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Arthur Treacher

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Actor 1894–1975 On stage 19261960

Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. ( TREE-chər; 23 July 1894 – 14 December 1975) was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P. G. Wodehouse valet character Jeeves (Thank You, Jeeves!, 1936) and the kind butlers opposite Shirley Temple in Curly Top (1935) and Heidi (1937). In the 1960s, he became well known on American television as an announcer and sidekick to talk show host Merv Griffin, and as the support character Constable Jones in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964). He lent his name to the Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips chain of restaurants.

On stage 12 productions, 34 years

1926 The Great Temptations Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by J. J. Shubert 223 perf.
1930 Sweet and Low Chanins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Danny Dare 184 perf.
1931 Colonel Satan Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Logan 17 perf.
1931 The School for Scandal Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Revival · directed by E. M. Blyth 23 perf.
1931 The Wonder Bar Nora Bayes Theatre · Original · directed by William Mollison 76 perf.
1940 Panama Hattie 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 501 perf.
1943 Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by John Murray Anderson 553 perf.
1949 Caesar and Cleopatra National Theatre · Revival · directed by Cedric Hardwicke 151 perf.
1951 Getting Married Anta Playhouse · Revival · directed by Peter Frye 16 perf.
1958 Back to Methuselah Ambassador Theatre · Revival · directed by Margaret Webster 29 perf.
1959 The Fighting Cock Anta Playhouse · Original · directed by Peter Brook 87 perf.
1960 Camelot Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Moss Hart (Alan Jay Lerner uncredited) 873 perf.

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Worked with more than once7 names

Ronald Telfer 2 productions
Roddy McDowall 2 productions
Nadine Gae 2 productions
Mckay Morris 2 productions
John Buckmaster 2 productions
Elvira Trabert 2 productions
Don Weissmuller 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Ethel Merman, Arthur Treacher, James Dunn, Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington, Frank Hyers, Phyllis Brooks, Betty Hutton, Joan Carroll, June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Vera Ellen, Betsy Blairebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • From the start of rehearsals, Arthur Treacher and his wife, Virginia, always called Ethel “Hattie,” and she began seeing a good deal of them after rehearsals. One evening she was invited to their apartment for cocktails, and there she met Treacher’s agent, William Smith, who worked for the Feldman-Blum Agency in Hollywood. Publicist Julia…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • C AST : Ethel Merman (as Hattie Maloney), James Dunn, Joan Carroll, Betty Hutton, Arthur Treacher, Pat Harrington, Frank Hyers, Rags Ragland, Phyllis Brooksebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • C AST : Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman (as Reno Sweeney), Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Arthur Treacher, Grace Bradley, Margaret Dumontebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • HARDWICKE, JOHN BUCKMASTER, LILL! PALMER, ARTHUR TREACHER, RALPH FORBES in “CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
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