Peter Arne
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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
Credits
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
as Captain of Guard
Victor/Victoria (1982)
as Labisse
Straw Dogs (1971)
as John Niles
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
as Colonel Sharki
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
as General Bufoni
The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961)
as Boldini
Khartoum (1966)
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
as Col. Bufoni
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
as Menas
Night Conspirators (1962)
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
The Dam Busters (1955)
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
as Assailant
Providence (1977)
as Nils
The Passage (1979)
as Guide
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
as Marine Stevens
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
as Capt. Imrie
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
as Aubert
Danger Within (1959)
as Capitano Benucci
The Oblong Box (1969)
as Samuel Trench
The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
Actor
Girl in the Headlines (1963)
as Hammond Barker
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
as British Officer at Oasis
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
as Dick Penrod
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
as Bosu'n Hench
The Hellfire Club (1961)
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
The Sandwich Man (1966)
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
For Those in Peril (1944)
as Junior Officer
Nobody Ordered Love (1972)
as Leo Richardstone
Agatha (1979)
as Hotel Manager
Tangiers (1982)
as Malen
The Shattered Eye (1971)
as Gavin
The Black Torment (1964)
as Seymour
Timeslip (1955)
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
as Arnold Kramer
Mystery on Bird Island (1954)
as Henri
The Moonraker (1958)
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill (1958)
as Kral
Pope Joan (1972)
as Richard
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
as Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery (1960)
as Robert Fleming
Sands of the Desert (1960)
as Sheikh El Jabez
A Story of David (1960)
as Doeg
Hallelujah, Mary Plum (1980)
as Art Gallery Manager
High Tide at Noon (1957)
as Owen MacKenzie
Strangers' Meeting (1957)
as Harry Belair
Poor Cherry (1967)
as Philip Rick