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FILE - In this May 22, 1996 file photo, actor Peter Graves says he wasn't asked to portray his signature role in the film remake of ``Mission Impossible,'' the big-budget movie starring Tom Cruise. Graves said in the New York Daily News, Sunday, May 26, 1996, he wouldn't like to play Phelps as the bad guy.  Graves' publicist, Sandy Brokaw, says the actor died Sunday shortly after returning to his Los Angeles home from brunch with his family. He was 83.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file )

'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA (AP)

AP - Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series "Mission: Impossible," died Sunday.

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