Peter Arne
Actor
Born September 29, 1920 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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.
Filmography
The Far Pavilions
The General
Curse of the Pink Panther
General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria
Labisse
To Serve Them All My Days
Dr Farrington
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Art Gallery Manager
Hart to Hart
The Passage
Guide
Agatha
Hotel Manager
Secret Army
Colonel von Schalk
Providence
Nils
The Return of the Pink Panther
Colonel Sharki
Playhouse
Art Gallery Manager
The Protectors
Mario Giocvetti
Pope Joan
Richard
Antony and Cleopatra
Menas
Straw Dogs
John Niles
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Davidoff
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Aubert
The Shattered Eye
Gavin
When Eight Bells Toll
Capt. Imrie
Department S
Slovic
The Main Chance
Ernest Leggatt
The Oblong Box
Samuel Trench
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Captain of Guard
The Champions
Margoli
The Expert
Dr. Hamad
Battle Beneath the Earth
Arnold Kramer
Man in a Suitcase
Poor Cherry
Philip Rick
The Sandwich Man
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum
Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
Out of the Unknown
Gavin
The Black Torment
Seymour
Girl in the Headlines
Hammond Barker
The Sentimental Agent
Strink
The Saint
Pablo Enriquez
Man of the World
Chang
The Pirates of Blood River
Bosu'n Hench
Night Conspirators
The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
Boldini
The Hellfire Club
Thomas - Earl of Netherden
The Avengers
A Story of David
Doeg
Danger Man
Major Hassler
Sands of the Desert
Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts
Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery
Robert Fleming
No Hiding Place
Danger Within
Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker
Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill
Kral
Ice Cold in Alex
British Officer at Oasis
Strangers' Meeting
Harry Belair
High Tide at Noon
Owen MacKenzie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Dick Penrod
Armchair Theatre
The Old Visitor
The Cockleshell Heroes
Marine Stevens
Timeslip
Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
The Dam Busters
Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Mystery on Bird Island
Henri
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Assailant
For Those in Peril
Junior Officer