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 Beverly Hillbillies as Arthur Pinckney
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 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
- Swing Out, Sister as Chumley
- Delightfully Dangerous as Jeffers
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
- Irene as Bretherton
- Brother Rat and a Baby as Snelling
1939
- The Little Princess as Bertie Minchin
- Bridal Suite as Lord Helfer
- Barricade as Upton Ward
1938
- Mad About Music as Tripps
- Up the River as Darby Randall
- Always in Trouble as Rogers
- My Lucky Star as Whipple
1937
- Heidi as Andrews
- She Had to Eat as Carter
- Thin Ice as Nottingham
- Step Lively, Jeeves! as Jeeves
- You Can't Have Everything as Bevins
1936
- Stowaway as Atkins
- Hearts Divided as Sir Harry
- Anything Goes as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh
- The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Griggsby
- Under Your Spell as Botts
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Jeeves
- Satan Met a Lady as Anthony Travers
- Mister Cinderella as Watkins, Randolph's Butler
1935
- Curly Top as The Butler
- Going Highbrow as Waiter
- Cardinal Richelieu as Agitator
- Bright Lights as Wilbur
- Magnificent Obsession as Horace
- No More Ladies as Lord Knowleton
- The Nitwits as Man with Tennis Equipment
- Splendor as Major Ballinger
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Epilogue
- David Copperfield as Donkey Man (uncredited)
- Go Into Your Dance as Latimer
- The Woman in Red as Major Albert Casserly (uncredited)
- Personal Maid's Secret as Owen
- Let's Live Tonight as Ozzy Featherstone
- Hitch Hike Lady as Mortimer Wingate
- Remember Last Night? as Clarence Phelps
- Orchids to You as Roger Morton
- The Daring Young Man as Col. Baggott
- I Live My Life as Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler
- The Winning Ticket as Horse Race Announcer
1934
- Hollywood Party as Durante's Butler (uncredited)
- The Key as Merriman
- The Captain Hates the Sea as Major Warringforth
- Fashions of 1934 as The Duchess' Butler (uncredited)
- School for Romance as Diana's suitor
- Gambling Lady as Pryor (uncredited)
- Desirable as Butler
- Here Comes the Groom as Butler
- Forsaking All Others as Johnson (Uncredited)
1929
- The Battle of Paris as Harry