Arthur Treacher
Born: 1894-07-22 in Brighton, England, UK
Died: 1975-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1993
- Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling as Self (archive footage)
1964
- Mary Poppins as Constable
- How to Avoid Friendship as Narrator
1963
- How to Live with a Neurotic Dog as Narrator
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Arthur Pinckney
- How to Win on the Thruway as Narrator
- Self Defense... for Cowards as Narrator
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1958
- Shirley Temple's Storybook as Graves the Butler
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1954
- Climax! as Bishop Thornley
- Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat
1951
- Down You Go as Self - Panelist
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Love That Brute as Quentin, Hanley's Butler
1949
- That Midnight Kiss as Hutchins
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Uncle Fred
- The Countess of Monte Cristo as Hotel Managing Director
1947
- Fun on a Weekend as Benjamin O. Moffatt
- Slave Girl as Thomas Griswold
1945
- National Velvet as Race Patron
- That's the Spirit as Masters
- Delightfully Dangerous as Jeffers
- Swing Out, Sister as Chumley
1944
- In Society as Pipps, Butler
- Chip Off the Old Block as Quentin
1943
- Forever and a Day as Second Air Raid Watcher
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as Henderson
1942
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Arthur Treacher
1940
- Brother Rat and a Baby as Snelling
- Irene as Bretherton
1939
- The Little Princess as Bertie Minchin
- Bridal Suite as Lord Helfer
- Barricade as Upton Ward
1938
- Up the River as Darby Randall
- Mad About Music as Tripps
- My Lucky Star as Whipple
- Always in Trouble as Rogers
1937
- Heidi as Andrews
- You Can't Have Everything as Bevins
- She Had to Eat as Carter
- Step Lively, Jeeves! as Jeeves
- Thin Ice as Nottingham
1936
- The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Griggsby
- Satan Met a Lady as Anthony Travers
- Stowaway as Atkins
- Anything Goes as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Jeeves
- Hearts Divided as Sir Harry
- Mister Cinderella as Watkins, Randolph's Butler
- Under Your Spell as Botts
1935
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Epilogue
- David Copperfield as Donkey Man (uncredited)
- I Live My Life as Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler
- Personal Maid's Secret as Owen
- The Woman in Red as Major Albert Casserly (uncredited)
- The Daring Young Man as Col. Baggott
- Curly Top as The Butler
- Go Into Your Dance as Latimer
- Let's Live Tonight as Ozzy Featherstone
- No More Ladies as Lord Knowleton
- Magnificent Obsession as Horace
- Cardinal Richelieu as Agitator
- The Winning Ticket as Horse Race Announcer
- Hitch Hike Lady as Mortimer Wingate
- Remember Last Night? as Clarence Phelps
- Bright Lights as Wilbur
- The Nitwits as Man with Tennis Equipment
- Splendor as Major Ballinger
- Orchids to You as Roger Morton
- Going Highbrow as Waiter
1934
- Fashions of 1934 as The Duchess' Butler (uncredited)
- Hollywood Party as Durante's Butler (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Groom as Butler
- Forsaking All Others as Johnson (Uncredited)
- The Captain Hates the Sea as Major Warringforth
- Gambling Lady as Pryor (uncredited)
- Desirable as Butler
- The Key as Merriman
- School for Romance as Diana's suitor
1929
- The Battle of Paris as Harry