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person_profile-Peter Arne

Peter Arne Died at age: 62

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Peter Arne

Date of Birth:

Sep 29, 1920

Country of birth:

Malaysia

Died:

Aug 01, 1983

Biography of

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.

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Peter Arne

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Filmography of

Peter Arne

Found 40 Movies in total

Curse of the Pink Panther

General Bufoni ( Actor )

... 1983

Trail of the Pink Panther

Col. Bufoni ( Actor )

... 1982

Victor/Victoria

Labisse ( Actor )

... 1982

The Passage

Guide ( Actor )

... 1979

Agatha

Hotel Manager ( Actor )

... 1979

Providence

Nils ( Actor )

... 1977

The Return of the Pink Panther

Colonel Sharki ( Actor )

... 1975

Pope Joan

Richard ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

Straw Dogs

John Niles ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1971

When Eight Bells Toll

Capt. Imrie ( Actor )

... 1971

The Oblong Box

Samuel Trench ( Actor )

... 1969

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Captain of Guard ( Actor )

... 1968

Battle Beneath the Earth

Arnold Kramer ( Actor )

... 1967

Poor Cherry

Philip Rick ( Actor )

... 1967

The Sandwich Man

Gentleman in Rolls Royce ( Actor )

... 1966

Khartoum

Major Kitchener ( Actor )

... 1966

The Black Torment

Seymour ( Actor )

... 1964

Girl in the Headlines

Hammond Barker ( Actor )

... 1963

The Pirates of Blood River

Bosu'n Hench ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1961

The Hellfire Club

Thomas ( Actor )

... 1961

A Story of David

Doeg ( Actor )

... 1960

Sands of the Desert

Sheikh El Jabez ( Actor )

... 1960

Conspiracy of Hearts

Lt. Schmidt ( Actor )

... 1960

Scent of Mystery

Robert Fleming ( Actor )

... 1960

Danger Within

Capitano Benucci ( Actor )

... 1959

The Moonraker

Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler ( Actor )

... 1958

Intent to Kill

Kral ( Actor )

... 1958

Ice Cold in Alex

British Officer at Oasis ( Actor )

... 1958

Strangers' Meeting

Harry Belair ( Actor )

... 1957

High Tide at Noon

Owen MacKenzie ( Actor )

... 1957

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Dick Penrod ( Actor )

... 1957

The Cockleshell Heroes

Marine Stevens ( Actor )

... 1955

Timeslip

Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis ( Actor )

... 1955

The Dam Busters

Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Assailant ( Actor )

... 1948

For Those in Peril

Junior Officer ( Actor )

... 1944