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Peter Graves

Born Peter Duesler Aurness, Peter Graves was an enormously successful film and TV actor, easily recognized for his role in Airplane! and for hosting A&E's signature series Biography.

English

Men in Black II

2002
as Peter Graves

Airplane!

1980
as Captain Oveur

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003
as Host of Civil Defense Film

East of Sumatra

1953
as Cowboy

Paul and Michelle

1974
as Sir Henry

It Conquered the World

1956
as Dr. Paul Nelson

Black Tuesday

1954
as Peter Manning

Wichita

1955
as Morgan

Robbers' Roost

1955
as Heesman

Encore

1951
as Philip Cronshaw

War Paint

1953
as Trooper Tolson

The Long Gray Line

1955
as Cpl. Rudolph Heinz

Gaiety George

1946
as Henry Carter

Sergeant Ryker

1968
as Maj. Whitaker

Mission: Impossible

1966
as James Phelps

Valley of Mystery

1967
as Ben Barstow

Dead Man on the Run

1975
as Jim Gideon

Spring in Park Lane

1948
as Basil Maitland

Beginning of the End

1957
as Dr. Ed Wainwright

Death Car on the Freeway

1979
as Lieutenant Haller

A Rage to Live

1965
as Jack Hollister

Survival Run

1979
as Kandaris

The Naked Street

1955
as Joe McFarland

The Raid

1954
as Capt. Frank Dwyer

Savannah Smiles

1982
as Harland Dobbs

The Woman He Loved

1988
as Lord Reith

Hold Back the Night

1956
as Lt. Lee Couzens

The Ballad of Josie

1967
as Jason Meredith

300 Miles for Stephanie

1981
as Captain McIntyre

Fort Defiance

1951
as Ned Tallon

Fury

1955
as Jim Newton

The Wrong Box

1966
as Military Officer

High Seas Hijack

1977
as Elliott Rhoades (English version only)

Red Planet Mars

1952
as Chris Cronyn

Scream of the Wolf

1974
as John Wetherby

The Memory of Eva Ryker

1980
as Mike Rogers

Miss London Ltd.

1943
as Capt. Rory O'Moore

Derby Day

1952
as Gerald Berkeley

Bayou

1957
as Martin Davis

Killers from Space

1954
as Douglas Martin

The Admirable Crichton

1957
as Brocklehurst

Give Us the Moon

1944
as Peter Pyke

Gallegher Goes West

1966
as Marshal Neimeyer

Number One with a Bullet

1987
as Capt. Ferris

Sidecar Racers

1975
as Carson

Spring Song

1946
as Tony Winster

Fort Yuma

1955
as Lt. Ben Keegan

Stalag 17

1953
as Sgt. Frank Price

Bees in Paradise

1944
as peter lovell

The Mysterious Monsters

1975
as Self - Narrator

Biography

1961
as Presenter (1987–1999)

Wolf Larsen

1958
as Van Weyden

Texas Across the River

1966
as Capt. Rodney Stimpson

The Winds of War

1983
as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby

Maytime in Mayfair

1949
as D'Arcy Davenport

Canyon River

1956
as Bob Andrews

Death in Small Doses

1957
as Agent / Tom Kaylor

The Five Man Army

1969
as Dutchman

SST: Death Flight

1977
as Paul Whitley

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982
as Capt. Clarence Oveur

Call to Danger

1973
as Doug Warfield

Director

Episode Gunsmoke
Which Doctor
1966
Episode Mission: Impossible
Kidnap
1972

Guest Star

Episode Branded
The Assassins (1)
1966
Episode Route 66
You Never Had It So Good
1962
Episode Route 66
Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here
1962
Episode Branded
The Assassins (2)
1966
Episode Biography
Frank Zappa
1970
Episode 7th Heaven
The Known Soldier
2002
Episode Cavalcade of America
The Major of St. Louis
1956
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Beginning of the End
1993
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury
1963
Episode Biography
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Touch of Magic
1999
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
It Conquered the World
1991
Episode Burke's Law (1994)
Who Killed the Toy Maker?
1995
Episode Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense
Tennis Court
1986
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
SST Death Flight
1989
Episode Life with Lucy
Love Among the Two-by-Fours
1986
Episode Fantasy Island
The Flight of the Great Yellow Bird / The Island of Lost Women
1978
Episode House
Love Hurts
2005
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Parts: The Clonus Horror
1997
Episode Biography
Edgar Allan Poe: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe
1994
Episode Diagnosis Murder
Must Kill TV
1997
Episode The Golden Girls
Mother Load
1991
Episode Biography
Betty Grable: Behind The Pin-Up
1995
Episode Cold Case
The Hen House
2006
Episode Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Return of the Fighting 69th
1979
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Lovers and Other Killers
1984
Episode The Film Crew
Killers From Space
2007
Episode Fantasy Island
Hit Man / The Swimmer
1979
Episode American Dad!
A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial
2007
Episode Daniel Boone
Run a Crooked Mile
1966
Episode Cimarron City
The Unaccepted
1959
Episode Simon & Simon
Details at Eleven
1981
Episode Ushuaïa nature
Prélude au crépuscule d'une faune (Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzanie, Zimbabwe)
2001
Episode The F.B.I.
Rope of Gold
1967
Episode The Red Skelton Show
Pop, the Astronaut
1969
Episode The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
Killers From Space (1954)
2009
Episode The Invaders
Moonshot
1967