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.
Filmography
all 61
Movies 41
TV Shows 20
The Far Pavilions (1984)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
The Little World of Don Camillo (1981)
Hart to Hart (1979)
The Passage (1979)
Agatha (1979)
Secret Army (1977)
Providence (1977)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Venturers (1975)
The Protectors (1972)
Pope Joan (1972)
Nobody Ordered Love (1972)
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Department S (1969)
The Main Chance (1969)
The Oblong Box (1969)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
The Champions (1968)
The Expert (1968)
Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
Man in a Suitcase (1967)
Poor Cherry (1967)
That Swinging City (1966)
Khartoum (1966)
The Spies (1966)
The Mask of Janus (1965)
The Black Torment (1964)
Girl in the Headlines (1963)
The Sentimental Agent (1963)
The Saint (1962)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
Drama 61-67 (1961)
The Hellfire Club (1961)
The Avengers (1961)
A Story of David (1960)
Danger Man (1960)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
Scent of Mystery (1960)
No Hiding Place (1959)
Danger Within (1959)
The Moonraker (1958)
Intent to Kill (1958)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Strangers' Meeting (1957)
High Tide at Noon (1957)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Timeslip (1955)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Mystery on Bird Island (1954)
The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
For Those in Peril (1944)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1920-09-29
Deathday1983-08-01 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsPeter Randolph Michael Albrecht
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