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Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, [3] [4] the younger son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness (1894–1982), a businessman, and his wife, Ruth (née Duesler, died 1986), a journalist.
Aurness is the son of Gunsmoke actor James Arness (who died on June 3, 2011 [4]) and nephew of Mission Impossible actor Peter Graves. [1] [2]In the decade following his World Surfing Championship win Aurness fell out of surfing due to the deaths of his wife, mother, and sister.
The family name had been Aursnes, but when Rolf's father, Peter Aursnes, emigrated from Norway in 1887, he changed it to Aurness. [3] James Arness and his family were Methodists. [4] Arness' younger brother was actor Peter Graves. Peter used the stage name "Graves", a maternal family name. [3]
He also said in an interview that he grew up watching the original Mission: Impossible, with series' lead Peter Graves, whom Morris came to consider his acting mentor. Through his childhood, Morris knew Graves' real-life children. [7] The friendship continued, until Peter Graves' death on March 14, 2010, which devastated Morris.
On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, Steven Anders and his two teenage children, Deborah and David, are exploring a cave when they experience an earthquake. After emerging, they hear from a ranch-hand who was outside that there was a bright solar flash prior to the earthquake.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Peter Oppenheimer had three children. Two of them live public lives and comment on their grandfather's legacy. Dr. Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford, is a technical writer based in southern Nevada, ...
Charles Laughton directing Billy Chapin, watched by Peter Graves in The Night of the Hunter, 1955. Though now considered a classic, The Night of the Hunter was a critical and commercial failure when released, "because of its lack of the proper trappings." [7] The film was an inductee in the 1992 National Film Registry list. [8]