Edgar Balthazar

**Edgar Balthazar** is the main antagonist of the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, which is based on the story of the same name by Tom McGowan and the late Tom Rowe. He is the former greedy butler of Madame Adelaide de Bonfamile who plots to get rid of Duchess and her kittens in order to be the inheritor to the former's fortune and estate just for himself.

He was voiced by Roddy Maude-Roxby.

## The Aristocats

Edgar is first seen taking his boss Madame and her pets on a ride where he is also taking them home. At the estate, when Edgar overheard that Madame Adelaide is leaving her estate and fortune to her cats, Edgar despairs, foolishly believing that by the time cats die, he will already be dead of old age as well as assuming that cats have nine lives. Edgar then comes up with a plan to get rid of the cats just to have the fortune and estate.

In order to ensure this, he uses the ingredients including sleeping pills just to make the cats sleep and when that's done, he almost tastes it which he didn't due to the fact that will cause him to go to sleep. Edgar then delivers the milk to cats to which they did which cause them to go to sleep as well as their friend Roquefort. After that, Edgar then kidnaps the cats and takes them to the countryside as well as making sure no one witness his crime.

At the countryside, by the time Edgar arrive to the countryside in order to leave the cats, two dogs named Napoleon and Lafayette attacked and chases him around the countryside which caused him to accidentally lose the cats at the river (although its unknown if him leaving the cats at the river was intended or not) until he finally lose them.

At the stable, Edgar arrives asking Frou-Frou if she can keep his crimes secret as well as revealing that his actions made the headlines. This cause Roquefort and Frou-Frou to realize that he is the catnapper. While gloating about the police will find any evidence proving that he is the catnapper, Edgar realizes that he lost his hat, umbrella, and basket are gone since he needs to return those in order to eliminate all of the evidence of his crime.

That night, Edgar goes back at the countryside just to get his stuff and during that, he secretly uses his fishing rod to take the hat and basket as well as tickling Napoleon for the same reason. Edgar then tries to take the umbrella but that cause the two dogs to notice there's something strange and when they realize that its Edgar who woke them up, they chased him but however he outsmarts the dogs this time.

The next morning, the cats return and when Edgar notice this, he was shocked since he accidentally left them at the river. Edgar then tries to kidnap them, but his shoes briefly stop him. Roquefort tries to warn Duchess and her kittens about Edgar, but the cats believe Roquefort is glad to see them coming back. By the time cats came inside, Edgar kidnaps them again and locks them in an oven due to finding out Madame heard the cats. During that, Edgar pretends to sympathize with Madame which is before she believes that no one is outside. O'Malley then sends Roquefort for help.

After that, Edgar calls the delivery man to arrive just to take away the cats. He then locks the cats in a trunk planning to send them to Timbuktu as well as making sure that they never come back but before Edgar takes the trunk outside, O'Malley attacks Edgar and he and Frou-Frou try stop him but Edgar chases O'Malley with a hook and a pitchfork, but soon get attacked by Scat Cat and his gang as well.

While the gang attacks Edgar, Roquefort manages to unlock the trunk as well as telling everyone quiet in order to focus. When O'Malley opens the trunk in order to save Duchess and the kittens, Edgar closes the trunk even with O'Malley inside it (most likely because he was ruining his plans), still intending to ship them to Timbuktu. To prevent this, the alley cats throw stuff at Edgar as well as Frou-Frou kicking him at the trunk which cause him to be trapped. The shipping company then arrives taking the trunk away. It's unknown what happened to Edgar after this but it's possible that he starved to death since there are no air holes on the trunk.

## Personality

Edgar is portrayed as a scheming, greedy, and impatient man who wants to have the fortune and estate just for himself. He is also seem to doesn't care about anyone in the movie due to him as the main antagonist of the film showing he only cares about himself.

Despite that, he did have some redeeming qualities such as genuinely nice towards Madame Adelaide and George at the beginning of the film.

## Trivia

* He is referred to onscreen as **Edgar**, but he is only credited as **Bulter.**
* In a storybook adaption, instead of being shipped to Timbuktu, Edgar gets fired by Madame Adelaide after she discovers that he is trying to get rid of her pets in order to have the fortune and estate. In the German storybook adaption, in which Edgar was shipped to Timbuktu like in in the film, it is revealed that he was released from the trunk once at Equatorial Africa and was arrested for illegal immigration.
* It is unknown if Edgar managed to return to the mansion before Madame woke up and finds out that her cats are gone. If he didn't, he might lie to her, telling her the reason he wasn't there when the cats are kidnapped is because he couldn't sleep and decided to take a drive by using his motorcycle, which she foolishly believed and didn't suspect him of having to do with the cats' disappearance. But it's likely he did return to the mansion before Madame woke up, and that's why she didn't suspected him of anything.
	+ Of course, in another storybook adaption, Edgar did lie to Madame about why the cats are missing, expect by saying they went for a walk.

* Although in the film, it isn't clear if him leaving the cats at the river was intended or not, in some storybook adaptation, Edgar actually planned to leave the cats at the river.
* Edgar was going to have a minion who is a scheming maid named Elvira. Also, he was originally intended to have a villain song in the form of love duet, between him and Elvira titled "How Much You Mean Me/Count Me Slowly.
* Some deleted scenes of the film show that Edgar was originally going to have full hair and a mustache.
* Edgar is one of a few characters in the film to have their voice actors still alive since the rest of the voice actors passed away.
* Edgar is Roddy Maude-Roxby's only voice role as well as his sole villainous role which is before his retirement in 2010.