Peter Graves (Peter Arness) Death from a Heart Attack

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Peter Aurness, known professionally as Peter Graves, star of TV’s ‘Mission Impossible’. The popular actor died yesterday outside his home, apparently suffering from a heart attack, just before his 84th birthday. Graves was with his wife of 60 years at the time, according to Sandy Brokaw, his publicist.

Peter Graves was perhaps best known as renowned character Jim Phelps in ‘Mission Impossible’, after first becoming known in the 1950’s series ‘Fury’. He appeared in many films and TV roles over the years and was critically acclaimed for his astounding performance as a Nazi spy in Billy Wilder’s film ‘Stalag 17’.

His older brother was James Arness, who shot to fame as Marshall Matt Dillon in TV’s ‘Gunsmoke’. Graves changed his name to that of his grandfather’s to avoid confusion with his older sibling. He later said of the Airplane films that he had been worried about taking the role sending up his previously serious image commenting, “I thought I could lose a whole long acting career”.

Some heart disease facts by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Half of the deaths due to heart disease in 2006 were in women.
In 2006, a total of 631,636 people in the United States died of heart disease. Of the deaths that year, 26%—or more than one in every four—were caused by heart disease.
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 34 seconds. Each minute, someone in the United States dies from a heart disease-related event.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most racial/ethnic groups in the United States, including African Americans, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Hispanics, and whites. For Asian Americans, heart disease is second only to cancer.
In 2010, heart disease will cost the United States $316.4 billion. This total includes the cost of health care services, medications, and lost productivity.

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