Cast
Peter Arne
Acting
Cast
Peter Arne
Known for
Acting
Born
1920-09-29
From
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Died
1983-08-01
Also known as Peter Randolph Michael Albrecht
Biography
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
as John Niles
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Captain of Guard
Victor/Victoria
as Labisse
Khartoum
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
Pope Joan
as Richard
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Colonel Sharki
Curse of the Pink Panther
as General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Col. Bufoni
Antony and Cleopatra
as Menas
When Eight Bells Toll
as Capt. Imrie
The Passage
as Guide
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Marine Stevens
The Dam Busters
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Providence
as Nils
Ice Cold in Alex
as British Officer at Oasis
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Assailant
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
as Dick Penrod
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Aubert
Agatha
as Hotel Manager
The Moonraker
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Nobody Ordered Love
as Leo Richardstone
Danger Within
as Capitano Benucci
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Tangiers
as Malen
The Pirates of Blood River
as Bosu'n Hench
The Sandwich Man
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
The Oblong Box
as Samuel Trench
Girl in the Headlines
as Hammond Barker
Timeslip
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Lt. Schmidt
The Hellfire Club
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
Sands of the Desert
as Sheikh El Jabez
The Black Torment
as Seymour
Battle Beneath the Earth
as Arnold Kramer
Scent of Mystery
as Robert Fleming
A Story of David
as Doeg
High Tide at Noon
as Owen MacKenzie
For Those in Peril
as Junior Officer
Poor Cherry
as Philip Rick
Strangers' Meeting
as Harry Belair
Intent to Kill
as Kral
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Boldini
The Shattered Eye
as Gavin
Mystery on Bird Island
as Henri
Night Conspirators
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
as Art Gallery Manager