Photos: 17 beloved pop culture butlers

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Photos: 17 beloved pop culture butlers

Photos: 16 beloved pop culture butlers

1947: English actor Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903 - 1991).

LONDON - JULY 21: Actor Michael Caine arrives at the UK film premiere of 'The Dark Knight' at Odeon, Leicester Square on July 21, 2008 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Actor Tim Curry attends the Museum of the Moving Image salute to Alec Baldwin at Cipriani 42nd Street on February 28, 2011 in New York City.

CHICHESTER, ENGLAND - AUGUST 02: Rowan Atkinson gives an award at ladies day at 'Glorious Goodwood' at Goodwood on August 2, 2012 in Chichester, England.

Actor/Comedian Tom Green arrives at the premiere of 'Blue Jasmine' hosted by AFI & Sony Picture Classics at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on July 24, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.

British actor John Gielgud poses in New York Jan. 17, 1947.

Sir Alan Bates

In this photo provided by ABC-TV, Robert Guillaume is shown in character as "Benson," Oct. 1982.

Red Buttons, top right, and Billy Barty, lower right, join Ricardo Montalban,upper left, and Herve Villechaize,lower left, for a taping of "Fantasy Island" in this file photo from Jan. 23, 1979. Buttons died of vascular disease at his home in the Century City area of Los Angeles, publicist Warren Cowan said Thursday July 13, 2006. He was 87. He had been ill for some time, and was with family members when he died, Cowan said.

Van Williams portrays, "The Green Hornet" and the young Bruce Lee as "Kato," his Oriental sidekick houseboy-chauffer in the TV action adventure series of the late 1960s.

Actor Bill Paxton, right, and his father John arrive for the New York premiere of "Spider Man 3" during the Tribeca Film Festival Monday, April 30, 2007 in the Queens borough of New York.

Hugh Laurie, left, and Stephen Fry, star as "Jeeves and Wooster" on "Masterpiece Theatre". The show gives you laugh-out-loud farce, rapid-fire banter, deft comic performances and happy endings.

In this image released by PBS, Jim Carter as Mr. Carson is shown in a scene from the second season of "Downton Abbey."

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in Sony Pictures Releasings' "Remains of the Day".

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1947: English actor Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903 - 1991).

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