my fave childhood shows was “Fury”!!

He had a good run, and I wish his family peace.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Begining of the End was truly his Magnum Opus.

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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.

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Who was the first?

I’ve never heard of Fury.

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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.

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I guess he finally ran out of clones. RIP.

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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

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.

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Is that a movie about gladiators?

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Ever seen a giant grasshopper naked?

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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

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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.

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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.”

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Crow T. Robot’s screenplay on Peter Graves’ student years at the University of Minnesota.

Also worthy of remembering, Phil Hartman’s Peter Graves’ impression. Double RIP.
Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

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That was him? I did not know that. I’ll have to watch it again this week.

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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.

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“Yes, I’m from Cleveland!!”