WHEN the creators of “Airplane!”
were lining up actors for their rollicking parody three decades ago,
some of the straight-arrow character actors that ended up in the cast
worried about the harm it might do to their careers. One of the most
skittish participants: Peter Graves, the taciturn “Mission:
Impossible” star who played the movie’s pilot, a kindly veteran who
welcomes a little boy named Billy into the cockpit and asks questions
like “Ever seen a grown man naked?” Read More>>>>>>>
