Peter Arne

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...

Known For

Straw Dogs

as John Niles

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Captain of Guard

Cast Credits

Curse of the Pink Panther

as General Bufoni

Victor/Victoria

as Labisse

Tangiers

as Malen

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

as Art Gallery Manager

The Passage

as Guide

Agatha

as Hotel Manager

Providence

as Nils

Pope Joan

as Richard

Nobody Ordered Love

as Leo Richardstone

Straw Dogs

as John Niles

When Eight Bells Toll

as Capt. Imrie

The Oblong Box

as Samuel Trench

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Captain of Guard

Battle Beneath the Earth

as Arnold Kramer

Poor Cherry

as Philip Rick

The Sandwich Man

as Gentleman in Rolls Royce

Khartoum

as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt

Girl in the Headlines

as Hammond Barker

Night Conspirators

as The Old Visitor/Adolf Hitler

Sands of the Desert

as Sheikh El Jabez