
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.

Victor/Victoria
1982 · as Labisse

The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · as Colonel Sharki

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968 · as Captain of Guard

Straw Dogs
1971 · as John Niles

Khartoum
1966 · as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983 · as General Bufoni

The Dam Busters
1955 · as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982 · as Col. Bufoni

Providence
1977 · as Nils

Danger Within
1959 · as Capitano Benucci

Ice Cold in Alex
1958 · as British Officer at Oasis

Tangiers
1982 · as Malen

The Passage
1979 · as Guide

Antony and Cleopatra
1972 · as Menas

Night Conspirators
1962 · as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler

The Sandwich Man
1966 · as Gentleman in Rolls Royce

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · as Marine Stevens

When Eight Bells Toll
1971 · as Capt. Imrie