{"id":4132,"date":"2010-03-14T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2021-03-17T21:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:11:56","slug":"peter-graves-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Peter Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z031410peter_graves.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> <strong>died today<\/strong> from what appears to have been a heart attack.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Graves<\/strong> was just <strong>four days shy<\/strong> of his <strong>84th<\/strong> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>My <strong>first memories<\/strong> of <strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> are in his role as<strong> Jim Phelps<\/strong>, the leader on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em><\/a> tv series which ran initially ran from <strong>1967<\/strong> to <strong>1973<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 My <strong>grandfather<\/strong> loved the show, so if I was spending the night. I&#8217;d watch it with him.\u00a0 In fact, it was my <strong>grandfather<\/strong> who made me aware that <strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> was brother to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000790\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Arness<\/strong><\/a> [<strong>Matt Dillon<\/strong> on <strong>Gunsmoke<\/strong>, another show <strong>grandpa<\/strong> never missed].\u00a0 [On a side note, <em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em> was revived from <strong>1988<\/strong> to <strong>1990<\/strong> with <strong>Peter Graves <\/strong>returning in his original role &#8211; the only cast member to do so.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0336335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>scores of movies<\/strong><\/a> including classics like<em><strong> Stalog 17<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>Night of the Hunter<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Many folks will also remember <strong>Mr. Graves<\/strong> best for his role as the pilot, <strong>Clarence Oveur<\/strong>, from the comedy classic, <em><strong>Airplane<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0 Before his starring role on <em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em>, <strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> made guest appearances in dozens of <strong>tv shows<\/strong> including: <em><strong>Route 66<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Branded<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Daniel Boone<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Invaders<\/strong><\/em> and many others.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always enjoyed<strong> Mr. Graves&#8217;<\/strong> appearances, but it&#8217;ll be those hours I spent watching <em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em> with my grandpa that I&#8217;ll remember most fondly.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts and prayers go out to <strong>Peter Graves&#8217; family<\/strong>, <strong>friends<\/strong> and <strong>fans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Graves died today from what appears to have been a heart attack.\u00a0 Mr. Graves was just four days shy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26179,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/26179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}