Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 18, 1926. His father, Rolf Aurness, was in surgical sales, and his mother, Ruth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Peter and James Aurness in Minneapolis, the brothers took different professional names and very different paths to stardom.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Peter Graves, who starred in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible" and the "Airplane!" movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 83. Graves' spokesman said the ...

Jim Phelps has accepted his final assignment. Graves, best known as the implacable leader of TV’s Mission: Impossible team from 1967 to ’73, died March 14 at 83. Thus ended a 60-year career in which ...

People tell the best stories about you after you die. Most people think of actor Peter Graves , who passed away Sunday, as Jim Phelps in "Mission: Impossible" or the pilot in "Airplane!" But a few ...

In the ‘60s and ‘70s, Minnesota-born TV icons James Arness and Peter Graves owned the airwaves — but why didn't CBS want you to know they were siblings? Few people knew Peter Graves, left, of "Mission ...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Peter Graves was an iconic film and TV star. He was born in 1926 in Minneapolis, Minn. and first moved to Los Angeles to become an actor in the 1950s. He starred in more than 130 TV ...

Peter Graves, who starred in “Mission: Impossible” and films including “Stalag 17” and “Airplane,” died of natural causes in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Sunday. He was 83. Graves made his mark when ...

One of television's best-kept secrets (that nobody went out of their way to keep secret) is the fact that Peter Graves and James Arness, two of the most iconic leading men of their era, were real-life ...