Peter Arne
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-09-29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Died
1983-08-01
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.
Most Known For
The Avengers
The Avengers
as Cosmo Gallion
The Saint
as Pablo Enriquez
Hart to Hart
Playhouse
as Art Gallery Manager
No Hiding Place
The Champions
as Margoli
Danger Man
as Major Hassler
The Expert
as Dr. Hamad
Khartoum
as Major Kitchener
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Davidoff
The Main Chance
as Ernest Leggatt
The Protectors
as Mario Giocvetti
Out of the Unknown
as Gavin
Secret Army
as Colonel von Schalk
Tangiers
as Malen
Providence
as Nils
Department S
as Slovic
Department S
as Segres
