NAKED CIVIL SERVANT, THE (TV)
Summary
This biographical drama concerns the life of Quentin Crisp, a British gay man. This dramatization of Crisp's autobiography covers over fifty years in his life and focuses on incidents that reflect changes in society's view of homosexuality. Highlights include the following events: Crisp's experiments with transvestism; Crisp becomes a "naked civil servant," also known as an artist's model; Crisp, living alone, relects on the problems of his friends: a young art student becomes a nun and a Polish man goes mad and hangs himself. As the program concludes, Crisp recalls people who were kind to him and marvels at the progressive contemporary era.
(This program was telecast on the Thames network in England on Dec. 17, 1975.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Blake Byrne.
Details
- NETWORK: WOR-TV
- DATE: September 7, 1976 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:13:17
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0985
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Docudrama; Gays - Drama; Thames Collection; LGBT Collection
- SERIES RUN: WOR (New York, NY) - TV, 1976
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Verity Lambert … Executive Producer
- Barry Hanson … Producer
- Jack Gold … Director
- Philip Mackie … Writer
- Quentin Crisp … Based on the autobiography of, Host
- Carl Davis … Music by
- John Hurt … Cast, Quentin Crisp
- Liz Gebhardt … Cast, Art Student
- Patricia Hodge … Cast, Ballet Teacher
- Stanley Lebor … Cast, Mr. Pole
- Katharine Schofield … Cast, Mrs. Pole
- Colin Higgins … Cast, Thumbnails
- John Rhys-Davies … Cast, Barndoor
- Stephen Johnstone … Cast, Young Quentin
- Antonia Pemberton … Cast, Mrs. Longhurst
- Lloyd Lamble … Cast, Mr. Crisp
- Joan Ryan … Cast, Mrs. Crisp
- Frank Forsyth … Cast, Family Doctor
- Shane Briant … Cast, Norma
- Ron Pember … Cast, Black Cat Proprietor
- Roger Lloyd-Pack … Cast, Liz
- Adrian Shergold … Cast, Gloria
- Derek West … Cast, Freda
- David Fielder … Cast, June
- Dennis Chinnery … Cast, Business Man
- John Flanagan … Cast, 1st Policeman
- David Goodland … Cast, 2nd Policeman
- Dennis Blanch … Cast, 1st Rough
- Billy Colvill … Cast, 2nd Rough
- Anthony Heaton … Cast, Quentin's Rough
- Ritchie Stewart … Cast, Bus Conductor
- Jiggy Bhore … Cast, Receptionist
- Graham Armitage … Cast, Mr. Dunsmore
- James Marcus … Cast, Clerkenwell Tough
- John Malcolm … Cast, Taxi Driver
- Michael Bangerter … Cast, Club Manager
- Julian Fox … Cast, 1st Dancer
- Barry McGinn … Cast, 2nd Dancer
- Janet Chappell … Cast, Neurotic Girl
- John Forbes-Robertson … Cast, Civil Servant
- Frederick Treves … Cast, Detective-Inspector
- Anthony Howard … Cast, Lord Alcohol
- Annette Badland … Cast, Tap-Dancing Pupil
- Anna Wing … Cast, Old Lady
- Dominic Allan … Cast, Army Sergeant
- John Crocker … Cast, Army Doctor
- Richard Butler … Cast, Senior Doctor
- John Cater … Cast, Psychiatrist
- Harvey Ashby … Cast, Actor
- Don Fellows … Cast, 1st GI
- Bob Sherman … Cast, 2nd GI
- Susan Wooldridge … Cast, Model
- Christopher Coll … Cast, Art Master
- Peter Stroule … Cast, 1st Plain Clothes Man
- Robert Gary … Cast, 2nd Plain Clothes Man
- Charles Pemberton … Cast, Court PC
- David Trevina … Cast, Clerk
- Martin Boddey … Cast, Magistrate
- Ernest Jennings … Cast, Court Attendant
- Phil Daniels … Cast, 1st Boy
- Raymond Boal … Cast, 2nd Boy
- Duncan Faber … Cast, Sailor
- Alex Leppard … Cast, Sailor
- Peter Walshe … Cast, Sailor
- James Hall … Cast, Sailor
- Michael Watkins … Cast, Sailor