Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Graves and James Arness were best known for their iconic television roles of Jim Phelps and Matt Dillon on Mission ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...