Peter Arne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-09-29 (63 years old)

Deathday

1983-08-01

Place of Birth

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Peter Arne

Biography

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 ret...

Acting

1971

Straw Dogs

as John Niles

1975

1982

Victor/Victoria

as Labisse

1966

Khartoum

as Major Kitchener

1967

Battle Beneath the Earth

as Arnold Kramer

1955

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Marine Stevens

1967

Poor Cherry

as Philip Rick

1957

1969

The Oblong Box

as Samuel Trench

1963

Girl in the Headlines

as Hammond Barker

1958

1957

Strangers' Meeting

as Harry Belair

1961

1964

1955

Timeslip

as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis

1944

For Those in Peril

as Junior Officer

1960

Scent of Mystery

as Robert Fleming

1960

1957

High Tide at Noon

as Owen MacKenzie

1960

Sands of the Desert

as Sheikh El Jabez

1960

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Lt. Schmidt

1959

Danger Within

as Capitano Benucci

1958

The Moonraker

as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler

1955

The Dam Busters

as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)

1968

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Captain of Guard

1983

Curse of the Pink Panther

as General Bufoni

1966

The Sandwich Man

as Gentleman in Rolls Royce

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

as British Officer at Oasis

1972

Nobody Ordered Love

as Leo Richardstone

1979

Agatha

as Hotel Manager

1971

When Eight Bells Toll

as Capt. Imrie

1962

1977

Providence

as Nils

1979

The Passage

as Guide

1972

Pope Joan

as Richard

1982

1980

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

as Art Gallery Manager

1948

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