List of fictional butlers

A list of fictional butlers or related characters:

Butler	Work	Actor(s) / Voice Actor(s)	Year introduced	Note
Afanasii Ziukin	majordomo of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich in The Coronation by Boris Akunin		2009
Agni	servant/butler to Prince Soma in the manga Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)	Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)	2007
Akiharu Hino	not technically a butler but studies at Hakureiryō Academy, a school for training servants-to-be, in the anime, manga, and light novel, Ladies versus Butlers!	Kazuyuki Okitsu	2006
Brian Albumen	faithful servant/valet to Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut (Rik Mayall) from the ITV TV series Believe Nothing	Michael Maloney	2002
Alfred	Nikolas Cassadine's butler in the TV series General Hospital	Jack Donner	2006
Alfred	Mayflowers' murderous butler in Hudson Hawk movie	Donald Burton	1991
Alfred Pennyworth	Bruce Wayne's butler and father figure in the Batman universe	various	1943
Alfredo	Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda		1999
Andrew	in the film Overboard	Roddy McDowall	1987
Andrew Martin	robotic/android butler in Isaac Asimov's novella The Bicentennial Man and the film based on it		1976
Archer	Samuel and Elizabeth Daily's butler in The Woman In Black	John R. Walker	1983
Aurthour	Guardian and Butler to Equius Zahhak in Homestuck	Andrew Hussie
Banks	Simon Peel's butler in the British sitcom Never the Twain	Teddy Turner	1981
Barkley	in the film The Toy	Wilfrid Hyde-White	1982
Barrymore/Barryman	Butler to Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles	Fritz Rasp, John Carradine, Ewen Solon, Max Wall, Morris Perry, Ronald Pickup, Ron Cook	1901
Bates	in Top Hat (1935)	Eric Blore	1935
Bautista	in Rigoberto Picaporte
Sebastian Beach	Lord Emsworth's butler at Blandings Castle, from the works of P. G. Wodehouse		1915
Beeker	from the Phule novels by Robert Asprin		1990
Lynn Belvedere	from the novel Belvedere, the adapted feature film and its sequels, and the TV series Mr. Belvedere	Clifton Webb, Christopher Hewett	1947	[1]
Benson DuBois	butler to the Tates on Soap and household manager to Governor Gatling on the spinoff series Benson	Robert Guillaume	1977
Thomas Benson	Butler and assistant to Wolf Frankenstein	Edgar Norton	1939
Bernard	The Osborns' butler from the Spider-Man movies	John Paxton	2002	[2]
Bertram	butler to the Ross family in Jessie	Kevin Chamberlin	2011
Bill Tremblay	butler of the Where's Wabi League	White Glove specialist
Edmund Blackadder	butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third	Rowan Atkinson	1987
Bob	in Bob the Butler	Tom Green	2005
Mr. Boo	butler to Uncle Basti in the kensington reptilarium
Bootler	butler to Lady Bow from the video game Paper Mario		2000
Brabinger	family retainer of the fforbes-Hamiltons from the BBC TV series To the Manor Born	John Rudling	1979
Brackett	butler to Lord Belborough of the children's television show Chigley		1969
Fritz Brenner	Nero Wolfe's servant		1934
Brewster	the Cranleighs’ butler in Doctor Who – Black Orchid	Brian Hawksley	1982
Birmingham Brown	butler/chauffeur of Charlie Chan in the 1940s film serial	Mantan Moreland	1944
Brunton	butler to the Musgrave family in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"	James Hazeldine, Brian Jackson, David Bannerman, Clifton Boyne	1893
Mervyn Bunter	valet of Lord Peter Wimsey in several novels and short-stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (see also Batman (military))	Glyn Houston, Richard Morant, Derek Newark, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Ronald Adam, Seymour Hicks, Aubrey Mather	1923
Domovoi Butler	from the Artemis Fowl novels		2001
Juliet Butler	from the Artemis Fowl novels		2001
The Butler	in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, a holographic butler that Jimmy makes, later destroyed when Jimmy's dad removes the power pack, causing an explosion	Corey Burton	2003
The Butler	butler to No. 2 in The Prisoner	Angelo Muscat	1967
Butler Livers	butler from the game Brave Fencer Musashi	R. Martin Klein	1998
Mr. Butlertron	from Clone High	Chris Miller	2002	[3]
Charles Carson	Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey	Jim Carter	2010
Cadbury	the Riches' butler who attends to the Rich Estate in the Richie Rich comic book series, cartoon TV shows, and 1994 live action movie	Stan Jones, Jonathan Hyde, Martin Jarvis	1953
Carter	Butler to Sir Wilfrid Robarts in "The Witness for the Prosecution"	Ian Wolfe, Peter Sallis	1925
Cavendish	Butler to Sir Hugo Drax in James Bond movie Moonraker	Arthur Howard	1979
Chadwick	Butler to Sir Humphrey Pengallan	Horace Hodges	1939
Chives	British butler to Louis Stevens in Even Stevens, episode 43, "Gutter Queen"	Daniel Faltus	2002
Chives	loyal butler to Raef Halleber (formerly Julian Halleber) from the UK TV series ChuckleVision	David Yip	2008
Coleman	from Trading Places	Denholm Elliott	1983
Collins	Marcus Scarman's ill-fated butler in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars	Michael Bilton	1975
Chunjin	undercover Communist valet to Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate		1959
Claude Faustus	butler for Alois Trancy of the Trancy Household in Kuroshitsuji II	Jason Douglas	2010
Clorica	butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4	Heather Hogan (English), Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese)	2012
Cogsworth	Majordomo for the Beast in Beauty and the Beast	David Ogden Stiers	1991
Crichton	butler to Lord Loam, from J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton		1902
Cube	from Princess Maker and Petite Princess Yucie	Tomo Saeki (Japanese), Josh Meyer (English)	1993
Darach	butler of later Elite Four member Caitlin in the Pokémon franchise		2008
Desmond	from the Rip Kirby comics		1946
Didit	butler in the Clue VCR game		1985
Drake	Oliver Warbucks' butler in Annie
Duckworth	Scrooge McDuck's butler/chauffeur on Ducktales (Battista in the Italian comics)	Chuck McCann	1987
Edgar	butler to retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in The Aristocats	Roddy Maude-Roxby	1970
English	butler to Kid Notorious in Kid Notorious	Alan Selka	2003
Emilio Lopez	butler to Preston Blake in Mr. Deeds	John Turturro	2002
Ferguson	butler to Frasier Crane in Frasier episode "Taking Liberties"	Victor Garber	2000
Claude Fitzwilliam	butler to Victoria Woodworth in Fitzwilly	Dick Van Dyke	1967
Fodor	butler to the Mortevals in Boris Karloff Mexican film House of Evil	José Luis G. de León	1968
Franz	butler to the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music	Gil Stuart	1959
Mr. French	Uncle Bill's butler in the 1960s US sitcom Family Affair	Sebastian Cabot	1966
Frith	Butler to the De Winter family in Rebecca	Edward Fielding, Hugh Morton, John Horsley	1938
Genji Ronoue	from Umineko no Naku Koro ni		2007
Geoffrey Butler	from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Joseph Marcell also plays the recurring role of Massimo Marone's butler on The Bold and the Beautiful, who used to work for a family in Beverly Hills, a reference to his role on Fresh Prince)	Joseph Marcell	1990
George (billed as Manservant)	manservant to Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict	Hugh Moxey	1981
George Costanza	briefly became Frank Costanza's butler in The Handicap Spot due to payment of a wrecked car	Jason Alexander	1989
Giles	from the murder mystery reality-competition series Whodunnit?	Gildart Jackson	2013	[4]
Giovanni Bertuccio	butler/steward to The Count of Monte Cristo	Sergio Rubini, Dominic Barto, Paul Le Person, Paolo Stoppa, Marcel Herrand	1844
Godfrey	butler to the Bullock family in My Man Godfrey	William Powell, David Niven	1935
Delbert Grady	from Stephen King's The Shining	Philip Stone, Stanley Anderson	1977
Grovely	butler to Montana Max of Tiny Toon Adventures		1990
Gudgeon	butler to the Angkatell family in Agatha Christie's The Hollow	Edward Fox (TV film), A. J. Brown (1951 London theatre production)	1946
Hargreaves	butler to Harrison Chase in the Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Doom	Seymour Green	1976
Hayate Ayasaki	from Hayate no Gotoku	Ryōko Shiraishi	2004
Heathcliff	from Big Hero 6	David Shaughnessy	2014
Heinz	the Matthews' Chinese butler in Daniel Pinkwater's The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, a false identity used alternately by Wallace and Heinrich Nussbaum, or possibly just a butler who uses the Nussbaums as false identities		1982
Herbert	from Justice Squad			[5]
Hermann	butler to Count Scarlioni/Scaroth in the Doctor Who story "City of Death"	Kevin Flood	1979
Higgins	from the 1951 radio comedy It's Higgins, Sir, recreated as the television show Our Man Higgins in 1962	Harry McNaughton, Stanley Holloway	1951
Jonathan Higgins	majordomo in Magnum, P.I.	John Hillerman	1980
Hillary	butler for Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Chris Barrie	2001
Robert Hiller	Dorothy's butler in Two's Company	Donald Sinden	1975
Hirsh	butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson	Ian Wolfe	1981
Hobson	in Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks	John Gielgud	1981
Mr. Homn	Lwaxana Troi's manservant in Star Trek: The Next Generation	Carel Struycken	1987
Hovis	from Catscratch	Maurice LaMarche	2005
Angus Hudson	from Upstairs, Downstairs	Gordon Jackson	1971
Ianto Jones	from Torchwood (while his role could be considered General Support, he considers that the services he provides make him "like a butler")		2006
Ingmar	Freakazoid's mute butler		1995
Igor	butler to Count Duckula (animated series)	Jack May	1988
Igor	The hunchbacked assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein	Marty Feldman	1974
Ishizaki	Karin Kanzuki's rotund, muscular butler in Street Fighter Alpha 3		1998
Jacob	the unisex butler in all the La Cage Aux Folles films	Benny Luke	1978
Jake	witch disguised as the Wilhern family's butler in Penelope	Michael Feast	2008
Jakob	the avatar's butler in Fire Emblem Fates	Benjamin Diskin, Junichi Suwabe	2015
James	butler to Miss Sophie in TV sketch Dinner for One	Freddie Frinton	1963
Jamesir Bensonmum	blind butler to Lionel Twain in the movie Murder by Death	Alec Guinness	1976
Edwin Jarvis	from Marvel Comics' Avengers series		1964
Jeepers	Bob Hope's butler in Paramount's Never Say Die	Ernest Cossart	1939
Jeeves	technically a valet to Bertie Wooster rather than a butler, from the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, adapted for UK television as Jeeves and Wooster, and inspiration for the name of the Internet search engine known as Ask Jeeves.com.	Michael Hordern, Andrew Sachs, Dennis Price, Stephen Fry	1915
Jeeves	the Colonel's butler from the adventure game Colonel's Bequest		1989
Jeeves	robotic butler (and former warbot) from the Liaden Universe novels		1989
Jodot	the count's butler and chief assassin from Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro	Ichirō Nagai (Japanese), Jeff Winkless, Milton James (English)	1979
Joost	Olivier B. Bommel's loyal butler in the comic series Tom Poes		1942
Jorge Campos	featured in Sensitive Butlers IV
Joseph	Butler to Alexander Sebastian in Notorious	Alexis Minotis, Ronald Guttman	1946
Jenkins	Butler of Daphne Blake in the long-running animated TV series Scooby-Doo	Don Messick	1989
Jennings	the butler in the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman	Alan Bates	2001
John Doe AKA Shelly de Killer	from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All		2002
Cato (or "Kato")	Inspector Clouseau's butler and sparring partner from the original Pink Panther franchise; spelled with a "k" in A Shot in the Dark (1964)	Burt Kwouk	1964
Kato	Britt Reid's valet in the Green Hornet	Raymond Toyo, Rollon Parker, Michael Tolan, Keye Luke, Bruce Lee, Jay Chou	1936
Kyrano	manservant to Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds	David Graham (TV series), Bhasker Patel (film)	1965
Lane	manservant to Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest	Richard Wordsworth, John Turnbull, Munson Hicks, Walter Hudd, John Woodnutt, Michael Hordern, Edward Fox, Neil Dickson, Paul O'Brien	1895
Lawrence	Doctor Nefarious' butler in the Ratchet & Clank videogame series	Michael Bell	2004
Lucas (or Lucan)	a knight who served as King Arthur's butler in Le Morte d'Arthur		1485
Lurch	in The Addams Family	Ted Cassidy, Carel Struycken	1938
Magersfontein Lugg	in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham	Wally Patch, Brian Glover	1930
Martin	from The Parent Trap remake	Simon Kunz	1998
Max von Mayerling	Butler and former husband to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard	Erich von Stroheim, Walter Kohler, Fred Johanson	1950
Max	(a parody of Max von Mayerling) from Cats Don't Dance	Mark Dindal	1997
Max	from the TV show Hart to Hart	Lionel Stander	1979
Merriman	butler to John Worthing in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest	Stringer Davis, Aubrey Mather, Roger Delgado, Thomas Ruisinger, John Quarmby, Patrick Godfrey, Neil Dickson, Tim MacDonald	1895
Meadows	from Chuck Jones' animated short The Aristo-Cat	Mel Blanc	1943
Meadows	butler to the Stanley family from The Pirate Movie	Clive Hearne	1982
Nestor	Captain Haddock's butler at Marlinspike Hall, in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin	Vernon Chapman (cartoon series), Enn Reitel (film)	1943
Mr. Nettlebed	from Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home		1995
Nick Nack	butler to Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun	Herve Villechaize	1974
Niles	in The Nanny	Daniel Davis	1993
Nimrod	Neanderthal butler in the Doctor Who tale Ghost Light	Carl Forgione	1989
Norman Burg	Roger Smith's butler in anime television series The Big O	Milton James	1999
Orto K. Gotchi	Dudley's butler in Street Fighter III		1997
Aloysius Parker	Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds	David Graham and Ron Cook	1965
Passepartout	personal valet to Mr. Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne	Eugen Rex, Cantinflas, Eric Idle, Jackie Chan	1873
Paul Moriyama	Momoka Nishizawa's butler in Sgt. Frog		1999
Peppermint Butler	Princess Bubblegum's butler in Adventure Time	Steve Little	2010
Mr. Pitcher	Butler to Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden	Dennis Hoey, Basil Clarke, Philip Locke	1910
Pfister	Butler in Haunted Honeymoon	Bryan Pringle	1986
Plimpton	Butler to Dr. Wilfred Glendon in Werewolf of London	Joseph North	1935
Poole	Butler to Dr. Henry Jekyll in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	George Stevens, Edgar Norton, Peter Godfrey, Gillie Fenwick, Stanley Holloway, Roland Curram, Frank Barrie, Donald Grody, Peter Johl, James Judy, Arnold Pinnock, Brian Pettifer	1886
Pork	Butler and valet to Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind	Oscar Polk	1936
Praiseworthy	Jeeves-like butler in the children's novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman		1963
Ramsley	from The Haunted Mansion	Terence Stamp	2003
Raunce	succeeds to the position from footman when Eldon the Butler dies, in the novel Loving by Henry Green		1945
Randolph	The Cleary's Butler from Wedding Crashers	Ron Canada	2005
Raymond	Butler and valet to Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane	Paul Stewart	1941
Reginald	The Quartermaine family's former butler in the TV series General Hospital		1992
Riff-Raff	Butler and handyman to Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and the film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show	Richard O'Brien, Raul Esparza, Sebastian Bach, Mark Price, Jason Wooten	1973
Riffael Raffit	Butler to Earl Cain		1991
Riffael Valentine	Butler for Lucien Ebanezer of the Ebanezer Household in Kuroshitsuji III fanmade
Rihito Shibata	Mei Shinonome's Butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji	Hiro Mizushima (live action)	2006
Rochester	butler to Jack Benny on the Jack Benny Show		1937
Rogers	husband of Ethel Rogers and suspect in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None	Richard Haydn, Paul L. Smith	1939
Rowen J. Ilbert	Butler for the Sharil family in the video game Tales of Xillia	Mugihito Terada (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English)	2011
Marmaduke Ruggles	in Harry Leon Wilson's Ruggles of Red Gap and its adaptations, "lost" by the English Earl of Burnstead to Egbert Floud in a poker game in Paris and moved to the frontier town of Red Gap, Washington	Taylor Holmes, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Laughton	1914
Ruthven	Butler to Melrose Plant in the Richard Jury detective series written by Martha Grimes (pronounced Rivven)		1981
Sam	Butler and best friend to Rick Blaine in Casablanca	Dooley Wilson, Clarence Muse, Scatman Crothers	1942
Sam	Butler to the Amberson family in The Magnificent Ambersons	J. Louis Johnson, Eamon Rohan	1918
Samwise Gamgee	Gardener, companion, and manservant to Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings	Sean Astin (live action), Roddy McDowall (animated version of Return of the King), Michael Scholes (animated version of Lord of the Rings)	1954
Saturnin	Butler/servant in Zdenek Jirotka's eponymous novell and eponymous film	Oldřich Vízner	1942
Sandor	Butler/servant to Countess Marya Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter	Irving Pichel	1936
Saunders	the butler who replaced Benson DuBois on Soap	Roscoe Lee Browne	1980
Sebastian	Lili's butler in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection		2005
Sebastian Michaelis	butler to Ciel Phantomhive in the manga Kuroshitsuji	Daisuke Ono (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English), Hiro Mizushima (Live action)	2006
Seecombe	Butler to the Ambrose family in My Cousin Rachel	Tudor Owen, Bert Parnaby, Tim Barlow	1951
Shakelford	from Justice Squad and The Critic
Shinobu	Shiori Hongo's Butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji	Osamu Mukai (live action)	2006
Charlie Silversmith	butler of Deverill Hall in The Mating Season		1949
Simonides	Butler to Judah Ben-Hur	Nigel De Brulier, Sam Jaffe, Simón Andreu, Haluk Bilginer	1880
Smethells	steward for the player in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time		1996
Smithers	Veronica Lodge's butler in the Archie comics		1957
Waylon Smithers	assistant to Mr Burns from The Simpsons	Harry Shearer	1989
Agador Spartacus	butler in The Birdcage	Hank Azaria	1996
Spencer	the Hartfords' butler in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive		2007
Septimus Spratt	butler to Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the ITV series Downton Abbey	Jeremy Swift	2013
Standish	butler to T. Herman Zweibel, editor of The Onion
Stevens	in Remains of the Day	Anthony Hopkins	1989
Alf Stokes	Butler to the Meldrum family in You Rang, M'Lord?	Paul Shane	1988
Subaru Konoe	female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel	Yuka Iguchi	2009
Tanaka	former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Kuroshitsuji.		2006
Thomas	Butler to the Lord family in The Philadelphia Story	Rex Evans, Richard Garrick	1939
Valkenhayn R. Hellsing	butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series	Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), Doug Stone (English)	2008
various members of the Igor family	in the Discworld novels		1998
Vishnal	butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4	Vic Mignogna (English), Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese)	2012
Volkanon	butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4	Patrick Seitz (English), Yukitoshi Hori (Japanese)	2012
Wadsworth	in the movie Clue	Tim Curry	1985
Walter C. Dornez	from the manga Hellsing (and subsequent anime) by Kouta Hirano	Motomu Kiyokawa, Romi Park (young)	1997
Wallace	the Ridgemeres’ butler in the Only Fools and Horses episode "A Touch of Glass"	Donald Bisset	1982
Wilkins	Butler to Mr. and Mrs. Topper in Topper	Alan Mowbray	1926
Willikins	Samuel Vimes' butler in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett		1993
Winston	from Oliver & Company		1988
Winston	the Griplings’ butler and chauffeur from As Told By Ginger	John Kassir	2000
Winston "Jeeves" Smith	butler of Lara Croft in the video game series Tomb Raider		1997
Winter	Butler to Sam Flusky in Under Capricorn	Jack Watling, Jim Holt	1937
Wintergreen	Slade's butler in Teen Titans		1980
Woodhouse	Sterling Archer's mistreated butler (technically a valet) in the comedy series Archer, who formerly worked for Mallory Archer.	George Coe	2009
Wong	from Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange series		1963
You There	butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking"		2000
Zazu	not technically a butler, but he serves as majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King	Rowan Atkinson	1994

See also

• List of famous fictional valets

References

1. Belvedere
2. John Paxton
3. Chris Miller
4. "Giles". ABC. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
5. Justice Squad