List of fictional butlers

A list of fictional butlers or related characters:

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
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• X
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• Z

• See also
• References

Butler	Work	Year introduced	Note
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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 )	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!	2006
Brian Albumen	faithful 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 Batman universe	1943
Alfred	Gex's turtle butler, a parody of Pennyworth	1999
Alfredo	Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda	1999
Andrew	in the film Overboard	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	1983
Aurthour	Guardian and Butler to Equius Zahhak in Homestuck
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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 movies	2002	[2]
Bertram	butler to the Ross family in Jessie	2011
Bill Tremblay	butler of the Where's Wabi League
Billy Swan	butler of Bloodstone family in Marvel Cinematic Universe	2022
Edmund Blackadder	butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third	1987
Bob	in Bob the Butler	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	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	[3]
Butt-ler	Betrayus' butler and the brother of Dr. Buttocks in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures , named for his anus-like forehead.	2013
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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 comic book series, cartoon TV shows, and 1994 live action movie	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 (formerly Julian 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
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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	[4] [5]
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
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Edgar	butler to retired opera diva Madame 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
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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
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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)	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	[6]
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
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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	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		[7]
Hermann	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	butler for 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	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
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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)	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
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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	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	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.	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
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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	personal valet of Eternal actor Kingo in Marvel Cinematic Universe	2021
Klahadore (real name Kuro)	butler to Kaya in the manga One Piece	1997
Klein Seiben	butler to the Schnee family in RWBY.	2016
Kyrano	manservant to Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds	1965
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Lane	manservant to Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest	1895
Lawrence	Doctor Nefarious' butler in the Ratchet & Clank videogame 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
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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	(a parody of Max von Mayerling) from Cats Don't Dance	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
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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
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Orto K. Gotchi	Dudley's butler in Street Fighter III	1997
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Aloysius Parker	Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds	1965
Passepartout	personal 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
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Oeznik	Sokovian 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
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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 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	2007
Septimus Spratt	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	female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel	2009
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Tanaka	former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Kuroshitsuji.	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
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Valkenhayn R. Hellsing	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
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Wadsworth	in the movie Clue	1985
Wadsworth	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'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.	2009
Wong	from Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange series	1963
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You There	butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking"	2000
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Zazu	not technically a butler, but hered-billed hornbill serves as majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King	1994

See also

• List of famous fictional valets

References

1. Belvedere
2. John Paxton
3. Chris Miller
4. Rick Revelry (30 May 2009). "SCP-662 - Butler's Hand Bell". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
5. Djoric (26 May 2012). "SCP-1867 - A Gentleman". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
6. "Giles". ABC. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
7. Justice Squad