Arthur Treacher
Born Arthur Veary Treacher in Brighton, East Sussex, England, he was the son of a lawyer. He established a stage career after returning from World War I, and by 1928, he had come to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. When his film career began in the early 1930s, Treacher was Hollywood's idea of the perfect butler, and he headlined as the famous butler Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) and Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)--based on the P.G. Wodehouse character. He played a butler in numerous other films including: Personal Maid's Secret (1935), Mister Cinderella (1936), Bordertown (1935), and Curly Top (1935). By the mid 1960s, Treacher was a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show (1962). The image of the proper Englishman served him well, and during his later years, he lent his name to a fast-food chain known as Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips.
Arthur Vercken
Arthur Vercken is known for Héros (2007), Maryland (2015) and Passion Simple (2020).
Arthur Vincie
Arthur is an experienced and award-winning writer, producer and director. He recently wrote and directed the dramatic webseries Three Trembling Cities (2016), which is available on 10 streaming platforms and has screened at 30 festivals and special events across the globe, winning 7 awards to date, including Best Drama at the UK Webfest and Minnesota Webfest, and the Made in NY award at the Brooklyn Webfest. He also wrote and directed the sci-fi feature Found in Time (2012), which is now available on Amazon, Vudu, and other platforms. It won the Best Feature award at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, the Best Sci-Fi Feature awards at Shriekfest, ShockerFest, Phoenix Comic-Con and Intendence, and was an official selection at 25 festivals, including the Boston Sci-Fi, Nevermore, International Horror & Sci-Fi, Imagine Fantastic (Netherlands), Louisville International, and GenCon. Focal Press publishes his non-fiction book on preproduction, "Preparing For Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker." He's written filmmaking articles for several online and print publications, including "MovieMaker," "Indie Slate," Stareble, ProVideo Coalition, and Mixform. He's developing an indie supernatural thriller, "Bitter Child," a supernatural/war tv series, "Highway of Bones," and the action-drama "Die Hunter" (co-written with Arthur Scott Jr.). Caleb's Door (2009) his first feature, is available on DVD and VOD. Arthur's shorts The Prayer Tree (2009), Matter (2009), "Mornir/Mornen" and "Secret Language" have screened at various festivals and art venues, in New York, Texas, LA, and in Europe. Arthur is the founder of Chaotic Sequence Inc., which focuses on production, consultation, and film education. To date the company has production managed several shorts, seminars, and other projects, as well as Found in Time (2012) and Three Trembling Cities (2016). Arthur has also line produced or production managed several features, including Helena from the Wedding (2010); Goodbye Baby (2007); _Windows (2006)_ qv; Rock the Paint (2005); The Toe Tactic (2008)Racing Daylight (2007) starring David Strathairn and Melissa Leo. These films have screened at the Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, Nantucket, Rome, Woodstock, and other film festivals, and have gone on to theatrical, DVD, cable and VOD distribution. Arthur has also line produced second-unit shoots, industrials, music videos, and shorts. Arthur has also worked in just about every department, for ABC, NBC, BBC America, MSNBC, the Knitting Factory, Nickelodeon, and various independent production companies. Arthur has guest lectured at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, CUNY/Hunter College, University of Advancing Technology, Brooklyn College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Digital Film Academy, and Montclair State University. He holds a B.F.A. in Film/Television Production from NYU.
Arthur Vinciprova
Arthur Vinciprova was born on March 5, 1985 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a writer and actor, known for Rúcula com Tomate Seco (2017), A Gruta (2020) and Aquela Menina (2018).
Arthur W. Forney
Arthur W. Forney is known for Law & Order (1990), Altered States (1980) and Chicago P.D. (2014).
Arthur W. Moore
Arthur W. Moore is known for From the Shadows (2022), Abiding (2022) and August Falls (2017).
Arthur West Payne
Arthur West Payne is an actor, known for The Ticket of Leave Man (1937) and Bardell Against Pickwick (1938).
Arthur Williams Jr.
Arthur Williams Jr. is known for Who's Watching Us, Killer Zaddy (2023) and Bissonnet (2023).
Arthur Wong
Arthur Wong is an actor, known for Jackson County Jail (1976), One Spy Too Many (1966) and Noon Sunday (1970).
Arthur Wontner
Arthur Wontner (1875-1960), the critics' choice. "No better "Sherlock Holmes" than Arthur Wontner is likely to be seen and heard in pictures, in our time... The keen, worn, kindly face and quiet prescient smile are out of the very pages of the book", Vincent Starrett's 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'. Arthur Wontner made his first stage appearance in 1897 and his first film 18 years later. Best-known today for his characterization of "Sherlock Holmes" in five films produced between 1931 and 1938, some Holmes aficionados prefer Wontner's studious interpretation to the more aggressive, energetic portrayals of Basil Rathbone. Ironically, Wontner landed the role on the strength of his performance in the 1930 stage production, Sexton Blake, based on a pulp-fiction character who'd been created as a Sherlock Holmes imitation. In later years, he played several small but memorable character roles, such as the elderly automobile fancier in Genevieve (1953). Wontner was fifty-six when he made his first Sherlock Holmes film, "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour" (actually called The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) in England). The story was based on "The Final Problem", but with some liberal rearranging. Norman McKinnel played "Moriarty" in this movie but would be replaced by Lyn Harding ("Dr. Grimesby Roylott" in Doyle's play, "The Speckled Band") for the others in the series. "The Missing Rembrandt" (based on "Charles Augustus Milverton") and "The Sign of Four" would be the next two films with Wonter. For the final two, he would be pitted against "Professor Moriarty". The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) was from "The Valley of Fear", and last up was Silver Blaze (1937). Apparently, the studio had difficulty in making the short story fill out to a feature-length film, as both "Moriarty" and "Henry Baskerville" are added to the movie. Strangely enough, though made in 1937, it wasn't released in the U.S. until 1941, when Basil Rathbone had already made The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939). To cash in on the success of that film, Wontner's movie was retitled "Murder at the Baskervilles". Two actors played "Watson": Ian Hunter in The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) and Ian Fleming, an Australian actor, who played "Watson" as "nice but dim". Of the five Holmes movies Wontner made, three were for Twickenham Studios, a low-budget production company. "Silver Blaze" and "The Sign of Four" were made by ARP. However, one of the films, The Missing Rembrandt (1932), is lost. The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) was unobtainable for decades, but it turned up on an American video dealer's list and was shown at the annual film evening in November 2000. It was very appropriate because it was first shown to the Society by Tony Howlett at the very first film evening in 1951, when Arthur Wontner, himself, was present. The Society has the other three movies on film, "The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes", "Silver Blaze" and "The Sign of Four". (This biography is used with the kind permission of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.)