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Peter Arne
Kuala 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,…
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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.
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1984
The Far Pavilions
TV show The General
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1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie General Bufoni
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1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
Movie Col. Bufoni
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1982
Victor/Victoria
Movie Labisse
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1982
Tangiers
Movie Malen
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1980
To Serve Them All My Days
TV show Dr Farrington
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1980
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Movie Art Gallery Manager
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1979
Hart to Hart
TV show
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1979
The Passage
Movie Guide
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1979
Agatha
Movie Hotel Manager
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1977
Secret Army
TV show Colonel von Schalk
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1977
Providence
Movie Nils
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1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
Movie Colonel Sharki
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1974
Playhouse
TV show Art Gallery Manager
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1972
The Protectors
TV show Mario Giocvetti
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1972
Pope Joan
Movie Richard
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1972
Nobody Ordered Love
Movie Leo Richardstone
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1972
Antony and Cleopatra
Movie Menas
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1971
Straw Dogs
Movie John Niles
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1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV show Colonel Davidoff
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1971
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie Aubert
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1971
The Shattered Eye
Movie Gavin
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1971
When Eight Bells Toll
Movie Capt. Imrie
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1969
Department S
TV show Slovic
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1969
The Main Chance
TV show Ernest Leggatt
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1969
The Oblong Box
Movie Samuel Trench
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1968
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Movie Captain of Guard
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1968
The Champions
TV show Margoli
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1968
The Expert
TV show Dr. Hamad
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1967
Battle Beneath the Earth
Movie Arnold Kramer
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1967
Man in a Suitcase
TV show
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1967
Poor Cherry
Movie Philip Rick
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1967
This Way for Murder
TV show Worth
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1966
The Sandwich Man
Movie Gentleman in Rolls Royce
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1966
Khartoum
Movie Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
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1966
The Spies
TV show Copic
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1965
The Mask of Janus
TV show Copic
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1965
Out of the Unknown
TV show Gavin
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1964
The Black Torment
Movie Seymour
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1963
Girl in the Headlines
Movie Hammond Barker
