The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp

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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Cast

Quentin Crisp

Self

Tim Fountain

Self - Presenter

Bette Bourne

Self

Penny Arcade

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Michelle Goyocolea-Crawford

Self

Frances Ramsey

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Guy Kettlehack

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Phillip Ward

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