Peter Arne
Born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, Peter Arne was an actor and an antique dealer who was murdered in 1983. In the late 1940s, Arne and his partner Jack Corke befriended acclaimed novelist Mary Renault and her partner, Julie Mullard, on the SS Cairo, a steamer bound from Britain to South Africa and convinced them to go into business building homes for immigrants to the country. Renault financed using her £25,000 MGM award, employing labourers and craftsmen to begin construction of several houses, but Arne and Corke squandered the money, racking up debts before stealing Renault's car and returning to the UK to avoid charges of embezzlement. On 1st August 1983, Arne attended a costume fitting for a role in Doctor Who. On his return home, neighbours reported sounds of an argument to the police who subsequently found Arne's body inside his Knightsbridge flat. He had been bludgeoned to death with a stool and log from his fireplace. The prime suspect in Arne's murder was Giuseppe Perusi, a schoolteacher from Italy who had been living rough in a local park, and for whom Arne had been providing food. Four days later, a body matching Perusi's description was found in the River Thames at Wandsworth, having drowned in an apparent suicide. At the subsequent inquest in October 1983, Police concluded that Perusi had beaten the actor to death then killed himself.
Acted in
The Far Pavilions
1984
as The General
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria
1982
as Labisse
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980
as Art Gallery Manager
Hart to Hart
1979
The Passage
1979
as Guide
Agatha
1979
as Hotel Manager
Secret Army
1977
as Colonel von Schalk
Providence
1977
as Nils
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Colonel Sharki
The Venturers
1975
The Protectors
1972
as Mario Giocvetti
Pope Joan
1972
as Richard
Nobody Ordered Love
1972
as Leo Richardstone
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Menas
Straw Dogs
1971
as John Niles
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Colonel Davidoff
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Aubert
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Capt. Imrie
Department S
1969
as Slovic
Department S
1969
as Segres
The Main Chance
1969
as Ernest Leggatt
The Oblong Box
1969
as Samuel Trench
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
as Captain of Guard
The Champions
1968
as Margoli
The Expert
1968
as Dr. Hamad
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
as Arnold Kramer
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Poor Cherry
1967
as Philip Rick
The Sandwich Man
1966
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum
1966
as Major Kitchener
The Spies
1966
The Black Torment
1964
as Seymour
Girl in the Headlines
1963
as Hammond Barker
The Sentimental Agent
1963
The Saint
1962
as Pablo Enriquez
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
as Bosu'n Hench
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1961
as Boldini
Drama 61-67
1961
as Lieutenant
The Hellfire Club
1961
as Thomas
The Avengers
1961
A Story of David
1960
as Doeg
Danger Man
1960
as Major Hassler
Sands of the Desert
1960
as Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
as Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery
1960
as Robert Fleming
No Hiding Place
1959
Danger Within
1959
as Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker
1958
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill
1958
as Kral
Ice Cold in Alex
1958
as British Officer at Oasis
Strangers' Meeting
1957
as Harry Belair
High Tide at Noon
1957
as Owen MacKenzie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
as Dick Penrod
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Marine Stevens
Timeslip
1955
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
The Dam Busters
1955
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Mystery on Bird Island
1954
as Henri
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
For Those in Peril
1944
as Junior Officer