Actor Peter Graves dead at 83

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Peter Graves, the rugged actor who starred in the hit TV series ‘Mission: Impossible’ and such movies as ‘Stalag 17’ and ‘Airplane’ has died. He was 83.

Graves was found dead Sunday afternoon in his Pacific Palisades home from apparent natural causes, said Officer Karen Rayner of the Los Angeles Police Department.

We’ll have an obit later at latimes.com/obituaries.

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