Career
Treacher was a veteran of World War I. After the war, he established a stage career and in 1928, he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. He was featured in the 1930 Billy Rose production Sweet and Low.
He began his film career in the 1930s, which included roles in four Shirley Temple films: Curly Top (1935), Stowaway (1936), Heidi (1937), and The Little Princess (1939). Scenes intentionally put the six-feet-four Treacher standing or dancing side-by-side with the tiny child actress. Treacher filled the role of the ideal butler, and he portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's perfect valet character Jeeves in the films Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) and Step Lively, Jeeves (1937). He also played a valet or butler in several other films, including Personal Maids, Mister Cinderella, and Bordertown.
In 1961 and 1962, he and William Gaxton starred in Guy Lombardo's production of the musical Paradise Island, which played at the Jones Beach Marine Theater.
In 1962, he replaced Robert Coote as King Pellinore (with over-the-title star billing) in the original Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot (musical)|Camelot]], and he remained with the show through the Chicago engagement and post-Broadway tour that closed in August 1964.
In 1964, Treacher played the role of stuffy English butler Arthur Pinkney in two episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. Pinkney mistakenly believed the hillbillies were the domestic servants of the family he was hired by, while the hillbillies believed Pinkney was a boarder at their Beverly Hills mansion.
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