Peter Arne
Acting • Born 1920-09-29 – Died 1983-08-01
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.
Filmography
72 credits
Straw Dogs
Movie • 1971
John Niles
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Movie • 1954
The Return of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1975
Colonel Sharki
Victor/Victoria
Movie • 1982
Labisse
Khartoum
Movie • 1966
Major Kitchener
Battle Beneath the Earth
Movie • 1967
Arnold Kramer
The Cockleshell Heroes
Movie • 1955
Marine Stevens
Poor Cherry
Movie • 1967
Philip Rick
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Movie • 1957
Dick Penrod
The Oblong Box
Movie • 1969
Samuel Trench
Girl in the Headlines
Movie • 1963
Hammond Barker
Intent to Kill
Movie • 1958
Kral
Strangers' Meeting
Movie • 1957
Harry Belair
The Hellfire Club
Movie • 1961
Thomas
The Black Torment
Movie • 1964
Seymour
Timeslip
Movie • 1955
Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
For Those in Peril
Movie • 1944
Junior Officer
Scent of Mystery
Movie • 1960
Robert Fleming
A Story of David
Movie • 1960
Doeg
High Tide at Noon
Movie • 1957
Owen MacKenzie
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1961
Boldini
Sands of the Desert
Movie • 1960
Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts
Movie • 1960
Lt. Schmidt
Danger Within
Movie • 1959
Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker
Movie • 1958
Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
The Dam Busters
Movie • 1955
Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Movie • 1968
Captain of Guard
Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1983
General Bufoni
The Sandwich Man
Movie • 1966
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Antony and Cleopatra
Movie • 1972
Menas
Ice Cold in Alex
Movie • 1958
British Officer at Oasis
Nobody Ordered Love
Movie • 1972
Leo Richardstone
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie • 1971
Aubert
Agatha
Movie • 1979
Hotel Manager
When Eight Bells Toll
Movie • 1971
Capt. Imrie
The Pirates of Blood River
Movie • 1962
Bosu'n Hench
Providence
Movie • 1977
Nils
The Passage
Movie • 1979
Guide
Pope Joan
Movie • 1972
Richard
Trail of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1982
Col. Bufoni
Mystery on Bird Island
Movie • 1954
Henri
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Movie • 1980
Art Gallery Manager
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Movie • 1948
Assailant
Night Conspirators
Movie • 1962
The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
Tangiers
Movie • 1982
Malen
The Shattered Eye
Movie • 1971
Gavin
Department S
TV • 1969
Slovic
The Avengers
TV • 1961
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Mario Giocvetti
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
The Saint
TV • 1962
Pablo Enriquez
The Champions
TV • 1968
Margoli
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Expert
TV • 1968
Dr. Hamad
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Lieutenant
The Main Chance
TV • 1969
Ernest Leggatt
Secret Army
TV • 1977
Colonel von Schalk
Department S
TV • 1969
Segres
Danger Man
TV • 1960
Major Hassler
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Colonel Davidoff
The Far Pavilions
TV • 1984
The General
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Cosmo Gallion
The Spies
TV • 1966
Copic
The Mask of Janus
TV • 1965
Copic
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Art Gallery Manager
Crane
TV • 1963
Michael Harrington
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
TV • 1957
Father Maggiore
Man of the World
TV • 1962
Chang
The Sentimental Agent
TV • 1963
Strink
To Serve Them All My Days
TV • 1980
Dr Farrington
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Gavin