Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 29, 1920
Died
Aug 01, 1983
Place of Birth
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Credits
72 titles
Peter Arne
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Far Pavilions
The General
Curse of the Pink Panther
General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria
Labisse
Tangiers
Malen
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
Nobody Ordered Love
Leo Richardstone
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
This Way for Murder
Worth
The Sandwich Man
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum
Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Spies
Copic
The Mask of Janus
Copic
Out of the Unknown
Gavin
The Black Torment
Seymour
Girl in the Headlines
Hammond Barker
The Sentimental Agent
Strink
Crane
Michael Harrington
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 Secret of Monte Cristo
Boldini
Drama 61-67
Lieutenant
The Hellfire Club
Thomas - Earl of Netherden
The Avengers