Handprints of Peter Graves in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park
Graves was a devout Methodist[19] of immigrant German Lutheran descent. He was married to Joan Endress Graves for 60 years from 1950 until his death.On March 6, 1984, Graves was hospitalized at Tahoe Forest Hospital for a fractured jaw among other injuries sustained from a fall on an icy Lake Tahoe road the previous weekend.
Peter Graves (born Peter Duesler Aurness; March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010) was an American actor who portrayed Jim Phelps in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 and in its revival from 1988 to 1990. His elder brother was actor James Arness. Graves also played airline pilot Captain Clarence Oveur in the 1980 comedy film Airplane! and its 1982 sequel Airplane II: The Sequel.
