Peter Graves Dead at Age 83
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Peter Graves - the star best known for his roles as bumbling airline pilot Clarence Oveur in spoof movie Airplane! and special agent Jim Phelps in the Mission: Impossible TV series - suffered a suspected heart attack at his home on Sunday. He was 83.
The actor was just days away from his 84th birthday and had been out having brunch with his family to before he collapsed. One of his children attempted to resuscitate him but he was unresponsive.
Peter - whose real name was Peter Aurness - starred in more than 70 TV shows and movies, including 1953 classic film Stalag 17, in which he played an undercover Nazi spy, and hit western television series Fury, where he played a horse rancher who befriended an orphan and which ran for five years until 1960.
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