Background
Born in London, Graves was the son of Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves.
Born in London, Graves was the son of Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves.
He was educated at Harrow.
Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, was his great-great-great-grandfather. Known during his acting career as Peter Graves, he specialised in light comedies and musicals, often cast as dapper young men about town. His career peaked in the mid to late 1940s, beginning with the films of director/writer Val Guest, including Mission London Limited (1943) and, opposite Arthur Askey.
And Give Us the Moon (1944) and, opposite Margaret Lockwood.
Other roles included the lead in, and George IV in both and Mistress Fitzherbert (1947). He also appeared in a number of films by Herbert Wilcox, such as popular musicals Spring in Park Lane (1948) and Maytime in Mayfair (1949), both vehicles for Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding.
He also portrayed another royal, Prince Albert in Wilcox"s and Lilacs in the Spring (1954). He re-emerged in the 1960s as a popular comic supporting player in number of films, including.
;;; and He continued acting until a few years before his death, mostly on television
In 1963 he succeeded his father as eighth Baron Graves. However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. She died in 1992. The union had been childless and he died without an heir on 6 June 1994 in France of a heart attack.