Peter Arne

Known for ActingBorn 1920-09-29Died 1983-08-01Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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.Read more

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The Spies

Crane

The Expert

Strangers' Meeting

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The Main Chance

Nobody Ordered Love

The Mask of Janus

To Serve Them All My Days

Secret Army

The Far Pavilions

Tangiers

The Avengers

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Victor/Victoria

The Saint

Danger Man

Man in a Suitcase

Ice Cold in Alex

Straw Dogs

Mystery on Bird Island

Man of the World

Out of the Unknown

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Hart to Hart

The Return of the Pink Panther

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The Moonraker

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The Sandwich Man

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Saraband for Dead Lovers

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Agatha

Danger Within

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The Pirates of Blood River

Girl in the Headlines

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High Tide at Noon

Scent of Mystery

Armchair Theatre

For Those in Peril