Peter Arne
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 29, 1920
- Died
- Aug 1, 1983 (aged 62)
- Place of birth
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Credits
- 72
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
Straw Dogs
1971Movie
John Niles
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968Movie
Captain of Guard
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975Movie
Colonel Sharki
Victor/Victoria
1982Movie
Labisse
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982Movie
Col. Bufoni
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983Movie
General Bufoni
Filmography
The Far Pavilions
1984TV
The General
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983Movie
General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982Movie
Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria
1982Movie
Labisse
Tangiers
1982Movie
Malen
To Serve Them All My Days
1980TV
Dr Farrington
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980Movie
Art Gallery Manager
Hart to Hart
1979TV
The Passage
1979Movie
Guide
Agatha
1979Movie
Hotel Manager
Secret Army
1977TV
Colonel von Schalk
Providence
1977Movie
Nils
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975Movie
Colonel Sharki
Playhouse
1974TV
Art Gallery Manager
The Protectors
1972TV
Mario Giocvetti
Pope Joan
1972Movie
Richard
Nobody Ordered Love
1972Movie
Leo Richardstone
Antony and Cleopatra
1972Movie
Menas
Straw Dogs
1971Movie
John Niles
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971TV
Colonel Davidoff
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971Movie
Aubert
The Shattered Eye
1971Movie
Gavin
When Eight Bells Toll
1971Movie
Capt. Imrie
Department S
1969TV
Slovic, Segres
The Main Chance
1969TV
Ernest Leggatt
The Oblong Box
1969Movie
Samuel Trench
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968Movie
Captain of Guard
The Champions
1968TV
Margoli
The Expert
1968TV
Dr. Hamad
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967Movie
Arnold Kramer
Man in a Suitcase
1967TV
Poor Cherry
1967Movie
Philip Rick
This Way for Murder
1967TV
Worth
The Sandwich Man
1966Movie
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum
1966Movie
Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Spies
1966TV
Copic
The Mask of Janus
1965TV
Copic
Out of the Unknown
1965TV
Gavin
The Black Torment
1964Movie
Seymour
Girl in the Headlines
1963Movie
Hammond Barker
The Sentimental Agent
1963TV
Strink
Crane
1963TV
Michael Harrington
The Saint
1962TV
Pablo Enriquez
Man of the World
1962TV
Chang
The Pirates of Blood River
1962Movie
Bosu'n Hench
Night Conspirators
1962Movie
The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
The Secret of Monte Cristo
1961Movie
Boldini
Drama 61-67
1961TV
Lieutenant
The Hellfire Club
1961Movie
Thomas - Earl of Netherden
The Avengers
1961TV
Cosmo Gallion
A Story of David
1960Movie
Doeg
Danger Man
1960TV
Major Hassler
Sands of the Desert
1960Movie
Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960Movie
Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery
1960Movie
Robert Fleming
No Hiding Place
1959TV
Danger Within
1959Movie
Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker
1958Movie
Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill
1958Movie
Kral
Ice Cold in Alex
1958Movie
British Officer at Oasis
Strangers' Meeting
1957Movie
Harry Belair
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957TV
Father Maggiore
High Tide at Noon
1957Movie
Owen MacKenzie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957Movie
Dick Penrod
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
The Old Visitor
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955Movie
Marine Stevens
Timeslip
1955Movie
Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
The Dam Busters
1955Movie
Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Mystery on Bird Island
1954Movie
Henri
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954Movie
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948Movie
Assailant
For Those in Peril
1944Movie
Junior Officer