Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp

Born: December 25, 1908
Died: November 21, 1999
in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK

Movies for Quentin Crisp...

Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Title: Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967. After decades in the Downtown art world, Penny’s personal relationships with dozens of outrageous characters, from the world famous to the fascinatingly obscure, led to the creation of the Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 1950s to the present. These half-hour biographies have broadcast weekly on Time Warner Manhattan Cable Television for 20 years. Beyond Queer is a feature documentary compiled from these television interviews.
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Queerama
Title: Queerama
Character: Narrator (archive footage)
Released: June 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Created from a treasure trove of archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century – a century of incredible change.
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Uncle Denis?
Title: Uncle Denis?
Released: April 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Born Denis Charles Pratt, Quentin Crisp was a writer, an artist's model, an actor and a raconteur. He became a gay icon after the publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant in 1968, and even more of a celebrity when the book was filmed in 1975 with John Hurt in the starring role. This documentary asks how such a public figure - and a queer icon - fits into ideas of family, and in particular into his own family. Through an exploration of photographs, home movies and interviews with relatives, UNCLE DENIS? reflects on how traditions of familial memory-making intersect with the more public image-fashioning of one of the twentieth century's most determinedly self-made men.
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Rescued from the Closet
Title: Rescued from the Closet
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2001
Type: Movie
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
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The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp
Title: The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Quentin Crisp was a writer, raconteur, social rebel, and "professional being". He was nearly 91 when he died of heart failure in 1999, and his death powerfully affected those who loved him. In this portrait, Tim Fountain (Crisp's biographer, and author of the play RESIDENT ALIEN) interviews friends and family of Crisp, to learn something of the significance of his death, and the "enigma of his life".
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Meeting Mr. Crisp
Title: Meeting Mr. Crisp
Character: Self
Released: August 13, 2000
Type: Movie
March 1999. Tim Fountain and Bette Bourne meet Quentin Crisp in his famously filthy New York apartment for one of his very last interviews before his sudden death in England a few months later during Tim and Bette's production of Resident Alien, a play based on Quentin's life and writing at the Bush Theatre, London.
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Homo Heights
Title: Homo Heights
Character: Malcolm
Released: February 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Gay guru and fading icon Malcolm wants to escape from Homo Heights town, which is ruled by drag queen and leader of gay mafia Maria Callous.
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Little Red Riding Hood
Title: Little Red Riding Hood
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 16, 1997
Type: Movie
A black comedy version of the classic tale.
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The Celluloid Closet
Title: The Celluloid Closet
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1996
Type: Movie
This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Character: NY Pageant Judge
Released: September 7, 1995
Type: Movie
A cross country trip to Hollywood is cut short by an unreliable engine & an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement. With the power of drag, three self proclaimed career-girls bring a bit of much needed beauty to rural middle America!
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Red Ribbons
Title: Red Ribbons
Released: February 13, 1994
Type: Movie
The colleagues, collaborators, and former lovers of a recently deceased theater personality gather together for an impromptu memorial service in this drama featuring the final full-length feature performance of actor Quentin Crisp. Heartfelt pathos blends with over-the-top comedy when the driving force behind a controversial theater group dies. Frank David Niles was the heart and soul of the "In Your Face" theater company, and now his friends and colleagues are determined to give him a proper send off. In addition to marking Crisp's final full-length feature performance, Red Ribbins also marks the return to the big screen for former The Devil in Miss Jones star Georgina Spelvin.
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Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
Title: Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Nelson Sullivan who was the unofficial video documentary filmmaker of the late 1980s downtown New York nightlife and LGBTQ+ community, with extensive archival segments directed by Sullivan himself.
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My Lunch With Quentin Crisp
Title: My Lunch With Quentin Crisp
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Diva filmmaker June Lang's documentary of her and Mr. Quentin Crisp having lunch at her apartment.
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Philadelphia
Title: Philadelphia
Character: Guest at Party (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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Naked in New York
Title: Naked in New York
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
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Orlando
Title: Orlando
Character: Queen Elizabeth I
Released: December 11, 1992
Type: Movie
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
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Resident Alien
Title: Resident Alien
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Title: Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Character: Mr. Isabella
Released: January 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
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Summer of Love
Title: Summer of Love
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Produced in collaboration with MICA-TV, Summer of Love is a public service announcement produced for the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Featuring The B-52’s, David Byrne, Allen Ginsburg, Quentin Crisp, John Kelly, and others.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Character: Narrator
Released: November 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Ernie Frick
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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The Bride
Title: The Bride
Character: Dr Zahlus
Released: August 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
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Chelsea Hotel
Title: Chelsea Hotel
Released: January 3, 1981
Type: Movie
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy Warhol and William Burroughs having dinner; Quentin Crisp pontificating in a blue rinse hairdo on his balcony and Nico forgetting what she is talking about halfway through a dour rendition of "Chelsea Girls". A number of lesser-known characters also appear, linked together by a tour guide walking around the building and some sub-Shining sequences of a child cycling round the landings on a rickety tricycle.
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An Evening with Quentin Crisp
Title: An Evening with Quentin Crisp
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Polonius
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.
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The Naked Civil Servant
Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Himself
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.
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Quentin Crisp
Title: Quentin Crisp
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Five years before the TV adaptation of The Naked Civil Servant made him a household name, Quentin Crisp - dandy, raconteur, life model and former prostitute - welcomed celebrated filmmaker Denis Mitchell into his dusty London bedsit. Crisp recalls the violence and fascination his extraordinary appearance once provoked, offers tips on avoiding housework and subsisting on a diet of stout and meal replacement powder, and ruminates on life as a "minority within a minority - an effeminate homosexual".
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Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways
Title: Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways
Character: Stationmaster
Released: June 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.