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The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp (2001)

Directed by Nathan Evans

Overview

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”.

Length 23 minutes

Actors

Quentin Crisp | Tim Fountain | Bette Bourne | Penny Arcade | Michelle Goyocolea-Crawford | Frances Ramsey | Guy Kettlehack | Phillip Ward