List of fictional butlers
A list of fictional butlers or related characters:
Butler | Work | Year introduced | Note |
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A | |||
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 | |
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 | ||
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 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] |
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 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 | |
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 | [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 | |
E | |||
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 | |
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 (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 | 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 | |
H | |||
Hargreaves | butler to Harrison Chase in the Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Doom | 1976 | |
Hayate Ayasaki | from Hayate no Gotoku | 2004 | |
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 | |
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 | 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 | |
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 | 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 | |
Jorge Campos | featured in Sensitive Butlers IV | ||
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 | personal valet of Eternal actor Kingo in Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | |
Klein Seiben | butler 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 videogame series | 2004 | |
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 | (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 | |
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 | 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 | |
R | |||
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 | |
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 | 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 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 | |
T | |||
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 | |
V | |||
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 | |
W | |||
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 | 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 | |
Y | |||
You There | butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking" | 2000 | |
Z | |||
Zazu | not technically a butler, but hered-billed hornbill serves as majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King | 1994 |
See also
References
- Belvedere
- John Paxton
- Chris Miller
- Rick Revelry (30 May 2009). "SCP-662 - Butler's Hand Bell". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- Djoric (26 May 2012). "SCP-1867 - A Gentleman". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- "Giles". ABC. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- Justice Squad
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