Monday, March 15, 2010

RIP Peter Graves

Some will remember him as Mr. Phelps on both TV versions of Mission: Impossible. Others will remember him as the Nazi spy in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17. Still others will think of him as the airplane pilot who asked young Billy if he liked movies about gladiators or had ever seen a grown man naked. There might even be a few who recall him as the grandpa to the Camden brood on 7th Heaven or as James Arness's kid brother.

Me? I'll always remember him as the guy who saved my hometown, Chicago, from being eaten to the ground in the '50s sci-fi "classic" Beginning of the End.

Thank you, Mr. Graves.

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