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Edgar Balthazar

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

FEATURE FILMS The Aristocats

ANIMATORS John Lounsbery

Milt Kahl
Frank Thomas
Eric Larson

VOICE Roddy Maude-Roxby

CHARACTER INFORMATION

OTHER NAMES Butler (during opening credits)

Old Picklepuss (by Berlioz)
Sly old Fox (by himself)

PERSONALITY Kind, loyal (both formerly), polite,

greedy, arrogant, determined,
envious, sneaky, bumbling, sly,
clumsy, sympathetic, humane,
comical, sophisticated, refined,
elegant, dim-witted, inept,
incompetent, oafish, bu!oonish,
cheating, dishonest, tricky,
cowardly, jealous, funny,
pompous, hypocritical,
treacherous, manipulative,
selfish, scheming, egotistical,
stupid, clever, deceptive

APPEARANCE Slender, fair skin, half bald, dark

gray hair, black eyebrows, brief
belly fat

OCCUPATION Butler
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ALIGNMENT Good, later bad

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GOAL To get rid of Duchess and her
kittens in order to have Madame
Bonfamille's fortune all to
himself (failed)
"Edgar, you sly old fox!"

HOME Paris (formerly)

EDGAR BATHAZAR
Timbuktu, Mali (as his
punishment)

Edgar Balthazar is the main antagonist in Disney's

ALLIES Madame Adelaide Bonfamille,
1970 animated feature film The Hautecourt,
Georges Aristocats.Frou-Frou,
He was
the loyal butler to rich millionairess Madame
Duchess, Toulouse, Marie,
Berlioz (all formerly)
Bonfamille, until he found out that she was going to
leave her entire fortune to Duchess and her kittens
ENEMIES Georges Hautecourt, Duchess,
instead of him, making him greedy
Thomas and determined
O'Malley, Toulouse,
not to let anyone stand Marie,
in his Berlioz
way of(all when he
getting the
learns that the cats will have the
fortune himself.
fortune), Napoleon and
Lafayette, Frou-Frou,
Catálogo Anual 2021
Roquefort, Scat Cat, Alley Cats
Sanborns Hermosillo
LIKES Money, fortune, rewards, red

Background wine, champagne, cigars,

refinements, his own plan to
leave the cats
Edgar is portrayed as a polite and sophisticated
butler, yet underneath his
DISLIKES exterior
Having belies
to wait a scheming,
to inherit his
fortune, cats (when he got only
greedy, and impatient man (though this attitude
jealous of Duchess and kittens),
sparks because Madame Bonfamille's
Scat Cat and his fortune is
gang, Thomas
mentioned; otherwise, he wouldNapoleon
O'Malley, have willingly
and
Lafayette, Roquefort
remained loyal to his mistress, thus eliminating his
antagonist role).
PARAPHERNALIA Motorcycle
Sickle
Personality Pitchfork
Club
While arrogant and greedy, Edgar does not seem to be
extremely
FATE cruel. It wouldThrown
have been easyaway
and locked for him
in ato
just kill Duchess and hertrunk,
kittens,
to bebut instead,
shipped he
to Timbuktu

chose only to kidnap them and release them into the

QUOTE "CATS?!"
French countryside; when that didn't work, he
"Cats inherit first and I come
decided to ship them toafter
Timbuktu as well as when he
the cats!"
fought Thomas O'Malley"You're
with agoing to Timbuktu,
pitchfork, he used if it'sit
the last thing I do!" (his last
to restrain the cat instead of impale and kill him. This
words)
means that Edgar clearly has a better sense of
morality than villains like Cruella De Vil and is far more
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clumsy than villainous, as evidenced from his
bumbling antics, from stumbling over a trash can to
mistaking a tree branch for a gun to his back, making
a clumsy U-turn on his motorcycle away from the
police station to riding his motorcycle down the
subway stairs by mistake, spitting out a mouthful of
wine in shock when he hears the kittens meowing
loudly at the door, getting his shoelaces tied together
by Roquefort the mouse and tripping on them, and
(most comical of all) getting in a situation involving
Napoleon and Lafayette (two farm dogs) attacking
him. He is also more misunderstood than evil, as
shown when he didn't hear about the entire truth of
the will and jumped to conclusions.

Though certainly clever and deceitful, Edgar isn't

really that much intelligent as he thinks he is. He
seems to take the expression that cats have nine lives
literally, explaining his belief that he'd be dead long
before the cats pass away, to not to mention that he
counted the years they would live one after the other.
He also doesn't seem to realize that even if Duchess
and her kittens could outlive him, he'd still have
control over their inherited wealth, since, as cats, they
obviously can't use money by themselves. However,
one explanation may be that Edgar might have had to
use some of the money on the cats to make sure that
they were well taken care of, when he really just
wants it all for himself.

Role in the film

Edgar starts o! as Madame Adelaide's faithful butler,

yet upon overhearing that she plans to leave her
entire estate and fortune to her cats and then to
Edgar himself after they die, he begins scheming to
get rid of them, erroneously calculating that by the
time the cats die (as he believed that the cats literally
possess nine lives), he will already have died of old
age (unaware that he, of course, will be kept in charge
of the fortune). He mixes sleeping pills with the cats'
milk that afternoon, and nearly tasted the milk before
realizing the better of it. Once the cats are all asleep,
Edgar sneaks them out the mansion and drives out
into the countryside to get rid of them. His plan is
foiled by two dogs, Napoleon and Lafayette, who
reside on a farm, when they spot the butler and begin
their pastime of chasing. Desperate to escape alive,
Edgar is forced to leave his umbrella, bowler hat,
shoes, and sidecar behind at the farm. He also loses
the basket holding the kittens by the riverside, but
doesn't notice the loss until he returns to the
mansion.

The next morning, everyone in the mansion is

distraught at the cats' disappearance. Edgar's the
only resident of the mansion feeling pleased, much to
the surprise of Roquefort and Frou-Frou. Unaware
that Frou-Frou's an intelligent horse, Edgar enters the
stable, and in his overconfidence, reveals his
wrongdoings through the newspaper detailing the
kidnapping, much to Frou-Frou and Roquefort’s
disgust, while Edgar gloats over the news. His
happiness is cut short when he suddenly remembers
that he left his hat, umbrella, motorcycle sidecar, and
the cats' basket back at the countryside, and they
would, in fact, implicate him in the crime, and hurries
to retrieve them before the police do. That night, after
another fight with Napoleon and Lafayette, who had
made beds and other things out of the stu!, Edgar
escapes with his things with the use of a fishing rod,
thereby eliminating all evidence of his crimes.

Edgar is once again feeling pleased with himself and

celebrates with a bottle of red wine until the cats
return home with help from an alley cat, Thomas
O'Malley. Shocked but determined, Edgar traps them
again, tying them up in a sack. After pretending to
sympathize with Madame, he throws the cats in a
trunk and plans to send them to Timbuktu, Mali to
ensure they will never return. Thomas and his alley
cat friends intervene and engage Edgar in a brutal
battle which culminates in Edgar ending up being hit
on the head with a falling bail of hay, tied down with
Frou-Frou's horse collar, gagged with a bucket over
his head, and knocked and locked in the trunk himself
and getting sent to Timbuktu. As the delivery
men load the trunk into the van, Edgar is seemingly
unable to call for help as he is still gagged or dazed
from the scu"e with the animals. Adelaide apparently
never learns of Edgar's treachery, believing that he
simply left on his own accord, and excludes him from
her will.

Disney Parks

A walkaround version of Edgar debuted in 2018 at

Disneyland Paris as part of the "Disney Loves Jazz"
event, with his meet and greet station featuring the
cat basket and the trunk to Timbuktu.

Gallery

Trivia

Other than singing "Rock-a-Bye, Kitties" while

drugging the cats' milk with Madame's sleeping
pills, Edgar is one of the few Disney villains that
does not have his/her own song.
Edgar being the antagonist is a reference to the
well-known phrase in mystery novels: "The Butler
Did It!" This is referenced when Roquefort tells
O'Malley that Duchess and the kittens were in
trouble, and that the "butler did it."
It is unknown if Edgar managed to make it back to
the mansion before Madame woke up and found
the cats missing. If he didn't, he might have lied
to her, telling her that the reason why he wasn't
there when she woke up was because he couldn't
sleep and decided to go out on his motorcycle,
which she foolishly believed and didn't suspect
him of having to do with the cats' disappearance.
But it is likely that he did manage to get back
before she woke up, and that's why she never
suspected him of anything.
Originally, Edgar was going to be accompanied by
a scheming maid named Elvira, who was
supposed to be his partner-in-crime.
Despite being one of Disney's more comic relief
villains, Edgar's fate would have been more or
less ambiguous and brutal in real life. The fact
that the trunk had no air holes nor food nor water
may imply that the cats would starve/su!ocate to
death inside the trunk, and the same could
happen to Edgar.
Originally, Edgar was actually going to succeed in
defeating Thomas O'Malley and his alley cats and
take the trunk away only to run into some
policemen (contacted by Roquefort after seeing
him plot to send the cats away), and get arrested
on the spot for pet-nabbing.
While fantasizing about claiming Madame
Adelaide's fortune, dollar signs appear in his eyes
and float around his head, and he even says "All
of them dollars," while the dollar has never been
the currency of France (at the time it was the CFP
franc, better known as the French Franc, and is
currently the Euro). A possible explanation is that
he would plan to live in America after inheriting
the fortune and thus turn the Francs into dollars,
or, conversely, that most of Madame's savings are
in dollars in American banks.
Edgar is credited as "Butler" in the credits.
In some books based on the movie, Edgar gets
fired instead of being shipped o! to Timbuktu.
In a German book adaption, it is revealed that the
crate arrived in Equatorial Africa (it is not
specified whether it is Equatorial Africa itself or
French Equatorial Africa) where Edgar was
arrested for illegal immigration.
In the film, Edgar does not mention any of the
kittens by their names, though he does once
address Duchess by her name.
The amount of sleeping pills Edgar put on the cat
food to drunk Duchess and her kittens are
enough to kill a grown man in real life. So
realistically, Duchess and her kittens should have
been killed after consuming Edgar cream soup.

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The Aristocats • Video • The Aristocats II • Books •

The Aristocats: The Animated Series

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Characters

Duchess • Thomas O'Malley • Toulouse • Marie •

Berlioz • Roquefort • Frou-Frou • Edgar • Madame
Adelaide Bonfamille • Georges Hautecourt • The
Milkman • Napoleon and Lafayette • Abigail and
Amelia Gabble • Uncle Waldo • Scat Cat • Alley Cats •
Elvira (deleted)

Locations

Paris • Bonfamille's Residence • Farm • Alley Cats'

Apartment

Songs

The Aristocats • Scales and Arpeggios • Thomas

O'Malley Cat • Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

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