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
Complete Filmography
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as General Bufoni
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Su...
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Col. Bufoni
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-ro...
Victor/Victoria
1982
as Labisse
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
1980
as Art Gallery Manager
A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor wh...
The Passage
1979
as Guide
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pur...
Agatha
1979
as Hotel Manager
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
Providence
1977
as Nils
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing sc...
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Colonel Sharki
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The ...
Pope Joan
1972
as Richard
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...
Nobody Ordered Love
1972
as Leo Richardstone
During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from...
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Menas
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. Th...
Straw Dogs
1971
as John Niles
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Aubert
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Mor...
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Capt. Imrie
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coas...
The Oblong Box
1969
as Samuel Trench
Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
as Captain of Guard
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
as Arnold Kramer
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Poor Cherry
1967
as Philip Rick
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other...
The Sandwich Man
1966
as Gentleman in Rolls Royce
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Khartoum
1966
as Major Kitchener
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
The Black Torment
1964
as Seymour
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost hi...
Girl in the Headlines
1963
as Hammond Barker
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat ...
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
as Bosu'n Hench
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it...
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1961
as Boldini
A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jack...
The Hellfire Club
1961
as Thomas
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Th...
A Story of David
1960
as Doeg
Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's a...
Sands of the Desert
1960
as Sheikh El Jabez
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort i...
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
as Lt. Schmidt
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what...
Scent of Mystery
1960
as Robert Fleming
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
Danger Within
1959
as Capitano Benucci
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysteriou...
The Moonraker
1958
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future kin...
Intent to Kill
1958
as Kral
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on ...
Ice Cold in Alex
1958
as British Officer at Oasis
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader o...
Strangers' Meeting
1957
as Harry Belair
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence h...
High Tide at Noon
1957
as Owen MacKenzie
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -...
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
as Dick Penrod
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Marine Stevens
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Timeslip
1955
as Dr. Stephen Rayner / Jarvis
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven...
The Dam Busters
1955
as Staff Officer to Air-Vice Marshal Cochrane (uncredited)
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S...
Mystery on Bird Island
1954
as Henri
Story of four youngsters who discover birds' nest thieves on a sanctuary island.From story by Mary Cathcart Borer.
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from ca...
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as Assailant
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of E...
For Those in Peril
1944
as Junior Officer
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking the...