Peter Arne

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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Peter Arne

Filmografia

Cane di paglia

La spada di Robin Hood

La pantera rosa colpisce ancora

Victor Victoria

Khartoum

Battle Beneath the Earth

Sopravvissuti: 2

Poor Cherry

Tarzan e il safari perduto

La rossa maschera del terrore

Così bella così sola così morta

Decisione di uccidere

Strangers' Meeting

The Hellfire Club

La Morte Nera

Timeslip

For Those in Peril

Scent of Mystery

La storia di David

Alta marea a mezzogiorno

Il segreto di Montecristo

Sands of the Desert

Conspiracy of Hearts

Danger Within

La spada di d'Artagnan

I guastatori delle dighe

Citty Citty Bang Bang

Pantera Rosa - Il mistero Clouseau

The Sandwich Man

All'ombra delle piramidi

Birra ghiacciata ad Alessandria

Nobody Ordered Love

I terrificanti delitti degli assassini della via Morgue

Il segreto di Agatha Christie

When Eight Bells Toll

I pirati del fiume rosso

Providence

Casablanca passage

La papessa Giovanna

Sulle orme della Pantera Rosa

Mystery on Bird Island

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

Sarabanda tragica

Night Conspirators

Tangiers

The Shattered Eye

Department S

Agente speciale

The Protectors

Cuore e batticuore

Il Santo

Tris d'assi

No Hiding Place

The Expert

Man in a Suitcase

Drama 61-67

The Main Chance

Secret Army

Gioco pericoloso

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Far Pavilions

The Spies

The Mask of Janus

Playhouse

Crane

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Man of the World

The Sentimental Agent

To Serve Them All My Days

Out of the Unknown

Armchair Theatre

This Way for Murder