What the Butler Saw 36 years old

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

Credits

Timothy West as

Bryan Pringle as

Prunella Scales as

Tyler Butterworth as

Dinsdale Landen as

What the Butler Saw Cast

Name	Character
Timothy West He was 52, now 89 years old
Bryan Pringle He was 52, 67 years old when he died
Prunella Scales She was 54, now 91 years old
Tyler Butterworth He was 28, now 65 years old
Dinsdale Landen He was 54, 71 years old when he died

What the Butler Saw Crew

Name	Department
Barry Davis as Director. He was 43 (now 80) years old	Directing

What the Butler Saw (36 years)

Release day: Saturday, May 23, 1987
Runtime: 85 minutes