Peter Graves

摘要

Jim Phelps has Acceptedrnhis 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 his flinty features, suitable for carving on Mount Rushmore,rnand his sonorous baritone made him one of the small screen's leading authority figures-an eminence he occasionally subverted in irreverent comedies like Airplane! and Men in Black II.