Butler

"...don't call me Junior!"

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CHARACTER
German Butler
Gender	Male
Nationality	Austrian
Profession(s)	Butler
Allegiance(s)	Castle Brunwald

"Yes, this is a castle, and we have many tapestries. But if you are a Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse!"

―The German Butler to Indiana Jones using the name "Lord Clarence MacDonald."

The German Butler was a servant at Castle Brunwald in 1938. He had a nephew called Otto back in Salzburg.

Biography

The German Butler was assigned by the Nazis to work at Castle Brunwald in 1938, the same year in which the Nazis began their quest to find the Holy Grail.

That same year, the German Butler was surprised when a couple turned up unannounced one stormy night, claming to be "Lord Clarence MacDonald and his lovely assistant". and refused to allow the pair to view the tapestries as they were not expected. The butler told "MacDonald", a disguised Indiana Jones, that if he was a Scottish lord then he himself was Mickey Mouse. This earned the butler a good punch to the face which knocked him unconscious.

Behind the scenes

The German Butler was portrayed by Vernon Dobtcheff in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

During the development of the film's original script, written by Jeffrey Boam, the German Butler's original line before Jones knocks him out was, "If you are a Scottish lord, then I am Jesse Owens!" This was changed to Mickey Mouse because filmmakers thought that many people wouldn't know who Jesse Owens was. The Jesse Owens reference remains in Rob MacGregor's novelization (where Indy claims to be an English lord, not a Scottish one). In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure his line is simply "...a movie star". After this, it was originally planned that Jones and Elsa Schneider would put him in a sarcophagus, but it was cut. Despite this, in MacGregor's novelisation, he is put in a closet instead which is where the guards find him.

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Indiana Jones will introduce him not as Clarence MacDonald but as "Robert McFalfa", a nod to the Bob Falfa character played by Harrison Ford in George Lucas' American Graffiti. In the game it is possible to alternatively pass the butler simply by talking. This will give the player more IQ (Indy Quotient) points.

In LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, the butler shares a likeness with Alfred Pennyworth from LEGO Batman: The Video Game. After he discovers that Jones is lying, Jones punches him in the face very strong that stuns the German Butler, and subsequently Indy takes advantage to push him out of the castle and closes him to the door. Along with René Emile Belloq and Walter Donovan, he is one of the only three enemy characters without a weapon.

Appearances

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novel
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Non-canonical appearance)