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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant.
Quentin Crisp. Actor: Orlando. Quentin Crisp was born Denis Pratt on Christmas Day, 1908, in the London suburb of Sutton. He was the youngest of four children; his father a lawyer; his mother a former nursery governess.
Feb 1, 2019 · Although he faced harassment and abuse every single day, Crisp decided as a young man to live out his identity publicly, in a grand way, even outrageously, dying his hair scarlet, donning thick make-up and wearing colorful gender non-conforming clothes in a repressive England of the 1920s and 30s.
Nov 22, 1999 · Quentin Crisp, the British-born writer, raconteur and actor who found fame at 59 when he published ''The Naked Civil Servant,'' an account of his openly homosexual life in London, and who found...
Quentin Crisp. Actor: Orlando. Quentin Crisp was born Denis Pratt on Christmas Day, 1908, in the London suburb of Sutton. He was the youngest of four children; his father a lawyer; his mother a former nursery governess.
Dec 18, 2016 · An evening with Quentin Crisp, The wit and wisdom of the irreplaceable irascible Quentin Crisp. I had to hunt this lecture down in the bowels of the internet and re upload it, because it was...
Nov 22, 1999 · Denis Pratt (Quentin Crisp), writer and actor: born Sutton, Surrey 25 December 1908; died Manchester 21 November 1999. QUENTIN CRISP'S painted face, his tilted hat, indeed the rhinestone ...
Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) is the author of the classic — and flamboyantly eccentric — coming-of-age memoir The Naked Civil Servant. The award-winning film version of The Naked Civil Servant, starring John Hurt, made him an instant international celebrity.
LONDON (Reuters) -- Flamboyant writer and gay campaigner Quentin Crisp, author of "The Naked Civil Servant," died on Sunday, police said. He was 90.
Apr 20, 2015 · Quentin Crisp was made famous by his 1968 book 'The Naked Civil Servant' and was also a prominent gay rights campaigner. The title was inspired by Crisp's time as...
