Born into a Sussex solicitor’s family and educated at Uppingham School, Treacher served as a Royal Garrison Artillery officer in World War I before turning to the stage, where a 1926 New York revue marked his transatlantic debut. He entered film with Paramount’s The Battle of Paris (1929) and soon became typecast as an aristocratic English servant, portraying Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) an…
