Arthur Treacher

Known for ActingBorn 1894-07-22Died 1975-12-14Brighton, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Up the River

The Daring Young Man

How to Win on the Thruway

Down You Go

Mary Poppins

Hitch Hike Lady

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Slave Girl

Forever and a Day

The Battle of Paris

Magnificent Obsession

Always in Trouble

Under Your Spell

Fun on a Weekend

Cardinal Richelieu

How to Avoid Friendship

National Velvet

How to Live with a Neurotic Dog

Go Into Your Dance

Desirable

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Countess of Monte Cristo

The Merv Griffin Show

Chip Off the Old Block

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Mad About Music

Mister Cinderella

Love That Brute

Heidi

Self Defense... for Cowards

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Thin Ice

That's the Spirit

The Philco Television Playhouse

Shirley Temple's Storybook

David Copperfield

Splendor

Stowaway

The Nitwits

The Little Princess

I Live My Life

Fashions of 1934

Irene

Barricade

You Can't Have Everything

Going Highbrow

Here Comes the Groom

Curly Top