Peter Graves

Born: 1926-03-18

Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926 on Minneapolis, Minnesota. While growing up in Minnesota, he excelled at sports and music (as a saxophonist), and by age 16, he was a radio announcer at WMIN in Minneapolis. After two years in the United States Air Force, he studied drama at the University of Minnesota and then headed to Hollywood, where he first appeared on television and later made his film debut in Rogue River (1951). Numerous film appearances followed, especially in Westerns. However, Graves is primarily recognized for his television work, particularly as Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1966). Peter Graves died of a heart attack on March 14, 2010, just four days before his 84th birthday.


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as Peter Graves
Released: 2002-07-03

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister...

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Addams Family Values

as Host
Released: 1993-11-19

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby...

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as Captain Clarence Oveur
Released: 1980-07-02

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew...

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Looney Tunes: Back in Action

as Host of Civil Defense Film
Released: 2003-11-14

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with...

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The Night of the Hunter

as Ben Harper
Released: 1955-08-26

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the...

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Stalag 17

as Sgt. Frank Price
Released: 1953-05-29

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all...

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as Capt. Clarence Oveur
Released: 1982-12-10

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and...

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Wichita

as Morgan Earp
Released: 1955-07-03

Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita...

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Red Planet Mars

as Chris Cronyn
Released: 1952-05-15

Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message...

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The Long Gray Line

as Rudolph Heinz
Released: 1955-02-09

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned...

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The Five Man Army

as Dutchman
Released: 1969-10-16

At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat...

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Killers from Space

as Douglas Martin
Released: 1954-01-23

Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance...

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Angels in the Outfield

as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: 1951-10-19

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little...

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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

as Tom Collins
Released: 1984-01-25

A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a...

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These Old Broads

as Bill
Released: 2001-02-12

Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson,...

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The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1968-01-01

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...

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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

as Capt. Bob Elliott
Released: 1955-12-31

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about...

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Texas Across the River

as Capt. Stimpson
Released: 1966-10-26

The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la...

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Beginning of the End

as Dr. Ed Wainwright
Released: 1957-06-28

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles...

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The Rebels

as George Washington
Released: 1979-05-14

This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an...

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The Raid

as Capt. Frank Dwyer
Released: 1954-08-04

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the...

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Fort Defiance

as Ned Tallon
Released: 1951-10-09

It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to...

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The Ballad of Josie

as Jason Meredith
Released: 1968-02-01

A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.

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Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident

as Alec Franklin
Released: 1979-02-26

An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a...

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Black Tuesday

as Peter Manning
Released: 1954-12-31

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to...

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Sergeant Ryker

as Maj. Whitaker
Released: 1968-02-01

During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then...

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Death Car on the Freeway

as Lt. Haller
Released: 1979-09-24

A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women...

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The Adventurers

as Trustee Banker
Released: 1970-03-25

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was...

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Fort Yuma

as Lt. Ben Keegan
Released: 1955-10-04

Apaches plan to attack a fort by wearing uniforms plundered from a cavalry officer's (Peter...

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Robbers' Roost

as Heesman
Released: 1955-05-30

Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a...

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Savannah Smiles

as Harland Dobbs
Released: 1982-04-09

The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of...

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War Paint

as Trooper Tolson
Released: 1953-08-28

An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace...

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Parts: The Clonus Horror

as Jeff Knight
Released: 1979-08-01

An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.

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The Dean Martin Christmas Show

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1968-12-19

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.

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Where Have All the People Gone

as Steven Anders
Released: 1974-10-08

A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the...

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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Arnold Dix
Released: 1953-12-02

Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of...

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It Conquered the World

as Dr. Paul Nelson
Released: 1956-07-14

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human...

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Number One with a Bullet

as Capt. Ferris
Released: 1987-02-27

Number One with a Bullet is a 1987 American police detective film directed by Jack Smight. A...

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Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

as Jim Phelps
Released: 1969-12-01

The first film based on the television series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, consisting of a compilation...

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SST: Death Flight

as Paul Whitley
Released: 1977-02-25

On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be...

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The Yellow Tomahawk

as Sawyer
Released: 1954-05-01

When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings...

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The Underground Man

as Lew Archer
Released: 1974-05-06

A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in...

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Sidecar Racers

as Carson
Released: 1975-04-30

You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no...

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Paul and Michelle

as Sir Henry
Released: 1974-03-15

Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows...

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Survival Run

as Kandaris
Released: 1979-04-26

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times....

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The Naked Street

as Joe McFarland
Released: 1955-08-01

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal...

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Horrible Horror

as Dr. Doug Paul Martin in 'Killers from Space'
Released: 1986-01-01

A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.

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The Memory of Eva Ryker

as Mike Rogers
Released: 1980-05-05

A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship...

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Hold Back The Night

as Lt. Lee Couzens
Released: 1956-07-29

A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona...

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I'll Never Forget What's'isname

as Bankman
Released: 1967-12-18

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very...

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as Martin Davis
Released: 1957-06-01

A community of Cajun fishermen living around a remote bayou includes one authentic beauty,...

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A Rage to Live

as Jack Hollister
Released: 1965-10-20

Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has...

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Valley of Mystery

as Ben Barstow
Released: 1967-09-29

A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130...

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Dead Man on the Run

as Jim Gideon
Released: 1975-04-02

A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up...

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Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2002-08-15

An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments...

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Canyon River

as Bob Andrews
Released: 1956-08-04

A rancher's foreman schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

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East of Sumatra

as Cowboy
Released: 1953-09-23

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in...

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Call to Danger

as Doug Warfield
Released: 1973-02-27

A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped...

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Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

as TV Director
Released: 1980-02-14

Steve Martin's second NBC special was made up entirely of sketches. Highlights include: Marty...

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Death in Small Doses

as Agent / Tom Kaylor
Released: 1957-09-15

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

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The Guns and the Fury

as Mark Janser
Released: 1983-12-12

Two turn of the Century fortune hunters (Peter Graves and Cameron Mitchell) discover oil in...

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The President's Plane Is Missing

as Mark Jones
Released: 1973-10-23

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the...

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Scream of the Wolf

as John Wetherby
Released: 1974-01-16

A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to...

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High Seas Hijack

as Elliott Rhoades
Released: 1977-10-20

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

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A Stranger in My Arms

as Donald Beasley
Released: 1959-03-03

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

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Rogue River

as Pete Dandridge
Released: 1951-02-15

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000...

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Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion

as Himself - Host
Released: 1997-01-01

This poignant portrait is highlighted by talks with those who knew and worked with Mother Teresa...

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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess

as Self - Host
Released: 1994-10-17

An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and...

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300 Miles for Stephanie

as Capt. McIntyre
Released: 1981-01-12

A San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his...

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Doris Day: It's Magic

as Narrator
Released: 1998-10-18

When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in...

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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 1995-01-01

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of...

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Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

as Self - Host
Released: 1999-03-26

A&E Biography about life and times of the beautiful actress of the '40s and feature...

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Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

as Narrator
Released: 1999-08-24

Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite...

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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

as Self - Host
Released: 1995-09-03

A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the...

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America on the Move 1876-2000

as Host
Released: 2003-11-29

Two complete documentaries exploring more than a century of invention innovation transportation...

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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

as Self / Narrator
Released: 1998-05-10

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin...

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The Mysterious Monsters

as Himself - Narrator
Released: 1976-07-01

One of the many notorious 70's "unknown" documentaries, The Mysterious Monsters covers topics...

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Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Featuring Audra McDonald and Peter Graves

as Self
Released: 2005-09-15

Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and veteran movie and television star Peter Graves...

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Abbott & Costello Meet Biography

as Host
Released: 1996-04-29

A biography of comedian duo Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

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Wolf Larsen

as Van Weyden
Released: 1958-10-26

A mean-spirited ship captain keeps his crew under his autocratic thumb while indulging his more...

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William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama

as uncredited
Released: 1996-08-16

William Shakespeare's life produced an unmatched legacy of drama and poetry. But the Bard's own...

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Fury

as Jim Newton
Released: 1950-11-10

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American Dad!

as Mr. Pibb (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-06

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...

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Mission: Impossible

as Jim Phelps
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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The Love Boat

as Gerald Whitney
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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The Love Boat

as Carl Lawrence
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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The Love Boat

as Leonard Culver
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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House

as Myron
First aired: 2004-11-16

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...

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The Dean Martin Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-16

The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Mark Needham
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Studio One

as Glenn Willis
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-05-25

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Edmund Gerard
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Daniel Boone

as Logan Harris
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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The Golden Girls

as Jerry Kennedy
First aired: 1985-09-14

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake....

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The F.B.I.

as Manning Fryes
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Diagnosis: Murder

as Peter Graves
First aired: 1993-10-29

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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7th Heaven

as John "Colonel" Camden
First aired: 1996-08-26

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven...

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The Angry Beavers

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-04-19

The Angry Beavers is an American animated television series created by Mitch Schauer for the...

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Run for Your Life

as Jim Carlson
First aired: 1965-09-13

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only...

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The Invaders

as Gavin Lewis
First aired: 1967-01-10

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to...

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Maj. Frank Whitaker
First aired: 1963-10-10

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self
First aired: 1973-09-14

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean...

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12 O'Clock High

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-18

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th...

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Mickey Mouse Works

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-05-01

Mickey Mouse Works is an American television show that features the cartoon character Mickey...

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Climax!

as Stanley
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Climax!

as Steve Baxter
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Cold Case

as Anton Bikker (2006)
First aired: 2003-09-28

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

as Major Noah Cooper
First aired: 1979-09-20

20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him...

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Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

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Burke's Law

as General Prescott
First aired: 1994-01-07

Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from...

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Cavalcade of America

as Maj. Tom Howie
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Simon & Simon

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-24

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...

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Lux Video Theatre

as Joel Barker
First aired: 1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...

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The Virginian

as Robert Gaynor
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Great Adventure

as Daniel Boone
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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Laredo

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-16

Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to...

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The Sonny & Cher Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-02-01

Cher and Sonny Bono starred in this quintessentially '70's TV comedy/variety show. Sonny and...

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Where's Raymond?

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-10-08

Where's Raymond? is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Ray Bolger. The series aired...

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Branded

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-01-24

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...

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The Millionaire

as Paul Hartley
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Screen Actors Guild Awards

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-02-25

One of awards season's premier events, the SAG Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion...

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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-05

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Biff Baker U.S.A.

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-11-06

Biff Baker, U.S.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from November...

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War and Remembrance

as Palmer Kirby
First aired: 1988-11-13

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman...

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Life with Lucy

as Ben Marshall
First aired: 1986-09-20

Life With Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The show ran on the ABC network in...

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The Winds of War

as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby
First aired: 1983-02-06

Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dr. James Ewing
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Fury

as Jim Newton
First aired: 1955-10-15

Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter...

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Mission: Impossible

as Jim Phelps
First aired: 1988-10-23

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Rocky Kent
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Cimarron City

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-27

Cimarron City is an American Western television series, starring George Montgomery as Matt...

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Minoriteam

as Sheldon Miller
First aired: 2005-11-06

Minoriteam is an animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block,...

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Whiplash

as Christopher Cobb
First aired: 1961-02-18

Whiplash is a British/Australian television series made by the Seven Network and ATV and ITC...

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