Arthur Treacher
Acting
Born 1894-07-22 · Brighton, England, UK · Died 1975-12-14
Born Arthur Veary Treacher in Brighton, East Sussex, England, he was the son of a lawyer. He established a stage career after returning from World War I, and by 1928, he had come to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. When his film career began in the early 1930s, Treacher was Hollywood's idea of the perfect butler, and he headlined as the famous butler Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) and Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)--based on the P.G. Wodehouse character. He played a butler in numerous other films including: Personal Maid's Secret (1935), Mister Cinderella (1936), Bordertown (1935), and Curly Top (1935). By the mid 1960s, Treacher was a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show (1962). The image of the proper Englishman served him well, and during his later years, he lent his name to a fast-food chain known as Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips.
Acting
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Mary Poppins
Constable
How to Avoid Friendship
Narrator
How to Live with a Neurotic Dog
Narrator
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Beverly Hillbillies
Arthur Pinckney
How to Win on the Thruway
Narrator
Self Defense... for Cowards
Narrator
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Graves the Butler
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Climax!
Bishop Thornley
Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland
The Cheshire Cat
Down You Go
Self - Panelist
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Love That Brute
Quentin, Hanley's Butler
That Midnight Kiss
Hutchins
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Hotel Managing Director
The Philco Television Playhouse
Uncle Fred
The Philco Television Playhouse
Slave Girl
Thomas Griswold
Fun on a Weekend
Benjamin O. Moffatt
That's the Spirit
Masters
Swing Out, Sister
Chumley
Delightfully Dangerous
Jeffers
National Velvet
Race Patron
In Society
Pipps, Butler
Chip Off the Old Block
Quentin
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Henderson