Peter Arne
Acting
Born 1920-09-29
Died 1983-08-01
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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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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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
The Avengers
The Saint
Playhouse
Danger Man
The Champions
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Protectors
Secret Army
The Expert
Out of the Unknown
The Main Chance
Drama 61-67
Department S
Man of the World
The Return of the Pink Panther
Straw Dogs
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Crane
Trail of the Pink Panther
Curse of the Pink Panther
Victor/Victoria
Khartoum
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
To Serve Them All My Days
The Mask of Janus
The Far Pavilions
The Spies
The Dam Busters
The Oblong Box
The Sentimental Agent
The Passage
The Pirates of Blood River
Agatha
Antony and Cleopatra
Providence
Danger Within
Ice Cold in Alex
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Pope Joan
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Secret of Monte Cristo
When Eight Bells Toll
Armchair Theatre
Night Conspirators
This Way for Murder
The Cockleshell Heroes
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Tangiers
The Hellfire Club
Nobody Ordered Love
The Moonraker
The Sandwich Man
Intent to Kill
Mystery on Bird Island
The Black Torment
High Tide at Noon
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