<P> The best - known fictional manservant , and the prototype of the quintessential British butler , is himself not a butler at all . Reginald Jeeves , the iconic creation of author P.G. Wodehouse is a `` gentleman 's gentleman '' and general factotum . Probably the best - known fictional butlers are Alfred from the Batman comic and films ; Hudson of Upstairs , Downstairs television fame ; Mr Carson from the Downton Abbey television series ; and Crichton from J.M. Barrie 's The Admirable Crichton . Lesser - knowns include Mr. Belvedere from the novel Belvedere , which was adapted into a feature film with sequels and later a television series ; Lurch , from the television series The Addams Family , based on Charles Addams ' The New Yorker cartoons ; Beach , from the Wodehouse series about Blandings Castle ; Niles , the butler at the Sheffield house in American sitcom The Nanny , Geoffrey from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air , and Benson from the two series Soap and Benson . </P>
what is the name of the under butler in downton abbey
Mr Carson