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Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp

The Naked Civil Servant

Image: Front cover of the video cassette release of the film The Naked Civil Servant.

Released : 1975

Stars: John Hurt ( Quentin didn't actually appear in this film, but he did do a brief intro at the beginning)

Director: Jack Gold

Film version of his autobiography.

Publicity still from film.

Quentin Crisp and John Hurt Image: Publicity still from the film with Quentin Crisp and John Hurt.

Image: Publicity still from the film with Quentin Crisp and John Hurt.

When we say of somebody else that he is boring, it is ourselves that we criticize because we have not made ourselves into that wide-open vessel into which people can pour their entire life.
Nothing is boring except for a lie." - Quentin Crisp