There’s really not much to say here – another long-time Wtf-Film favorite and Minneapolis, MN native has passed away.  Actor Peter Graves (younger brother of James Arness), famous for his turn as the pilot in Airplane!, has ascended to that all-day peplum matinee in the sky at the age of 83.  He was found dead of natural causes in his home Sunday afternoon.

Best known around these parts as a regular in the down-and-dirty no-budget world of 50s science fiction, Graves starred in such classic cheapie programmers as Killers From Space, It Conquered The World, Beginning of the End, and Red Planet Mars. Needless to say, he will be missed.