1920-09-29 ( 104 years old ) in 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, 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.
Movies
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983-08-12
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982-12-03
Victor/Victoria
1982-04-25
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980-07-13
The Passage
1979-03-09
Agatha
1979-02-09
Providence
1977-01-25
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975-05-21
Pope Joan
1972-08-16
Nobody Ordered Love
1972-05-01
Antony and Cleopatra
1972-03-18
Straw Dogs
1971-11-25
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971-07-21
When Eight Bells Toll
1971-03-09
The Oblong Box
1969-06-11
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968-12-17
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967-10-01
Poor Cherry
1967-09-09
The Sandwich Man
1966-07-01
Khartoum
1966-06-09
The Black Torment
1964-10-19
Girl in the Headlines
1963-11-15
The Pirates of Blood River
1962-05-09
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1961-06-22
The Hellfire Club
1961-02-03
A Story of David
1960-12-01
Sands of the Desert
1960-09-08
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960-04-07
Scent of Mystery
1960-01-12
Danger Within
1959-02-17
The Moonraker
1958-08-02
Intent to Kill
1958-07-16
Ice Cold in Alex
1958-06-24
Strangers' Meeting
1957-10-30
High Tide at Noon
1957-04-30
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957-04-12
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955-11-16
Timeslip
1955-11-01
The Dam Busters
1955-05-16
Mystery on Bird Island
1954-12-01
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954-11-01
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
For Those in Peril
1944-06-01
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