Butley

Butley, British motion picture based on a Tony Award-winning play by Simon Gray. Released in 1974, this was the first film directed by British playwright Harold Pinter. During a day at his office, the lonely literature professor Ben Butley (played by Alan Bates) has a crisis when he learns his former wife is remarrying and his lover and officemate, Joey Keyston (Richard O’Callaghan), is leaving him for another man.

Director

• Harold Pinter

Cast

• Alan Bates (Ben Butley)
• Jessica Tandy (Edna Shaft)
• Richard O'Callaghan (Joey Keyston)
• Susan Engel (Anne Butley)
• Michael Byrne (Reg Nuttall)
• Georgina Hale (Miss Heasman)
• Simon Rouse (Mr. Gardner)
• John Savident (James)
• Oliver Maguire (Train passenger)
• Colin Haigh (Male student)
• Darien Angadi (Male student)
• Susan Wooldridge (Female student)
• Lindsay Ingram (Female student)
• Patti Love (Female student)
• Belinda Low (Female student)

Quote

• Ben Butley: “I’m a one-woman man, and I’ve had mine, thank God.”