Peter Arne

Actor Sep 29 (died age 62) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1944–1984 (40 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 …

Known For

Film

Straw Dogs

John Niles

Film

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Captain of Guard

Film

Victor/Victoria

Labisse

Film

The Return of the Pink Panther

Colonel Sharki

Film

The Dam Busters

Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)

Film

Ice Cold in Alex

British Officer at Oasis

Film

Khartoum

Major Kitchener

Film

Trail of the Pink Panther

Col. Bufoni

Filmography

Acting (70)

Movies (45)

Curse of the Pink Panther

as General Bufoni

Victor/Victoria

as Labisse

Trail of the Pink Panther

as Col. Bufoni

Tangiers

as Malen

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

1980

as Art Gallery Manager

Agatha

as Hotel Manager

The Passage

as Guide

Providence

as Nils

The Return of the Pink Panther

as Colonel Sharki

Pope Joan

as Richard

Antony and Cleopatra

as Menas

Nobody Ordered Love

as Leo Richardstone

Straw Dogs

1971

as John Niles

7.2

When Eight Bells Toll

1971

as Capt. Imrie

5.7

Murders in the Rue Morgue

as Aubert

The Oblong Box

as Samuel Trench

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968

as Captain of Guard

6.8

Poor Cherry

1967

as Philip Rick

Battle Beneath the Earth

as Arnold Kramer

Khartoum

as Major Kitchener

The Sandwich Man

as Gentleman in Rolls Royce

6.1

The Black Torment

1964

as Seymour

5.9

Girl in the Headlines

1963

as Hammond Barker

5.8

The Pirates of Blood River

1962

as Bosu'n Hench

6.1

Night Conspirators

1962

as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler

The Hellfire Club

1961

as Thomas

4.7

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

as Boldini

Scent of Mystery

as Robert Fleming

A Story of David

as Doeg

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Lt. Schmidt

Sands of the Desert

as Sheikh El Jabez

Danger Within

as Capitano Benucci

Ice Cold in Alex

as British Officer at Oasis

7.3

The Moonraker

1958

as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler

6.8

Intent to Kill

1958

as Kral

4.4

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

1957

as Dick Penrod

5.4

Strangers' Meeting

1957

as Harry Belair

High Tide at Noon

1957

as Owen MacKenzie

6.0

Timeslip

1955

as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis

5.6

The Dam Busters

1955

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

6.9

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

as Marine Stevens

5.9

Mystery on Bird Island

1954

as Henri

6.0

The Men of Sherwood Forest

1954

6.6

Saraband for Dead Lovers

as Assailant

For Those in Peril

as Junior Officer

Television (25)

The Far Pavilions

1984

as The General

7.5

To Serve Them All My Days

as Dr Farrington

Hart to Hart

Secret Army

as Colonel von Schalk

7.5

Playhouse

1974

as Art Gallery Manager

7.0

The Protectors

1972

as Mario Giocvetti

5.8

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Colonel Davidoff

The Main Chance

as Ernest Leggatt

Department S

as Slovic

The Champions

as Margoli

The Expert

as Dr. Hamad

Man in a Suitcase

The Spies

as Copic

Out of the Unknown

as Gavin

The Mask of Janus

as Copic

The Sentimental Agent

1963

as Strink

6.0

Crane

1963

as Michael Harrington

The Saint

as Pablo Enriquez

Man of the World

as Chang

The Avengers

as Cosmo Gallion

Drama 61-67

as Lieutenant

Danger Man

as Major Hassler

No Hiding Place

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

1957

as Father Maggiore

Armchair Theatre

1956

as The Old Visitor

5.8