Cast & creator
Peter Arne
Best known for The Avengers, The Avengers, The Saint
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.
Also known as: Peter Randolph Michael Albrecht
46
film credits
28
television credits
74
1944–1984 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (74)
Showing 74 of 74 credits
The Avengers
1961The Avengers
Cosmo Gallion
1961
The Saint
Pablo Enriquez
1962
Hart to Hart
1979
Playhouse
Art Gallery Manager
1974
No Hiding Place
1959
Danger Man
Major Hassler
1960
The Champions
Margoli
1968
The Expert
Dr. Hamad
1968
Secret Army
Colonel von Schalk
1977Drama 61-67
Lieutenant
1961
The Protectors
Mario Giocvetti
1972
Out of the Unknown
Gavin
1965
The Main Chance
Ernest Leggatt
1969
Man in a Suitcase
1967
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Davidoff
1971
Department S
Slovic
1969Department S
Segres
1969
Man of the World
Chang
1962Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Father Maggiore
1957
Trail of the Pink Panther
Col. Bufoni
1982Crane
Michael Harrington
1963
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Captain of Guard
1968The Mask of Janus
Copic
1965
To Serve Them All My Days
Dr Farrington
1980
The Sentimental Agent
Strink
1963
Straw Dogs
John Niles
1971
The Far Pavilions
The General
1984
Armchair Theatre
The Old Visitor
1956
Victor/Victoria
Labisse
1982
The Return of the Pink Panther
Colonel Sharki
1975
Curse of the Pink Panther
General Bufoni
1983The Spies
Copic
1966
Khartoum
Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
1966
Providence
Nils
1977
Ice Cold in Alex
British Officer at Oasis
1958
The Dam Busters
Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
1955
The Oblong Box
Samuel Trench
1969
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Aubert
1971
The Secret of Monte Cristo
Boldini
1961
When Eight Bells Toll
Capt. Imrie
1971
The Cockleshell Heroes
Marine Stevens
1955This Way for Murder
Worth
1967
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Assailant
1948
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
The Passage
Guide
1979
Antony and Cleopatra
Menas
1972
Girl in the Headlines
Hammond Barker
1963
The Pirates of Blood River
Bosu'n Hench
1962
Night Conspirators
The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler
1962
Agatha
Hotel Manager
1979
Pope Joan
Richard
1972
The Hellfire Club
Thomas - Earl of Netherden
1961
Battle Beneath the Earth
Arnold Kramer
1967
A Story of David
Doeg
1960
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Dick Penrod
1957
The Sandwich Man
Gentleman in Rolls Royce
1966
For Those in Peril
Junior Officer
1944
Mystery on Bird Island
Henri
1954
Sands of the Desert
Sheikh El Jabez
1960Tangiers
Malen
1982
High Tide at Noon
Owen MacKenzie
1957
The Moonraker
Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
1958
The Black Torment
Seymour
1964
Timeslip
Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
1955
Danger Within
Capitano Benucci
1959
Conspiracy of Hearts
Lt. Schmidt
1960
Scent of Mystery
Robert Fleming
1960
Intent to Kill
Kral
1958
The Shattered Eye
Gavin
1971Nobody Ordered Love
Leo Richardstone
1972
Strangers' Meeting
Harry Belair
1957
Poor Cherry
Philip Rick
1967
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Art Gallery Manager
1980