| Butler |
Work |
Actor(s) / Voice Actor(s) |
Note |
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| Afanasii Ziukin | majordomo of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich in The Coronation by Boris Akunin | | |
| Agador Spartacus | butler in The Birdcage | Hank Azaria | |
| Agni | servant/butler to Prince Soma in the manga Kuroshitsuji | Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English) | |
| 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 | |
| Alfred | Nikolas Cassadine's butler in the TV series General Hospital | Jack Donner | |
| Alfred | Mayflowers' murderous butler in Hudson Hawk movie | Donald Burton | |
| Alfredo | Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda | | |
| Alfred Pennyworth | Bruce Wayne's butler in the Batman universe | various | |
| Aloysius Parker | Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds | David Graham and Ron Cook | |
| Andrew | in the film Overboard | Roddy McDowall | |
| Andrew Martin | robotic/android butler in Isaac Asimov's novella The Bicentennial Man and the film based on it | | |
| Archer | Samuel and Elizabeth Daily's butler in The Woman In Black | John R. Walker | |
| Bailey | Muffy Crosswire's butler and chauffeur in TV series Arthur | Bruce Dinsmore | |
| Banks | Simon Peel's butler in the British sitcom Never the Twain | Teddy Turner | |
| Barkley | in the film The Toy | Wilfrid Hyde-White | |
| Barrymore | butler to Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles | | |
| Bates | in Top Hat (1935) | Eric Blore | |
| Bautista | in Rigoberto Picaporte | | |
| Sebastian Beach | butler to the Earl of Emsworth in Something Fresh | | |
| Belvedere, Lynn | from the novel Belvedere, the adapted feature film and its sequels, and the TV series Mr. Belvedere | Clifton Webb, Christopher Hewett | [1] |
| Beeker | from the Phule novels by Robert Asprin | | |
| Benson DuBois | butler to the Tates on Soap and household manager to Governor Gatling on the spinoff series Benson | Robert Guillaume | |
| Bernard | The Osborns' butler from the Spider-Man movies | John Paxton | [2] |
| Bertram | butler to the Ross family in Jessie | Kevin Chamberlin | |
| Bill Tremblay | butler of the Where's Wabi League | White Glove specialist | |
| Bob | in Bob the Butler | Tom Green | |
| Bootler | butler to Lady Bow from the video game Paper Mario | | |
| Brackett | butler to Lord Belborough of the children's television show Chigley | | |
| Brabinger | family retainer of the fforbes-Hamiltons from the BBC TV series To the Manor Born | John Rudling | |
| Brewster | the Cranleighs’ butler in Doctor Who – Black Orchid | Brian Hawksley | |
| Brian Albumen | faithful servant/valet to Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut (Rik Mayall) from the ITV TV series Believe Nothing | Michael Maloney | |
| Brown, Birmingham | butler/chauffeur of Charlie Chan in the 1940s film serial | Mantan Moreland | |
| Brunton | butler to the Musgrave family in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual | James Hazeldine, Brian Jackson, David Bannerman, Clifton Boyne | |
| Mervyn Bunter | butler/valet and co-investigator in the Lord Peter Wimsey novels | | |
| Butler, Domovoi | from the Artemis Fowl novels | | |
| Butler, Juliet | from the Artemis Fowl novels | | |
| Butler, The | 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 | |
| Butler, The | butler to No. 2 in The Prisoner | Angelo Muscat | |
| Butler Livers | butler from the game Brave Fencer Musashi | R. Martin Klein | |
| Mr. Butlertron | from Clone High | Chris Miller | [3] |
| Charles Carson | butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | Jim Carter | |
| Chives | loyal butler to Raef Halleber (formerly Julian Halleber) from the UK TV series ChuckleVision | David Yip | |
| Cavendish | butler to Sir Hugo Drax in James Bond movie Moonraker | Arthur Howard | |
| Coleman | from Trading Places | Denholm Elliott | |
| Collins | Marcus Scarman’s ill-fated butler in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars | Michael Bilton | |
| Chunjin | undercover Communist valet to Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate | | |
| Claude Faustus | butler for Alois Trancy of the Trancy Household in Kuroshitsuji II | Jason Douglas | |
| Crichton | butler to Lord Loam, from J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton | | |
| Cube | from Princess Maker and Petite Princess Yucie | Tomo Saeki (Japanese), Josh Meyer (English) | |
| Delbert Grady | from Stephen King's The Shining | Philip Stone in the film adaptation | |
| Desmond | from the Rip Kirby comics | | |
| Didit | butler in the Clue DVD game | | |
| Drake | Oliver Warbucks' butler in Annie | | |
| Duckworth | Scrooge McDuck's butler/chauffeur on Ducktales (Battista in the Italian comics) | | |
| Edgar | butler to retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in The Aristocats | Roddy Maude-Roxby | |
| Edmund Blackadder | butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third | Rowan Atkinson | |
| English the butler | butler to Kid Notorious in Kid Notorious | | |
| Ferguson | butler to Frasier Crane in Frasier episode "Taking Liberties" | Victor Garber | |
| Fodor | butler to the Mortevals in Boris Karloff Mexican film House of Evil | José Luis G. de León | |
| Franz | butler to the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music | Gil Stuart | |
| Mr. French | Uncle Bill's butler in the 1960s US sitcom Family Affair | Sebastian Cabot | |
| Frith | in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | | |
| Genji Ronoue | from Umineko no Naku Koro ni | | |
| 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 | |
| George (billed as Manservant) | manservant to Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict | Hugh Moxey | |
| George Costanza | briefly became Frank Costanza's butler in the The Handicap Spot due to payment of a wrecked car | | |
| Giles | from the murder mystery reality-competition series Whodunnit? | Gildart Jackson | [4] |
| Giovanni Bertuccio | butler/steward to The Count of Monte Cristo | Sergio Rubini, Dominic Barto, Paul Le Person, Paolo Stoppa, Marcel Herrand | |
| Godfrey | butler to the Bullock Family from My Man Godfrey | William Powell, David Niven | |
| Grovely | butler to Montana Max of Tiny Toon Adventures | | |
| Hargreaves | butler to Harrison Chase in the Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Doom | Seymour Green | |
| Hayate Ayasaki | from Hayate no Gotoku | Ryōko Shiraishi | |
| Heathcliff | from Big Hero 6 | David Shaughnessy | |
| 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 | | |
| Henry | waiter and member of Isaac Asimov's Black Widowers club | | |
| Herbert Arthur Runcible 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 | |
| Herbert | from Justice Squad | | [5] |
| Hermann | butler to Count Scarlioni/Scaroth in the Doctor Who story "City of Death" | Kevin Flood | |
| Higgins | from the 1951 radio comedy It's Higgins, Sir, recreated as the television show Our Man Higgins in 1962 | Harry McNaughton, Stanley Holloway | |
| Hillary | butler for Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | Chris Barrie | |
| Hobson | in Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks | John Gielgud | |
| Hovis | from Catscratch | Maurice LaMarche | |
| Angus Hudson | from Upstairs, Downstairs | Gordon Jackson | |
| Ianto Jones | from Torchwood (while his role could be considered General Support, he considers that the services he provides make him "like a butler") | | |
| Ingmar | Freakazoid's mute butler | | |
| Igor | butler to Count Duckula (animated series) | Jack May | |
| Ishizaki | Karin Kanzuki's rotund, muscular butler in Street Fighter Alpha 3 | | |
| Jacob | the unisex butler in all the La Cage Aux Folles films | Benny Luke | |
| Jake | witch disguised as the Wilhern family's butler in Penelope | Michael Feast | |
| Jakob | the avatar's butler in Fire Emblem Fates | Junichi Suwabe |
| Jamesir Bensonmum | blind butler to Lionel Twain in the movie Murder by Death | Alec Guinness | |
| Edwin Jarvis | from Marvel Comics' Avengers series | | |
| Jeepers | Bob Hope's butler in Paramount's Never Say Die | Ernest Cossart | |
| 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 | |
| Jeeves | the Colonel's butler from the adventure game Colonel's Bequest | | |
| Jodot | the count's butler and chief assassin from Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro | Ichirō Nagai (Japanese), Jeff Winkless, Milton James (English) | |
| Joost | Olivier B. Bommel's loyal butler in the comic series Tom Poes | | |
| Jorge Campos | featured in Sensitive Butlers IV | | |
| Winston "Jeeves" Smith | butler of Lara Croft in the video game series Tomb Raider | | |
| Jenkins | Butler of Daphne Blake in the long-running animated TV series Scooby-Doo | Don Messick | |
| Jennings | the butler in the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman | Alan Bates | |
| John Doe AKA Shelly de Killer | from Justice for All | | |
| 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 | |
| Kato | Britt Reid's valet in the Green Hornet | Raymond Toyo, Rollon Parker, Michael Tolan, Keye Luke, Bruce Lee, Jay Chou | |
| Kyrano | manservant to Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds | David Graham (TV series), Bhasker Patel (film) | |
| 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 | |
| Lawrence | Doctor Nefarious' butler in the Ratchet and Clank videogame series | Michael Bell | |
| Lurch | in The Addams Family | Ted Cassidy, Carel Struycken | |
| Marmaduke Ruggles | in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), "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 | Charles Laughton | |
| Martin | from The Parent Trap remake | Simon Kunz | |
| Max von Mayerling | butler to Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard | Erich von Stroheim, George Hearn, Steven Stein-Grainger | |
| Max | (a parody of Max von Mayerling) from Cats Don't Dance | Mark Dindal | |
| Max | from the TV show Hart to Hart | Lionel Stander | |
| 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 | |
| Meadows | from Chuck Jones' animated short The Aristo-Cat | Mel Blanc | |
| Meadows | butler to the Stanley family from The Pirate Movie | Clive Hearne | |
| 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 | |
| Mr. Homn | Lwaxana Troi's manservant in Star Trek: The Next Generation | Carel Struycken | |
| Mr. Nettlebed | from Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home | | |
| 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) | |
| Nick Nack | butler to Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun | Herve Villechaize | |
| Niles | in The Nanny | Daniel Davis | |
| Nimrod | Neanderthal butler in the Doctor Who tale Ghost Light | Carl Forgione | |
| Norman Burg | Roger Smith's butler in anime TV series The Big O | Milton James | |
| Orto K. Gotchi | Dudley's butler in Street Fighter III | | |
| Passepartout | personal valet to Mr. Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | Cantinflas, Eric Idle, Jackie Chan | |
| Paul Moriyama | Momoka Nishizawa's butler in Sgt. Frog | | |
| Poole | butler to Dr. Henry Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Edgar Norton, Peter Godfrey, Gillie Fenwick, Stanley Holloway, Roland Curram, Frank Barrie, Donald Grody, Peter Johl, James Judy, Brian Pettifer | |
| Praiseworthy | Jeeves-like butler in the children's novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman | | |
| Ramsley | from The Haunted Mansion | | |
| Randolph | The Cleary's Butler from Wedding Crashers | Ron Canada | |
| Reginald | The Quartermaine family's former butler in the TV series General Hospital | | |
| Rosie the Robot Maid | from The Jetsons | | |
| 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 | |
| Riffael Raffit | in Godchild | | |
| 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) | |
| Rochester | butler to Jack Benny on the Jack Benny Show | | |
| Rogers | husband of Ethel Rogers and suspect in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None | Richard Haydn, Paul L. Smith | |
| Rowen J. Ilbert | Butler for the Sharil family in the video game Tales of Xillia | Mugihito Terada (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English) | |
| Saunders | the butler who replaced Benson DuBois on Soap | Roscoe Lee Browne | |
| Sebastian Beach | Lord Emsworth's butler at Blandings Castle, from the works of P. G. Wodehouse | | |
| Sebastian | Lili's butler in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection | | |
| Sebastian Michaelis | butler to Ciel Phantomhive in the manga Kuroshitsuji | Daisuke Ono (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English), Hiro Mizushima (Live action) | |
| Shakelford | from Justice Squad and The Critic | | |
| Shinobu | Shiori Hongo's Butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji | Osamu Mukai (live action) | |
| Silversmith | butler of Deverill Hall in The Mating Season | | |
| Smethells | steward for the player in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time | | |
| Smithers | Veronica Lodge's butler in the Archie comics | | |
| Spencer | the Hartfords' butler in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive | | |
| Standish | butler to T. Herman Zweibel, editor of The Onion | | |
| Stevens | in Remains of the Day | Anthony Hopkins | |
| Stokes | butler in the sitcom You Rang M'Lord | Paul Shane | |
| Subaru Konoe | female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel | Yuka Iguchi | |
| Tanaka | former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Kuroshitsuji. | | |
| Thomas | butler to the Lord family in The Philadelphia Story | | |
| Valkenhayn R. Hellsing | butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series | Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), Doug Stone (English) | |
| various members of the Igor family | in the Discworld novels | | |
| Wadsworth | in the movie Clue | Tim Curry | |
| Walter C. Dornez | from the manga Hellsing (and subsequent anime) by Kouta Hirano | Motomu Kiyokawa, Romi Park (young) | |
| Wallace | the Ridgemeres’ butler in the Only Fools and Horses episode "A Touch of Glass" | Donald Bisset | |
| Wilkins | butler to Mr. and Mrs. Topper in Topper and Topper Takes a Trip | Alan Mowbray | |
| Willikins | Samuel Vimes' butler in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett | | |
| Winston | from Oliver & Company | | |
| Winston | the Griplings’ butler and chauffeur from As Told By Ginger | John Kassir | |
| Waylon Smithers | assistant to Mr Burns from The Simpsons | Harry Shearer | |
| Wintergreen | Slade's butler in Teen Titans | | |
| Woodhouse | Sterling Archer's mistreated butler (technically a valet) in the comedy series Archer, who formerly worked for Mallory Archer. | George Coe | |
| Wong | from Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange series | | |
| You There | butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking" | | |
| Zazu | not technically a butler, but he serves as majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King | Rowan Atkinson | |
