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Peter Graves

Mar 15, 2010 11:58

OMG Peter Graves has passed on at age 83! Most people remember him from the original "Mission: Impossible" and the "Airplane" movies but when I was little I had a crush on him when he starred in "Fury" where he played a rancher named Jim Newton who takes in an orphaned boy and this beautiful black stallion (I must admit though that I may have ( Read more... )

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dolnmoon March 15 2010, 21:16:28 UTC

Did you know that Peter Graves was the brother of James Arness who played Marshall Matt Dillon on Gun Smoke... Yep True story.. lol

I liked Peter Graves he voiced a lot of things and did a lot of commercials in the last few years too.

shakatany March 16 2010, 02:19:51 UTC

Oh yes I knew about the brothers Aurness years ago. PG had a lovely distinctive voice and I was glad he could earn a living that way when screen parts dried up.

I never could watch the "Mission: Impossible" movies because they turned Jim Phelps into the villain.

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shakatany March 19 2010, 21:16:44 UTC

I never knew that What - that they made Jim Phelps the villain? When Peter Lupus saw that he walked out of the movie theater.

Well we didn't get our first TV until I was 7 so I was firmly a booklover but I did watch a lot of TV especially after my mother was sick and then passed on. It was my escape along with books and because of that I never lost myself in drugs or booze.

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