 Despite his homosexual leanings, in 1973 Procktor married a widow neighbour and restaurateur Kirsten Benson.She sold her restaurant (Odin's) to Peter Langan, and Procktor, Hockney, Bacon and Lucian Freud all provided paintings to hang on the walls of Odin's and Langan's Brasserie in return for hospitality.He appeared, as himself, in the 1974 Hockney biopic, "A Bigger Splash".