In one of The Final Reckoning’s most unexpected callbacks, it’s revealed that Shea Whigham’s character Briggs is actually the son of Jim Phelps, Jon Voight’s character from the original ...

However, Phelps was the lead character of the original Mission: Impossible series, meaning the decision for the 1996 movie risked tarnishing his legacy for those who spent years watching him as an ...

In the 1996 film Mission: Impossible, the esteemed IMF team leader Jim Phelps spearheads a mission in Prague to prevent an American diplomat from stealing the CIA’s non-official cover (NOC) list ...

The bizarreness of the reveal is it’s a character we’ve seen before, albeit not as Jim Phelps. We first met our new Jim in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning as intelligence agent Jasper ...

While Ethan Hunt and most of the other characters in 1996’s Mission: Impossible were newly created figures, the initial leader of Hunt’s Impossible Mission Force agents, Jim Phelps, was most ...

As played by Peter Graves, Jim Phelps was the hero of the IMF in the original Mission: Impossible series, which ran from 1966 to 1973.Graves took on the role in Season 2 in 1967 and remained the ...

Anticipation for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning includes a possible return of Jim Phelps, whose original betrayal shocked fans.(Paramount Pictures) ...

Peter Graves and James Arness were best known for their iconic television roles of Jim Phelps and Matt Dillon on Mission Impossible and Gunsmoke, respectively.But likely more important to the two ...