Acting · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Born September 29, 1920
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.
TVThe Far Pavilions
1984
as The General
MovieCurse of the Pink Panther
1983
as General Bufoni
MovieTrail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Col. Bufoni
MovieVictor/Victoria
1982
as Labisse
Tangiers
1982
as Malen
TVTo Serve Them All My Days
1980
as Dr Farrington
MovieHallelujah, Mary Plum
1980
as Art Gallery Manager
TVHart to Hart
1979
MovieThe Passage
1979
as Guide
MovieAgatha
1979
as Hotel Manager
TVSecret Army
1977
as Colonel von Schalk
MovieProvidence
1977
as Nils
MovieThe Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Colonel Sharki
TVPlayhouse
1974
as Art Gallery Manager
TVThe Protectors
1972
as Mario Giocvetti
MoviePope Joan
1972
as Richard
Nobody Ordered Love
1972
as Leo Richardstone
MovieAntony and Cleopatra
1972
as Menas
MovieStraw Dogs
1971
as John Niles
TVThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Colonel Davidoff
MovieMurders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Aubert
MovieThe Shattered Eye
1971
as Gavin
MovieWhen Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Capt. Imrie
TVDepartment S
1969
as Slovic
TVThe Main Chance
1969
as Ernest Leggatt
MovieThe Oblong Box
1969
as Samuel Trench
MovieChitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
as Captain of Guard
TVThe Champions
1968
as Margoli
TVThe Expert
1968
as Dr. Hamad
MovieBattle Beneath the Earth
1967
as Arnold Kramer
TVMan in a Suitcase
1967
MoviePoor Cherry
1967
as Philip Rick
This Way for Murder
1967
as Worth
MovieThe Sandwich Man
1966
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
MovieKhartoum
1966
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Spies
1966
as Copic
The Mask of Janus
1965
as Copic
TVOut of the Unknown
1965
as Gavin
MovieThe Black Torment
1964
as Seymour
MovieGirl in the Headlines
1963
as Hammond Barker
TVThe Sentimental Agent
1963
as Strink
Crane
1963
as Michael Harrington
TVThe Saint
1962
as Pablo Enriquez
TVMan of the World
1962
as Chang
MovieThe Pirates of Blood River
1962
as Bosu'n Hench
MovieNight Conspirators
1962
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
MovieThe Secret of Monte Cristo
1961
as Boldini
Drama 61-67
1961
as Lieutenant
MovieThe Hellfire Club
1961
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
TVThe Avengers
1961
MovieA Story of David
1960
as Doeg
TVDanger Man
1960
as Major Hassler
MovieSands of the Desert
1960
as Sheikh El Jabez
MovieConspiracy of Hearts
1960
as Lt. Schmidt
MovieScent of Mystery
1960
as Robert Fleming
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
MovieDanger Within
1959
as Capitano Benucci
MovieThe Moonraker
1958
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
MovieIntent to Kill
1958
as Kral
MovieIce Cold in Alex
1958
as British Officer at Oasis
MovieStrangers' Meeting
1957
as Harry Belair
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957
as Father Maggiore
MovieHigh Tide at Noon
1957
as Owen MacKenzie
MovieTarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
as Dick Penrod
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as The Old Visitor
MovieThe Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Marine Stevens
MovieTimeslip
1955
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
MovieThe Dam Busters
1955
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
MovieMystery on Bird Island
1954
as Henri
MovieThe Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
MovieSaraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as Assailant
MovieFor Those in Peril
1944
as Junior Officer
