{"id":4224,"date":"2025-03-18T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:17:15","slug":"happy-birthday-peter-graves-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/03\/happy-birthday-peter-graves-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Peter Graves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">March 18, 1926 \u2013 March 14, 2010<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Peter Duesler Arness in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mr. Graves prolific and diverse career included starring roles in a pair of CDF classics \u2013 Dr. Paul Nelson in IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956) and scientist Chris Cronyn in RED PLANET MARS (1952), James Phelps in <em>Mission Impossible<\/em> (1967-1973), Jim Newton in <em>Fury<\/em> (1955-1960), as well as appearances on the popular television series <em>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century<\/em> (1979), <em>The Love Boat<\/em> (1978-1987), and <em>Fantasy Island<\/em> (1978-1983) \u2014 but some may remember him best as Captain Clarence Oveur in the 1980 comedy classic \u2013 <em>Airplane<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1339\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Graves photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, 1926 \u2013 March 14, 2010 Born Peter Duesler Arness in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mr. Graves prolific and diverse career included starring roles in a pair of CDF classics \u2013 Dr. Paul Nelson in IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956) and scientist Chris Cronyn in RED PLANET MARS (1952), James Phelps in Mission Impossible (1967-1973), Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,32,174,16,430],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-itconqueredtheworld","tag-movies","tag-petergraves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Peter-Graves_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}