Peter Arne
Acting
1920-09-29 · 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
The Far Pavilions
1984 · Series
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983 · Movie
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982 · Movie
Victor/Victoria
1982 · Movie
Tangiers
1982 · Movie
To Serve Them All My Days
1980 · Series
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980 · Movie
Hart to Hart
1979 · Series
The Passage
1979 · Movie
Agatha
1979 · Movie
Secret Army
1977 · Series
Providence
1977 · Movie
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
The Protectors
1972 · Series
Pope Joan
1972 · Movie
Nobody Ordered Love
1972 · Movie
Antony and Cleopatra
1972 · Movie
Straw Dogs
1971 · Movie
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Series
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Movie
The Shattered Eye
1971 · Movie
When Eight Bells Toll
1971 · Movie
Department S
1969 · Series
The Main Chance
1969 · Series
The Oblong Box
1969 · Movie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968 · Movie
The Champions
1968 · Series
The Expert
1968 · Series
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967 · Movie
Man in a Suitcase
1967 · Series
Poor Cherry
1967 · Movie
This Way for Murder
1967 · Series
The Sandwich Man
1966 · Movie
Khartoum
1966 · Movie
The Spies
1966 · Series
The Mask of Janus
1965 · Series
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Series
The Black Torment
1964 · Movie
Girl in the Headlines
1963 · Movie
The Sentimental Agent
1963 · Series
Crane
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
Man of the World
1962 · Series
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Movie
Night Conspirators
1962 · Movie
The Secret of Monte Cristo
1961 · Movie
Drama 61-67
1961 · Series
The Hellfire Club
1961 · Movie
The Avengers
1961 · Series
A Story of David
1960 · Movie
Danger Man
1960 · Series
Sands of the Desert
1960 · Movie
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960 · Movie
Scent of Mystery
1960 · Movie
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
Danger Within
1959 · Movie
The Moonraker
1958 · Movie
Intent to Kill
1958 · Movie
Ice Cold in Alex
1958 · Movie
Strangers' Meeting
1957 · Movie
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957 · Series
High Tide at Noon
1957 · Movie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Movie
Timeslip
1955 · Movie
The Dam Busters
1955 · Movie
Mystery on Bird Island
1954 · Movie
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954 · Movie
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948 · Movie
For Those in Peril
1944 · Movie