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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.

The Far Pavilions
as The General

Curse of the Pink Panther
as General Bufoni

Trail of the Pink Panther
as Col. Bufoni

Victor/Victoria
as Labisse
Tangiers
as Malen

To Serve Them All My Days
as Dr Farrington

Hallelujah, Mary Plum
as Art Gallery Manager

Hart to Hart

The Passage
as Guide

Agatha
as Hotel Manager

Secret Army
as Colonel von Schalk

Providence
as Nils

The Return of the Pink Panther
as Colonel Sharki

Playhouse
as Art Gallery Manager

The Protectors
as Mario Giocvetti

Pope Joan
as Richard
Nobody Ordered Love
as Leo Richardstone

Antony and Cleopatra
as Menas

Straw Dogs
as John Niles

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Davidoff

Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Aubert

The Shattered Eye
as Gavin

When Eight Bells Toll
as Capt. Imrie

Department S
as Slovic

The Main Chance
as Ernest Leggatt

The Oblong Box
as Samuel Trench

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Captain of Guard

The Champions
as Margoli

The Expert
as Dr. Hamad

Battle Beneath the Earth
as Arnold Kramer

Man in a Suitcase

Poor Cherry
as Philip Rick

The Sandwich Man
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce

Khartoum
as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
The Spies
as Copic
The Mask of Janus
as Copic

Out of the Unknown
as Gavin

The Black Torment
as Seymour

Girl in the Headlines
as Hammond Barker

The Sentimental Agent
as Strink
Crane
as Michael Harrington

The Saint
as Pablo Enriquez

Man of the World
as Chang

The Pirates of Blood River
as Bosu'n Hench

Night Conspirators
as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler

The Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Boldini
Drama 61-67
as Lieutenant

The Hellfire Club
as Thomas - Earl of Netherden

The Avengers

A Story of David
as Doeg

Danger Man
as Major Hassler

Sands of the Desert
as Sheikh El Jabez

Conspiracy of Hearts
as Lt. Schmidt

Scent of Mystery
as Robert Fleming

No Hiding Place

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