A list of fictional butlers or related characters:
Butler | Work | Year introduced | Note |
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A | |||
Afanasii Ziukin | The majordomo of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich in The Coronation by Boris Akunin | 2009 | |
Agni | The servant/butler to Prince Soma in the manga Kuroshitsuji ( Black Butler ) | 2007 | |
Akiharu Hino | A student at Hakureiryō Academy, a school for training servants-to-be, in the anime, manga, and light novel, Ladies versus Butlers! | 2006 | |
Brian Albumen | The servant/valet to Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut (Rik Mayall) from the ITV TV series Believe Nothing | 2002 | |
Alfred | Nikolas Cassadine's butler in the TV series General Hospital | 2006 | |
Alfred | Mayflowers' murderous butler in Hudson Hawk movie | 1991 | |
Alfred Pennyworth | Bruce Wayne's butler and father figure in the DC Comics universe | 1943 | |
Alfred | Gex's turtle butler, a parody of Alfred Pennyworth | 1999 | |
Alfredo | Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda | 1999 | |
Andrew | In the film Overboard | 1987 | |
Andrew Martin | A 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 | 1983 | |
Aurthour | Guardian and Butler to Equius Zahhak in Homestuck | ||
B | |||
Banks | Simon Peel's butler in the British sitcom Never the Twain | 1981 | |
Barkley | In the film The Toy | 1982 | |
Barrymore/Barryman | Butler to Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1901 | |
Bates | In Top Hat (1935) | 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 | 1947 | [1] |
Benson DuBois | Butler to the Tates on Soap and household manager to Governor Gatling on the spinoff series Benson | 1977 | |
Thomas Benson | Butler and assistant to Wolf Frankenstein | 1939 | |
Bernard | The Osborns' butler from the Spider-Man film series | 2002 | |
Bertram | The butler to the Ross family in Jessie | 2011 | |
Bill Tremblay | The butler of the Where's Wabi League | ||
Billy Swan | The butler of Bloodstone family in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2022 | |
Edmund Blackadder | The butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third | 1987 | |
Bob | In Bob the Butler | 2005 | |
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 | 1979 | |
Brace | Servant to James Delaney of the historic drama series Taboo | 2017 | |
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 | 1982 | |
Birmingham Brown | Butler/chauffeur of Charlie Chan in the 1940s film serial | 1944 | |
Brunton | Butler to the Musgrave family in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" | 1893 | |
Mervyn Bunter | Valet of Lord Peter Wimsey in several novels and short-stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (see also Batman (military)) | 1923 | |
Domovoi Butler | From the Artemis Fowl novels | 2001 | |
Geoffrey Butler | In the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1990 | |
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 | 2003 | |
The Butler | Butler to No. 2 in The Prisoner | 1967 | |
Butler Livers | Butler from the game Brave Fencer Musashi | 1998 | |
Butterscotch Butler | Prince Gumball's butler, the gender-swapped version of Peppermint Butler in Adventure Time | 2016 | |
Mr. Butlertron | From Clone High | 2002 | |
Butt-ler | Betrayus' butler and the brother of Dr. Buttocks in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures , named for his anus-like forehead. | 2013 | |
C | |||
Charles Carson | Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2010 | |
Cadbury | The Riches' butler who attends to the Rich Estate in the Richie Rich franchise | 1953 | |
Carter | Butler to Sir Wilfrid Robarts in "The Witness for the Prosecution" | 1925 | |
Cavendish | Butler to Sir Hugo Drax in James Bond movie Moonraker | 1979 | |
Chadwick | Butler to Sir Humphrey Pengallan | 1939 | |
Chives | British butler to Louis Stevens in Even Stevens , episode 43, "Gutter Queen" | 2002 | |
Chives | Loyal butler to Raef Halleber from the UK TV series ChuckleVision | 2008 | |
Coleman | From Trading Places | 1983 | |
Collins | Marcus Scarman's ill-fated butler in Doctor Who : Pyramids of Mars | 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 | 2010 | |
Clorica | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
Codsworth | Robotic butler to the Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 | 2015 | |
Cogsworth | Majordomo for the Beast in Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | |
Crichton | Butler to Lord Loam, from J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton | 1902 | |
Cube | From Princess Maker and Petite Princess Yucie | 1993 | |
D | |||
Darach | Butler of later Elite Four member Caitlin in the Pokémon franchise | 2008 | |
Mr. Deeds | A paranormal butler summoned by ringing a silver hand bell (SCP-662). Is in the custody of the SCP Foundation along with his former employer, Lord Blackwood (SCP-1867). | 2009 | [2] [3] |
Desmond | From the Rip Kirby comics | 1946 | |
Didit | Butler in the Clue VCR Mystery Game | 1985 | |
Dobby | House-elf in literary saga of Harry Potter | 1998 | |
Drake | Oliver Warbucks' butler in Annie | ||
Duckworth | Scrooge McDuck's butler/chauffeur on Ducktales (Battista in the Italian comics) | 1987 | |
E | |||
Edgar | Butler to Adelaide Bonfamille in The Aristocats | 1970 | |
8D8 | 8D-series smelter droid that was Jabba the Hutt's chief of Cyborg Operations in Return of the Jedi . Became the majordomo of Boba Fett in The Book of Boba Fett | 1983 | |
Emilio Lopez | Butler to Preston Blake in Mr. Deeds | 2002 | |
English | Butler to Kid Notorious in Kid Notorious | 2003 | |
F | |||
Ferguson | Butler to Frasier Crane in Frasier episode "Taking Liberties" | 2000 | |
Claude Fitzwilliam | Butler to Victoria Woodworth in Fitzwilly | 1967 | |
Fodor | Butler to the Mortevals in Boris Karloff Mexican film House of Evil | 1968 | |
Bib Fortuna | Twi'lek majordomo of Jabba the Hutt, debuted in Return of the Jedi | 1983 | |
Franz | Butler to the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music | 1959 | |
Mr. French | Uncle Bill's butler in the 1960s US sitcom Family Affair | 1966 | |
Frith | Butler to the De Winter family in Rebecca | 1938 | |
G | |||
Genji Ronoue | From Umineko no Naku Koro ni | 2007 | |
Geoffrey Butler | From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1990 | |
George (billed as Manservant) | Manservant to Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict | 1981 | |
George Costanza | Briefly became Frank Costanza's butler in The Handicap Spot due to payment of a wrecked car | 1989 | |
Giles | Ava Jerome's British butler at Wyndemere Castle replacing Alfred during her ownership of Wyndemere Castle on General Hospital | 2023 | |
Giles | From the murder mystery reality-competition series Whodunnit? | 2013 | [4] |
Giovanni Bertuccio | Butler/steward to The Count of Monte Cristo | 1844 | |
Godfrey | Butler to the Bullock family in My Man Godfrey | 1935 | |
Delbert Grady | From Stephen King's The Shining | 1977 | |
Grovely | Butler to Montana Max of Tiny Toon Adventures | 1990 | |
Gudgeon | Butler to the Angkatell family in Agatha Christie's The Hollow | 1946 | |
H | |||
Hargreaves | Butler to Harrison Chase in the Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Doom | 1976 | |
Hayate Ayasaki | From Hayate no Gotoku | 2004 | |
Hawkins | From The Contest Kid and the Big Prize by Barbara Brooks Wallace | 1977 | |
Heathcliff | The butler of Fred and his family from Big Hero 6 | 2014 | |
Hein | Geese Howard's butler in The King of Fighters XIV | 2016 | |
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 | The butler to Count Scarlioni/Scaroth in the Doctor Who story "City of Death" | 1979 | |
Higgins | From the 1951 radio comedy It's Higgins, Sir , recreated as the television show Our Man Higgins in 1962 | 1951 | |
Jonathan Higgins | Majordomo in Magnum, P.I. | 1980 | |
Hillary | The butler of Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | 2001 | |
Robert Hiller | Dorothy's butler in Two's Company | 1975 | |
Hirsh | The butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson | 1981 | |
Hobson | In Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks | 1981 | |
Mr. Homn | Lwaxana Troi's manservant in Star Trek: The Next Generation | 1987 | |
Hovis | From Catscratch | 2005 | |
Angus Hudson | From Upstairs, Downstairs | 1971 | |
I | |||
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 | The butler of the eponymous character in Freakazoid! | 1995 | |
Igor | Butler to Count Duckula (animated series) | 1988 | |
Igor | The hunchbacked assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein | 1974 | |
Ishizaki | Karin Kanzuki's rotund, muscular butler in Street Fighter Alpha 3 | 1998 | |
J | |||
Jack | Butler of businessman Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2 | 2010 | |
Jacob | The unisex butler in all the La Cage Aux Folles films | 1978 | |
Jake | A witch disguised as the Wilhern family's butler in Penelope | 2008 | |
Jakob | The avatar's butler in Fire Emblem Fates | 2015 | |
James | Butler to Miss Sophie in TV sketch Dinner for One | 1963 | |
Jamesir Bensonmum | Blind butler to Lionel Twain in the movie Murder by Death | 1976 | |
James Twelvetrees | The pompous footman from You Rang, M'Lord? | 1988 | |
Edwin Jarvis | From Marvel Comics' Avengers series | 1964 | |
Jeepers | Bob Hope's butler in Paramount's Never Say Die | 1939 | |
Jeeves | A valet to Bertie Wooster 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. | 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 | 1979 | |
Joost | Olivier B. Bommel's loyal butler in the comic series Tom Poes | 1942 | |
Joseph | Butler to Alexander Sebastian in Notorious | 1946 | |
Jenkins | Robot servant of Webster family in City by Clifford D. Simak | 1952 | |
Jenkins | Butler of Daphne Blake in the long-running animated TV series Scooby-Doo | 1989 | |
Jennings | The butler in the 2001 film Gosford Park , directed by Robert Altman | 2001 | |
John Doe AKA Shelly de Killer | From Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All | 2002 | |
K | |||
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) | 1964 | |
Kato | Britt Reid's valet in the Green Hornet | 1936 | |
Karun Patel | The valet of Eternal actor Kingo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | |
Klahadore (real name Kuro) | Nutler to Kaya in the manga One Piece | 1997 | |
Klein Seiben | Nutler to the Schnee family in RWBY. | 2016 | |
Kyrano | Manservant to Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds | 1965 | |
L | |||
Lane | Manservant to Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest | 1895 | |
Lawrence | Doctor Nefarious' butler in the Ratchet & Clank video game series | 2004 | |
Ling Qisa | In Hayate the Combat Butler (TV series) | 2011 | Based on Hayate Ayasaki |
Lucas (or Lucan) | A knight who served as King Arthur's butler in Le Morte d'Arthur | 1485 | |
Lurch | In The Addams Family | 1938 | |
M | |||
Magersfontein Lugg | In the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham | 1930 | |
Martin | From The Parent Trap remake | 1998 | |
Max von Mayerling | Butler and former husband to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | |
Max | From Cats Don't Dance ; a parody of Max von Mayerling. | 1997 | |
Max | From the TV show Hart to Hart | 1979 | |
Merriman | Butler to John Worthing in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest | 1895 | |
Merry | Butler to Kaya in the manga One Piece | 1997 | |
Meadows | From Chuck Jones' animated short The Aristo-Cat | 1943 | |
Meadows | Butler to the Stanley family from The Pirate Movie | 1982 | |
N | |||
Nestor | Captain Haddock's butler at Marlinspike Hall, in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin | 1943 | |
Mr. Nettlebed | From Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home | 1995 | |
Nick Nack | Butler to Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | |
Niles | In The Nanny | 1993 | |
Nimrod | Neanderthal butler in the Doctor Who tale Ghost Light | 1989 | |
Norman Burg | Roger Smith's butler in anime television series The Big O | 1999 | |
O | |||
Orto K. Gotchi | Dudley's butler in Street Fighter III | 1997 | |
P | |||
Aloysius Parker | Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds | 1965 | |
Passepartout | The valet to Mr. Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | 1873 | |
Paul Moriyama | Momoka Nishizawa's butler in Sgt. Frog | 1999 | |
Peppermint Butler | Princess Bubblegum's butler in Adventure Time | 2010 | |
Mr. Pitcher | Butler to Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden | 1910 | |
Pfister | Butler in Haunted Honeymoon | 1986 | |
Plimpton | Butler to Dr. Wilfred Glendon in Werewolf of London | 1935 | |
Poole | Butler to Dr. Henry Jekyll in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | 1886 | |
Pork | Butler and valet to Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind | 1936 | |
Praiseworthy | Jeeves-like butler in the children's novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman | 1963 | |
R | |||
Oeznik | The butler of the Zemo House in Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | |
Ramsley | From The Haunted Mansion | 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 | 2005 | |
Raymond | Butler and valet to Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane | 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 | 1973 | |
Riffael Raffit | Butler to Earl Cain | 1991 | |
Rihito Shibata | Mei Shinonome's butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji | 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 | 1939 | |
Rowen J. Ilbert | Butler for the Sharil family in the video game Tales of Xillia | 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 | 1914 | |
Ruthven | Butler to Melrose Plant in the Richard Jury detective series written by Martha Grimes (pronounced Rivven) | 1981 | |
S | |||
Sam | Butler and best friend to Rick Blaine in Casablanca | 1942 | |
Sam | Butler to the Amberson family in The Magnificent Ambersons | 1918 | |
Samwise Gamgee | Gardener, companion, and manservant to Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings | 1954 | |
Saturnin | Butler/servant in Zdenek Jirotka's eponymous novell and eponymous film | 1942 | |
Sandor | Butler/servant to Countess Marya Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter | 1936 | |
Saunders | The butler who replaced Benson DuBois on Soap | 1980 | |
Sebastian | Lili's butler in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection | 2005 | |
Sebastian Michaelis | Butler to Ciel Phantomhive in the manga Kuroshitsuji | 2006 | |
Seecombe | Butler to the Ambrose family in My Cousin Rachel | 1951 | |
Shakelford | From Justice Squad and The Critic | ||
Shinobu | Shiori Hongo's Butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji | 2006 | |
Charlie Silversmith | Butler of Deverill Hall in The Mating Season | 1949 | |
Simonides | Butler to Judah Ben-Hur | 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 | 1989 | |
Agador Spartacus | Butler in The Birdcage | 1996 | |
Spencer | The Hartfords' butler in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive ; he is also one of the Rangers' mentors along with Andrew Hartford | 2007 | |
Septimus Spratt | The butler to Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2013 | |
Standish | Butler to T. Herman Zweibel, editor of The Onion | ||
Stephen Warren | Butler to the Calvin Candie in Django Unchained | 2011 | |
Stevens | In Remains of the Day | 1989 | |
Alf Stokes | Butler to the Meldrum family in You Rang, M'Lord? | 1988 | |
Subaru Konoe | The female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel | 2009 | |
T | |||
Tanaka | The former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Black Butler . | 2006 | |
Thomas | Butler to the Lord family in The Philadelphia Story | 1939 | |
Thomas Barrow | Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2015 | |
V | |||
Valkenhayn R. Hellsing | The butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series | 2008 | |
Various members of the Igor family | In the Discworld novels | 1998 | |
Vishnal | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
Volkanon | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
W | |||
Wadsworth | In the movie Clue | 1985 | |
Wadsworth | The robotic butler to the Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3 . | 2008 | |
Walter C. Dornez | From the manga Hellsing (and subsequent anime) by Kouta Hirano | 1997 | |
Wallace | The Ridgemeres' butler in the Only Fools and Horses episode "A Touch of Glass" | 1982 | |
Wilkins | Butler to Mr. and Mrs. Topper in Topper | 1926 | |
Willikins | Samuel Vimes' butler in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett | 1993 | |
Winston | The Foxworths' butler and chauffeur from Oliver & Company | 1988 | |
Winston | The Griplings' butler and chauffeur from As Told By Ginger | 2000 | |
Winston "Jeeves" Smith | Butler of Lara Croft in the video game series Tomb Raider | 1997 | |
Winter | Butler to Sam Flusky in Under Capricorn | 1937 | |
Wintergreen | Slade Wilson's butler and confidant in the DC Comics universe | 1980 | |
Woodhouse | Sterling Archer's mistreated valet in the comedy series Archer , who formerly worked for Mallory Archer. | 2009 | |
Wong | Valet, bodyguard, and servant to Doctor Strange in the Marvel Comics universe. | 1963 | |
Y | |||
You There | Butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking" | 2000 | |
Z | |||
Zazu | The majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King | 1994 |