Peter Arne
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
No Hiding Place
The Avengers
The Avengers
Cosmo Gallion
Hart to Hart
The Champions
Margoli
The Saint
Pablo Enriquez
The Main Chance
Ernest Leggatt
The Expert
Dr. Hamad
Secret Army
Colonel von Schalk
Man in a Suitcase
Department S
Slovic
Department S
Segres
Danger Man
Major Hassler
The Protectors
Mario Giocvetti
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Davidoff
Trail of the Pink Panther
Col. Bufoni
Curse of the Pink Panther
General Bufoni
Straw Dogs
John Niles
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Captain of Guard
Agatha
Hotel Manager
Danger Within
Capitano Benucci
The Sentimental Agent
The Passage
Guide
Khartoum
Major Kitchener
The Sandwich Man
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Pope Joan
Richard
Antony and Cleopatra
Menas
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Providence
Nils
The Far Pavilions
The General
Drama 61-67
Lieutenant
The Spies
When Eight Bells Toll
Capt. Imrie
The Pirates of Blood River
Bosu'n Hench
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Aubert
The Oblong Box
Samuel Trench
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Assailant
The Return of the Pink Panther
Colonel Sharki
The Cockleshell Heroes
Marine Stevens
The Moonraker
Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Girl in the Headlines
Hammond Barker
The Venturers
Battle Beneath the Earth
Arnold Kramer
Victor/Victoria
Labisse
The Dam Busters
Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
A Story of David
Doeg
Conspiracy of Hearts
Lt. Schmidt
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
Boldini
The Hellfire Club
Thomas
The Black Torment
Seymour
High Tide at Noon
Owen MacKenzie
Strangers' Meeting
Harry Belair
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Dick Penrod
Intent to Kill
Kral
For Those in Peril
Junior Officer
Nobody Ordered Love
Leo Richardstone
Poor Cherry
Philip Rick
Scent of Mystery
Robert Fleming
Timeslip
Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
Ice Cold in Alex
British Officer at Oasis
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Art Gallery Manager
Sands of the Desert
Sheikh El Jabez
Mystery on Bird Island
Henri