The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp (2001)

01/01/2001 (GB) • 23m

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".


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

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Keywords

interview

biography

last will and testament

writer

lgbt

englishman abroad

englishman

gay theme

nonagenarian

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