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Peter Arne
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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.…
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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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Peter Arne's Filmography
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Curse of the Pink Panther
as General Bufoni
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Col. Bufoni
Victor/Victoria
as Labisse
No Poster
Tangiers
as Malen
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
as Art Gallery Manager
The Passage
as Guide
Agatha
as Hotel Manager
Providence
as Nils
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Colonel Sharki
Pope Joan
as Richard
No Poster
Nobody Ordered Love
as Leo Richardstone
Antony and Cleopatra
as Menas
Straw Dogs
as John Niles
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Aubert
The Shattered Eye
as Gavin
When Eight Bells Toll
as Capt. Imrie
The Oblong Box
as Samuel Trench
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Captain of Guard
Battle Beneath the Earth
as Arnold Kramer
Poor Cherry
as Philip Rick
The Sandwich Man
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
Khartoum
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Black Torment
as Seymour
Girl in the Headlines
as Hammond Barker
The Pirates of Blood River
as Bosu'n Hench
Night Conspirators
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
The Secret of Monte Cristo
as Boldini
The Hellfire Club
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden
A Story of David
as Doeg
Sands of the Desert
as Sheikh El Jabez
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Lt. Schmidt
Scent of Mystery
as Robert Fleming
Danger Within
as Capitano Benucci
The Moonraker
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Intent to Kill
as Kral
Ice Cold in Alex
as British Officer at Oasis
Strangers' Meeting
as Harry Belair
High Tide at Noon
as Owen MacKenzie
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
as Dick Penrod
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Marine Stevens
Timeslip
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
The Dam Busters
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
Mystery on Bird Island
as Henri
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Assailant
For Those in Peril
as Junior Officer