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.
Straw Dogs
(John Niles)
The Men of Sherwood Forest
The Return of the Pink Panther
(Colonel Sharki)
Victor/Victoria
(Labisse)
Khartoum
(Major Kitchener)
Battle Beneath the Earth
(Arnold Kramer)
The Cockleshell Heroes
(Marine Stevens)
Poor Cherry
(Philip Rick)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
(Dick Penrod)
The Oblong Box
(Samuel Trench)
Girl in the Headlines
(Hammond Barker)
Intent to Kill
(Kral)
Strangers' Meeting
(Harry Belair)
The Hellfire Club
(Thomas)
The Black Torment
(Seymour)
Timeslip
(Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis)
For Those in Peril
(Junior Officer)
Scent of Mystery
(Robert Fleming)
A Story of David
(Doeg)
High Tide at Noon
(Owen MacKenzie)
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
(Boldini)
Sands of the Desert
(Sheikh El Jabez)
Conspiracy of Hearts
(Lt. Schmidt)
Danger Within
(Capitano Benucci)
The Moonraker
(Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler)
The Dam Busters
(Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited))
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(Captain of Guard)
Curse of the Pink Panther
(General Bufoni)
The Sandwich Man
(Gentleman in Rolls Royce)
Antony and Cleopatra
(Menas)
Ice Cold in Alex
(British Officer at Oasis)
Nobody Ordered Love
(Leo Richardstone)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
(Aubert)
Agatha
(Hotel Manager)
When Eight Bells Toll
(Capt. Imrie)
The Pirates of Blood River
(Bosu'n Hench)
Providence
(Nils)
The Passage
(Guide)
Pope Joan
(Richard)
Trail of the Pink Panther
(Col. Bufoni)
Mystery on Bird Island
(Henri)
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
(Art Gallery Manager)
Department S
(Slovic)
The Avengers
The Protectors
(Mario Giocvetti)
Hart to Hart
The Saint
(Pablo Enriquez)
The Champions
(Margoli)
The Venturers
The Sentimental Agent
No Hiding Place
The Expert
(Dr. Hamad)
The Spies
Man in a Suitcase
Drama 61-67
(Lieutenant)
The Main Chance
(Ernest Leggatt)
Secret Army
(Colonel von Schalk)
Department S
(Segres)
Danger Man
(Major Hassler)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
(Colonel Davidoff)
The Far Pavilions
(The General)