Denis Charles Pratt

Pseudonym:	Quentin Crisp
Born:	December 25, 1908(1908-12-25) Sutton, Surrey, England
Died:	November 21, 1999 (aged 90) Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation:	Writer, Actor

Quentin Crisp (December 25, 1908(1908-12-25) – November 21, 1999), was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to conceal his homosexuality. Image File history File links Quentincrisp1. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Sutton is the principal town in the London Borough of Sutton. ... This is about Surrey, England. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chorlton is a suburb of Manchester. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2006 estimate... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2006 estimate... A raconteur is a person known for telling amusing stories and anecdotes. ... St. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of autobiography by the gay icon Quentin Crisp and a TV movie based on the book. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ...

Early life

Born Denis Charles Pratt in Sutton, Surrey, England, the fourth child of accountant Charles Pratt (1871 – 1931) and former governess Frances Pratt (née Phillips) (1873 – 1960), he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks. Sutton is the principal town in the London Borough of Sutton. ... This is about Surrey, England. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... A governess is a female employee from outside of the family who teaches children within the family circle. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Homophobia is the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ...

By his own account, Crisp was effeminate in behaviour from an early age and found himself the object of teasing at Kingswood Preparatory School in Epsom, from where he won a scholarship to Denstone College, near Uttoxeter in 1922. Whilst in the sixth form, Crisp served in and eventually commanded a squad in the Officer's Cadet Force. After leaving school in 1926, Crisp studied journalism at King's College London in London, England, but failed to graduate in 1928, going on to take art classes at Regent Street Polytechnic. Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, to the south of Greater London. ... Denstone College is an private coeducational boarding school in Denstone, Staffordshire, England and a member school of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference. ... Uttoxeter is a small market town in East Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... Kings College London is the largest college of the University of London and one of a number of university institutions founded in England in the early 19th century: only the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have royal charters predating that of Kings. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... The University of Westminster is a university in London, England, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992, which allowed the London Polytechnic (Polytechnic of Central London or PCL ) to rename itself as a university. ...

Around this time, Crisp began frequenting the cafés of Soho – his favourite being The Black Cat in Old Compton Street – meeting other young gay men and rent-boys, and experimenting with make-up and women's clothes. For six months he worked as a prostitute, looking for love, he said in a 1999 interview, but only finding degradation. Soho is an area of central Londons West End, in the borough of the City of Westminster. ... Old Compton Street street-sign Old Compton Street is located in Soho, London, England. ... Rentboy is a chiefly British, Irish and New Zealand term for a young (though often adult), male homosexual prostitute usually though not always of working class origins. ... A male prostitute (or rent boy (UK)/hustler (US)) is a sex worker or prostitute who earns money by providing sexual services to clients. ...

Crisp left home to move to the centre of London at the end of 1930 and, after living in a succession of flats, found a bed-sitting room in Denbeigh Street, where he held court with London's brightest and roughest characters. His outlandish appearance – he wore bright make-up, dyed his long hair crimson, painted his fingernails and wore sandals to display his painted toenails – brought admiration and curiosity from some quarters, but generally attracted hostility and violence from strangers passing him in the streets. 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... A bedsit is a form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room with a shared bathroom and lavatory. ...

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Middle years

Crisp attempted to join the army at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds that he was 'suffering from sexual perversion'. He remained in London during the 1941 Blitz, stocked up on cosmetics, purchased five pounds of Henna and paraded through the blackout, picking up GIs, whose kindness and open-mindedness inspired his love of all things American. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Look up Blitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up henna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... GI or G.I. is a term describing a US soldier or an item of their equipment. ...

In 1940 he moved into the bed-sitting room he would occupy for the next forty years, the first floor apartment at 129 Beaufort Street, London. Here he stayed until he emigrated to the United States in 1981. In the intervening years he never attempted any housework, saying famously in his memoir that the dirt didn't get any worse after the first four years. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He left his job as engineer's tracer in 1942 to become a model in life classes in London and the Home Counties, and continued posing for artists for the next three decades. 'It was like being a civil servant,' he explained in his autobiography, 'except that you were naked.' Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the practise of creating accurate representations of objects for technical, architecture and engineering drawings. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... A life class is a class held in art schools for the purpose of instructing art students on drawing or painting the human figure from live models. ... The phrase Home Counties is used to designate the group of English counties which border or surround London. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...

Crisp had published three short books by the time he was commissioned by the director of Jonathan Cape to complete what would become The Naked Civil Servant. Having heard Crisp interviewed on radio in 1964 he was keen to produce something of his in print. The book appeared in 1968 to respectable reviews. When the book was reprinted in 1975 on the strength of the success of the television version of The Naked Civil Servant, Gay News commented that the book should have been published posthumously. Quentin said this was a polite way of their telling him to drop dead. Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of autobiography by the gay icon Quentin Crisp and a TV movie based on the book. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

Subsequently, Crisp was approached by documentary maker Denis Mitchell to be the subject of a short film in which he was expected to talk about his life, voice his opinions and sit around in his Beaufort Street apartment filing his nails. The broadcast brought enough attention to Crisp and his book that he soon entered talks about a dramatisation of his book starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. John Hurt as Chancellor Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta. ...

Fame

The successful screening of The Naked Civil Servant launched Crisp in another new direction: that of performer and lecturer. He devised a one-man show and began touring the country with it. The first half of the show was an entertaining monologue loosely based on his memoirs, the second half was a question and answer session with Crisp picking the audience's written questions out at random and answering them in an amusing manner. In 1978 Crisp sold out the Duke of York's Theatre in London, then took the show to New York, where he eventually decided to move. His first stay there, in the Hotel Chelsea, coincided with a fire, a robbery, and the death of Nancy Spungen. He set about making arrangements to move to New York permanently and in 1981 he arrived with few possessions and found a small apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Duke of Yorks Theatre in London, UK, opened on 10 September 1892 with Wedding Eve, was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte. ... NY redirects here. ... The Hotel Chelsea. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ...

He continued to perform his one-man show, published groundbreaking books on the importance of contemporrary manners as a means of social inclusivity as opposed to etiquette, which socially excludes and supported himself by accepting social invitations and writing movie reviews and columns for U.S. and UK magazines and newspapers. He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited. As he had done in London, Crisp allowed his phone number to be listed in the Manhattan telephone directory and saw it as his duty to converse with anyone who called him. For the first twenty or so years of owning his own telephone he habitually answered calls with the phrase "Yes, God?" ("Just in case," he once said.) Later on he changed it to "Oh yes?" in a querulous tone of voice.

In addition to his listed phone number, Mr. Crisp would accept dinner invitations from almost anyone. While it was expected that the inviter would pay for dinner, Mr. Crisp did his best to "sing for his supper" by regaling his hosts with wonderful stories and yarns much as he did in his theatre performances. Dinner with Quentin Crisp was said to be one of the best shows in New York.

During the 1980s and 1990s Crisp gained worldwide recognition when Sting dedicated his song "Englishman In New York" to him. Sting wrote the song not long after Crisp moved from London to an apartment in New York's Bowery. Crisp had remarked jokingly to the musician "...that he looked forward to receiving his naturalization papers so that he could commit a crime and not be deported." In late 1986 Sting visited Crisp in his apartment in New York and was told over dinner — and the next three days — what life had been like for a homosexual man in the homophobic Great Britain of the 1920s to the 1960s. Sting was shocked and fascinated at the same time and decided to write the song. For professional wrestler Steve Borden, see Sting (wrestler). ... Englishman In New York is the title of two entirely unrelated songs, one recorded by Godley and Creme and one by Sting. ... The Bowery is a well-known street in Manhattan that more or less marks the boundary between Chinatown and Little Italy on one side and the Lower East Side on the other—running from Chatham Square in the south to Astor Place in the north. ...

Crisp was the subject of a photography portrait by Herb Ritts and was also chronicled in Andy Warhols infamous Diaries. At one point, author William S. Burroughs also launched an unfortunate homophobic verbal assault directed at Crisp and his endeavors which was completely unprovoked and largely denounced.

In his 1995 autobiography "Take It Like A Man" Boy George tells about how he had always felt very close to Crisp during his childhood since he was facing similar problems as a young homosexual living in a homophobic surrounding. George Alan ODowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, Kent) is a pop singer-songwriter. ...

Last years

Crisp remained fiercely independent and unpredictable into old age. He caused controversy and confusion in the gay community by calling AIDS 'a fad', and homosexuality 'a terrible disease', and famously commented disrespectfully on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. However, he was continually in demand from journalists requiring a sound-bite, and throughout the nineties his commentary was sought on any number of topics. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances[2]; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. ...

The year after The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast on British and American television and made both actor John Hurt and Crisp himself into stars, the former nude model & prostitute, now theatre-filling rancoteur, himself made his debut as a film actor in the Royal College of Art's low-budget production of Hamlet (1976). Crisp played Polonius in the 65-minute adaptation of one of Shakespeare's greatest works, in support of Helen Mirren, who doubled as Ophelia and Gertrude. It would be nine years before his next turn before the cameras, in the 1985 film The Bride, which brought him into contact with Sting, who played the lead role of Baron Frankenstein. Sting later wrote a song about Crisp, "Englishman in New York", that includes the lines: The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of autobiography by the gay icon Quentin Crisp and a TV movie based on the book. ... John Hurt as Chancellor Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta. ... Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Dame Helen Mirren DBE (born on July 26, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning English stage, television and film actress. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Category: ... Sting in Budapest, 2000 Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), usually known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. ... This article is about the 1818 novel. ... Englishman In New York is the title of two entirely unrelated songs, one recorded by Godley and Creme and one by Sting. ...

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile, Be yourself no matter what they say.

He appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode "First Light" and as the narrator of director Richard Kwietniowski's short film Ballad of Reading Gaol (1988), based on the immortal poem by Crisp's seminal forefather, Oscar Wilde. Four years later he was cast in a lead role, and got top billing, in the low-buget independent film Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers, which was filmed in New York City, his new home town for over a decade. He played the doorman of a fleabag hotel in a rundown neighborhood quite like the one he lived in. According to Topsy and Bunker director Thomas Massengale, Crisp was delightful to work with, and the 1990s would prove to be his most prolific decade as an actor as more and more directors offered him roles. For the professional wrestler known as The Equalizer, see Bill Dannenhauser. ... The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a famous poem by Oscar Wilde, written after his release from Reading prison on 19 May 1897. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ... Thomas Massengale (born Connecticut, USA, 1958) is a writer/cine-video artist who directed the 1992 feature film Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers who currently resides in London, England. ...

In 1992, he was persuaded by Sally Potter to play Elizabeth I in the film Orlando. Although he found the role taxing, he won acclaim for a dignified and touching performance. Crisp next had an uncredited cameo in the controversial 1993 AIDS drama Philadelphia. He was chosen by Channel Four to deliver the first "Alternative Christmas Speech", a counterpoint to the Queen's Christmas speech, in 1993. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Sally Potter (1949-) is a British film director and writer. ... Elizabeth I redirects here. ... Orlando is a 1992 movie, based on Virginia Woolfs novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Philadelphia is a 1993 film drama revolving around the AIDS epidemic, written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... The Royal Christmas Message (currently coined The Queens Christmas Message) is broadcast by the Sovereign of the Commonwealth Realms to the Commonwealth at Christmas. ...

In 1996 he was among the many people interviewed for the historical documentary on how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality, entitled The Celluloid Closet. In his final volume of memoirs, Resident Alien, published in the same year, Crisp stated that he was close to the end of his life. However, a humorous pact he had made with Penny Arcade to live to one hundred, with ten years off for good behaviour proved prophetic. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Celluloid Closet is the title of a 1995 documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. ... As a literary genre, a memoir (from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Penny Arcade is the stage name of Susana Ventura (born 1950), a performance artist and playwright based in New York City. ... This article or section seems to describe future events as if they have already occurred. ...

In June 1996 he was one of the guest entertainers at the second Pride Scotland festival in Glasgow. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Pride Scotia is Scotlands national LGBT pride festival. ... Glaswegian redirects here. ...

Crisp died shortly before his ninety-first birthday in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, on the eve of a nationwide revival of his one-man show. His body was cremated with a minimum of ceremony, and his ashes flown back to New York and scattered over Manhattan. Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chorlton is a suburb of Manchester. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ... The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ...

Works by Quentin Crisp

• Lettering for Brush and Pen, (1936), Quentin Crisp and A.F. Stuart, Frederick Warne Ltd. Manual on advertising fonts.
• Colour in Display, (1938) Quentin Crisp, 131 pages, The Blandford Press. Manual on the use of colour in window displays.
• All This And Bevin Too (1943) Quentin Crisp, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, Mervyn Peake Society ISBN 0-9506125-0-2. Parable, in verse, about an unemployed kangaroo.
• The Naked Civil Servant, (1968) Quentin Crisp, 222 pages, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-654044-9. Quentin Crisp's witty and wise account of the first half of his life.
• Love Made Easy, (1977) Quentin Crisp, 154 pages, Duckworth, ISBN 0-7156-1188-7. Fantastical, semi-autobiographical novel.
• How to Have a Life Style, (1975), Quentin Crisp, 159 pages, Cecil Woolf Publishing, ISBN 0-900821-83-3. Elegant and insightful essays on charisma and personality.
• Chog: A Gothic Fantasy, (1979), Quentin Crisp, illustrated by Jo Lynch, 165 pages, Methuen, ISBN 0-413-39490-5. Dark novel about the household of a ruinous stately home.
• How to Become a Virgin, (1981) Quentin Crisp, 192 pages, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-638798-5. Second installment of autobiography, describing the fame his first book and its dramatisation brought.
• Doing It With Style, (1981) Quentin Crisp, with Donald Carroll, illustrated by Jonathan Hills, 157 pages, Methuen, ISBN 0-413-47490-9. A guide to thoughtful and stylish living.
• The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp, (1984) Quentin Crisp, edited by Guy Kettelhack, Harper & Row, 140 pages, ISBN 0-06-091178-6. Compilation of Crisp's essays and quotations.
• Manners from Heaven: a divine guide to good behaviour, (1984) Quentin Crisp, with John Hofsess, Hutchinson, ISBN 0-09-155810-7. Insightful instructions for compassionate living.
• How to Go to the Movies (1988) Quentin Crisp, 224 pages, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-05444-0. Movie reviews and essays on film.
• The Gay and Lesbian Quotation Book: a literary companion, (1989) edited by Quentin Crisp, Hale, 185 pages ISBN 0-7090-5605-2. Anthology of gay-related quotes.
• Resident Alien: The New York Diaries (1996) Quentin Crisp, 225 pages, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-638717-9. Diaries and recollections from 1990-94.

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Biographies of Quentin Crisp

• The Stately Homo: a celebration of the life of Quentin Crisp, (2000) edited by Paul Bailey, Bantam, 251 pages, ISBN 0-593-04677-3. Collection of interviews and tributes from those who knew Crisp.
• Quentin Crisp, (2002), Tim Fountain, Absolute Press, 192 pages, ISBN 1-899791-48-5. Biography by dramatist who knew Crisp in the last few years of his life.
• Quentin and Philip, (2002), Andrew Barrow, Macmillan, 559 pages, ISBN 0-333-78051-5. Dual biography of Crisp and his friend Philip O'Connor.

References

• Take It Like A Man, Boy George, Sidgwick & Jackson, 490 pages, ISBN 0-283-99217-4. Autobiography of Boy George.
• In the song "The Ballad of Jack Eric Williams (and Other Three-Named Composers)" from William Finn's song-cycle Elegies.

William Finn (* 28 February 1952), Tony-winning American composer, especially of musicals. ...

Filmography

• Hamlet (1976) .... Polonius
• The Bride.... Dr. Zalhus
• "The Equalizer" .... Ernie Frick (episode, First Light (1987)
• Ballad of Reading Gaol (short) (1988) .... Narrator
• Resident Alien (movie) (1990) (autobiography) .... Himself
• Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers (1992) .... Pat the Doorman
• Orlando (1992) .... Queen Elizabeth I
• Philadelphia (1993) (uncredited) .... Guest at Party
• Red Ribbons (1994) (Video) .... Horace Nightingale III
• Aunt Fannie (1994) (Video) .... Aunt Fannie
• Natural Born Crazies (1994) .... Narrator
• To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) .... New York pageant judge
• Little Red Riding Hood (1997) (voice) .... Narrator
• Famous Again (1998)
• Men Under Water (1998) .... Joseph
• Barriers (1998) .... Nathan
• Homo Heights (1998) .... Malcolm
• American Mod (2002) .... Grandma
• Domestic Strangers (2005) .... Mr. Davis

Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... The Bride is a 1985 film starring Sting, Jennifer Beals and Clancy Brown and is loosely based on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. ... For the professional wrestler known as The Equalizer, see Bill Dannenhauser. ... The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a famous poem by Oscar Wilde, written after his release from Reading prison on 19 May 1897. ... Orlando is a 1992 movie, based on Virginia Woolfs novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. ... Nickname: Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States Commonwealth Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government  - Mayor John F. Street (D) Area  - City 369. ... To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 Hollywood film, starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo. ... Little Red Riding Hood is a 1997 black and white short movie (12 minutes long). ... Barriers is a British television series made by Tyne Tees Television for ITV between 1981 and 1982. ...

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Quentin Crisp

• www.crisperanto.org The Quentin Crisp Archives
• obituary in Salon magazine
• Bibliography including film roles
• 1997 Interview with Spike Magazine
• Portrait Sculpture of Quentin Crisp
• Photo Of Quentin sitting for above portrait
• www.quentincrisp.info Dedicated to the memory of Quentin Crisp