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 )