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.
71 acting credits
Acting · 71
The Avengers
1961
The Saint
1962
Hart to Hart
1979
Playhouse
1974
The Champions
1968
No Hiding Place
1959
Danger Man
1960
Secret Army
1977
The Protectors
1972
The Expert
1968
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Out of the Unknown
1965
Drama 61-67
1961
Department S
1969
The Main Chance
1969
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Man of the World
1962
Crane
1963
The Far Pavilions
1984
Straw Dogs
1971
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Sentimental Agent
1963
The Mask of Janus
1965
Khartoum
1966
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
To Serve Them All My Days
1980
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
Victor/Victoria
1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
The Dam Busters
1955
The Spies
1966
The Passage
1979
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
Ice Cold in Alex
1958
Agatha
1979
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
Providence
1977
Pope Joan
1972
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
The Oblong Box
1969
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
Danger Within
1959
The Sandwich Man
1966
Tangiers
1982
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
The Moonraker
1958
Intent to Kill
1958
Scent of Mystery
1960
The Hellfire Club
1961
For Those in Peril
1944
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1961
Girl in the Headlines
1963
Poor Cherry
1967
Nobody Ordered Love
1972
A Story of David
1960
The Black Torment
1964
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
Timeslip
1955
High Tide at Noon
1957
Sands of the Desert
1960
Night Conspirators
1962
Mystery on Bird Island
1954
Strangers' Meeting
1957
The Shattered Eye
1971
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980