One of the most popular ‘Mission: Impossible’ stars portraying Jim Phelps is no more and according to reports from family; Peter Graves died off heart attack on Sunday while at the age 83. The efforts from one of his three daughters to revive him didn’t pay off and the legendary actor died at his California house.

The famous television series initially created by Bruce Geller the American composer and TV producer ‘Mission: Impossible’ chronicled an American team’s (comprising of government secret agents) tough missions and team was dubbed as Impossible Missions Force. The IMF was led by Jim Phelps and Dan Briggs played by Peter Graves and Steven Hill, respectively.

The above series featured Peter Graves twice, first in the period 1967 to 1973 and later from 1988 to 1990. During the year 1973, the same was cancelled and Peter reprised the same role on its revival on the television several years later. The death of ‘Airplane!’ movie star occurred in Los Angeles when the family had reportedly taken a Sunday brunch. The news arrived through Fred Barman that used to be his business manager for the actor.

Peter Graves was not the only star in the family, his older brother Jim Arness also was a renowned actor and one of his particular movies earned him lot of fame i.e. ‘Gunsmoke.’ Following the footsteps of his older brother, Peter Graves gained widespread fame among the audience when played pedophile pilot in the movie ‘Airplane!’ and took command of his so called doomed jet.

His kind of dry, deadpan-style overall personality played a key role in his selection for the spoof and burlesque work in the above noted movie and as per his own statement; the filmmakers approached him to convince that he absolutely fits in the role of pilot in question.

Peter Graves