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[[Image:nakedcivilservant.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The cover of [[The Naked Civil Servant]], by [[Quentin Crisp]].]]
'''''The Naked Civil Servant''''' is the title of two biographical works, both based on the life of [[Quentin Crisp]]:
'''''The Naked Civil Servant''''' is the first volume of [[autobiography]] by the [[gay icon]] [[Quentin Crisp]] and a [[TV movie]] based on the book.
The book started life as a radio interview with Crisp in [[1964]] conducted by his friend and fellow eccentric, [[Philip O'Connor]], which was heard by the then managing director of [[Jonathan Cape]] commissioned by him and appeared in [[1968]].


*[[The Naked Civil Servant (book)|''The Naked Civil Servant'' (book)]] is Crisp's 1968 autobiographical book
The TV movie was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[television]] drama, 90 minutes long and produced by [[Thames Television]] for the [[ITV]] network, with [[John Hurt]] playing Crisp from youth to middle age. It was directed by [[Jack Gold]], written by [[Philip Mackie]] and produced by [[Verity Lambert]], and was originally transmitted on [[December 17]] [[1975]].
*[[The Naked Civil Servant (film)|''The Naked Civil Servant'' (film)]] is a 1975 television film based on the book


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For his performance, Hurt won the [[British Academy Television Award]] for Best Actor in [[1976]]. The production won the [[1976]] [[Prix Italia]] and in [[2000]] was placed fourth in a poll of industry professionals conducted by the [[British Film Institute]] to find the [[100 Greatest British Television Programmes]] of the [[20th century]].
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==External links==
* {{imdb title | id=0073438 | title=The Naked Civil Servant}}
*[http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/prog.php?id=4 Entry on the BFI TV 100 site]
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/499175/index.html British Film Institute Screen Online]


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Latest revision as of 18:24, 12 April 2019

The Naked Civil Servant is the title of two biographical works, both based on the life of Quentin Crisp: