Athur Treacher More than Fish & Chips

His name is now mostly associated with a chain of fish and chip shops but he was a very fine actor.  Born and raised in England he started his stage career after service in World War I. He was brought to the US by Billy Rose for his Broadway production of Sweet and Low. Treacher than branched out into the movies and was a co-star to Shirley Temple in some of her most iconic roles. Treacher being six feet four inches towered over her in the song and dance routines. The role he is most remembered for though was of Jeeves the ultimate man's man. As P G Wodehouse's valet Jeeves he was in two of the Jeeves and Wooster films. He then went on to play a series of butlers and valets. One of his memorable butler roles was on The Beverly Hillbillies. He played a butler named Arthur Pinkley who thinks that the Clampetts are servants and they think he is a border.

Other people will remember Arthur Treacher as Merv Griffen's side kick for many years on the Merv Griffen show. He left the show when it was relocated from New York to Los Angeles. He was rather elderly at the time and felt he couldn't move to a place where the ground would shake.
One of Treachers last movie roles was that of Constable Jones in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins.

Arthur Treach died at the age of 81 in New York. He was married to his wife Virginia Taylor for 31 years at the time of his death from a heart attack.