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.
★6.8
MOVIE1968
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Captain of Guard
★7.3
MOVIE1982
Victor/Victoria
as Labisse
★7.2
MOVIE1971
Straw Dogs
as John Niles
★6.8
MOVIE1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Colonel Sharki
★4.6
MOVIE1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
as General Bufoni
★4.2
MOVIE1961
The Secret of Monte Cristo
as Boldini
★6.3
MOVIE1966
Khartoum
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
★5.2
MOVIE1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Col. Bufoni
★5.7
MOVIE1972
Antony and Cleopatra
as Menas
MOVIE1962
Night Conspirators
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
★6.9
MOVIE1955
The Dam Busters
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Assailant
★6.6
MOVIE1977
Providence
as Nils
★6.1
MOVIE1979
The Passage
as Guide
★5.9
MOVIE1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Marine Stevens
★5.7
MOVIE1971
When Eight Bells Toll
as Capt. Imrie
★5.1
MOVIE1971
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Aubert
★6.3
MOVIE1959
Danger Within
as Capitano Benucci
★5.8
MOVIE1969
The Oblong Box
as Samuel Trench
★6.9
MOVIE1954
The Men of Sherwood Forest
★6.2
MOVIE1963
Girl in the Headlines
as Hammond Barker
★7.3
MOVIE1958
Ice Cold in Alex
as British Officer at Oasis
★5.5
MOVIE1957
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
as Dick Penrod
★6.2
MOVIE1962
The Pirates of Blood River
as Bosu'n Hench
★5.4
MOVIE1961
The Hellfire Club
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
★6.5
MOVIE1966
The Sandwich Man
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
★6.1
MOVIE1944
For Those in Peril
as Junior Officer
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Nobody Ordered Love
as Leo Richardstone
★6.1
MOVIE1979
Agatha
as Hotel Manager
★7.5
MOVIE1982
Tangiers
as Malen
MOVIE1971
The Shattered Eye
as Gavin
★5.9
MOVIE1964
The Black Torment
as Seymour
★5.8
MOVIE1955
Timeslip
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
★4.8
MOVIE1967
Battle Beneath the Earth
as Arnold Kramer
★7.3
MOVIE1954
Mystery on Bird Island
as Henri
★6.9
MOVIE1958
The Moonraker
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
★5.2
MOVIE1958
Intent to Kill
as Kral
★6.1
MOVIE1972
Pope Joan
as Richard
★6.8
MOVIE1960
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Lt. Schmidt
★6.0
MOVIE1960
Scent of Mystery
as Robert Fleming
★5.6
MOVIE1960
Sands of the Desert
as Sheikh El Jabez
★5.4
MOVIE1960
A Story of David
as Doeg
MOVIE1980
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
as Art Gallery Manager
★6.2
MOVIE1957
High Tide at Noon
as Owen MacKenzie
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Strangers' Meeting
as Harry Belair
MOVIE1967
Poor Cherry
as Philip Rick