Peter Arne
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 29, 1920
- Died
- August 1, 1983
- Birthplace
- 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
Curse of the Pink Panther 1983
as General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther 1982
as Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria 1982
as Labisse
- Tangiers
Tangiers 1982
as Malen
Hallelujah, Mary Plum 1980
as Art Gallery Manager
The Passage 1979
as Guide
Agatha 1979
as Hotel Manager
Providence 1977
as Nils
The Return of the Pink Panther 1975
as Colonel Sharki
Pope Joan 1972
as Richard
- Nobody Ordered Love
Nobody Ordered Love 1972
as Leo Richardstone
Antony and Cleopatra 1972
as Menas
Straw Dogs 1971
as John Niles
Murders in the Rue Morgue 1971
as Aubert
The Shattered Eye 1971
as Gavin
When Eight Bells Toll 1971
as Capt. Imrie
The Oblong Box 1969
as Samuel Trench
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968
as Captain of Guard
Battle Beneath the Earth 1967
as Arnold Kramer
Poor Cherry 1967
as Philip Rick
The Sandwich Man 1966
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum 1966
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Black Torment 1964
as Seymour
Girl in the Headlines 1963
as Hammond Barker
The Pirates of Blood River 1962
as Bosu'n Hench
Night Conspirators 1962
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
The Secret of Monte Cristo 1961
as Boldini
The Hellfire Club 1961
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
A Story of David 1960
as Doeg
Sands of the Desert 1960
as Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts 1960
as Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery 1960
as Robert Fleming
Danger Within 1959
as Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker 1958
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill 1958
as Kral
Ice Cold in Alex 1958
as British Officer at Oasis
Strangers' Meeting 1957
as Harry Belair
High Tide at Noon 1957
as Owen MacKenzie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari 1957
as Dick Penrod
The Cockleshell Heroes 1955
as Marine Stevens
Timeslip 1955
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
The Dam Busters 1955
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Mystery on Bird Island 1954
as Henri
The Men of Sherwood Forest 1954
Actor
Saraband for Dead Lovers 1948
as Assailant
For Those in Peril 1944
as Junior Officer
Credits from TMDB.