Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. (/ˈtriːtʃər/ 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).

After the war, he established an acting career in England, and in March 1926 went to New York as part of a musical-comedy revue named Great Temptations.

[citation needed] He began his movie career in 1929, in the Paramount Pictures feature The Battle of Paris (filmed in New York and released in November 1930).

[3]) Treacher played a valet or butler in several other movies, including Personal Maid's Secret, Mr. Cinderella, Bordertown, and In Society.

[5] He also appeared as a guest commentator on the NBC network's hot-jazz radio series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street.

During 1961 and 1962, he and William Gaxton appeared in Guy Lombardo's production of the musical revue Paradise Island, which played at the Jones Beach Marine Theater.

[6][7] In 1962, he replaced Robert Coote as King Pellinore (with over-the-title name billing) in the original Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's musical play Camelot, and he remained with the show through the Chicago engagement and post-Broadway tour that ended during August 1964.