Arthur Treacher
Arthur Treacher was born in Brighton, England, United Kingdom on July 23rd, 1894 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 81, Arthur Treacher biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Arthur Veary Treacher (born 23 July 1894 – December 1975) was an English film and stage actor known for portraying English stereotypes, especially butler and manservant roles, as the P.G.
Jeeves, a Wodehouse valet character, 1936 (Thank You, Jeeves, 1936) and Andrews, a kind butler opposite Shirley Temple in Heidi (1937).
He rose to fame on American television in the 1960s as an announcer/sidekick to talk show host Merv Griffin.
He lent his name to Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips chain of restaurants.
Personal life
Treacher was the son of Arthur Veary Treacher (1862-1924), a Sussex solicitor; his mother, Alice Mary Longhurst (1865-1946), was a poet. He was educated at a boarding school in Uppingham, Rutland, and was taught by him. He married Virginia Taylor (1898-1984) in 1936.
Acting career
Treacher, a veteran of World War I, served as an Artillery Sergeant of the Royal Garrison Artillery; his father served with the Sussex Volunteer Artillery prior to Treacher's birth. He began acting in England after the war and moved to New York in March 1926 as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. He appeared in the 1930 Billy Rose musical revue Sweet and Low.
He began his film career in the 1930s, which included appearances in four Shirley Temple films: Curly Top (1935), Stowaway (1936), Heidi (1939), and The Little Princess (1939). Scenes were deliberately designed to have the 6' 4" Treacher on the stage or dancing side with the tiny child actress; for example, in The Little Princess, the children perform and dance to an old song "Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road."
Treacher played the role of the ideal butler, and in the films Thank You, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's vainque character Jeeves. (1936) and Step Lively, Jeeves (1937). (Wodehouse, on the other hand, was dissatisfied with the way his production had been developed and refused to allow any more Jeeves movies.) In several other films, including Personal Maid's Secret, Mister Cinderella, and Bordertown, Treacher played a valet or butler. In the 1941 cartoon Hollywood Steps Out, he was caricatured.
Treacher served on radio stations in the 1940s and early 1950s, most notably as a waiter at Duffy's Tavern.