A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

Author, stage performer and actor                          

Selected Works:

Filmography:

Hamlet - 1976 - Polonius
The Bride - Dr. Zalhus
The Equalizer - Ernie Frick - episode, First Light - 1987
Ballad of Reading Gaol - short - 1988 - Narrator
Resident Alien - movie - 1990 - autobiography - Himself
Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers - 1992 - Pat the Doorman
Orlando - 1992 - Queen Elizabeth I
Philadelphia - 1993 - uncredited - Guest at Party
Red Ribbons - 1994 - Video - Horace Nightingale III
Aunt Fannie - 1994 - Video - Aunt Fannie
Natural Born Crazies - 1994 - Narrator
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar - 1995 - New York pageant judge
Taylor Mead Unleashed- documentary - 1996 Himself. Sebastian Piras director
Little Red Riding Hood - 1997 - voice - Narrator
Famous Again - 1998
Men Under Water - 1998 - Joseph
Barriers - 1998 - Nathan
Homo Heights - 1998 - Malcolm
American Mod - 2002 - Grandma
Domestic Strangers - 2005 - Mr. Davis

Books:

Lettering for Brush and Pen - 1936 Quentin Crisp and AF Stuart Manual on advertising fonts
Colour in Display - 1938 Quentin Crisp Manual on the use of colour in window displays
All This And Bevin Too - 1943 Quentin Crisp illustrated by Mervyn Peake Parable in verse about an unemployed kangaroo
The Naked Civil Servant - 1968
Love Made Easy - 1977 Fantastical semi - autobiographical novel
How to Have a Life Style - 1975 Elegant and insightful essays on charisma and personality
Chog: A Gothic Fantasy - 1979 illustrated by Jo Lynch Dark novel about the household of a ruinous stately home
How to Become a Virgin - 1981 Second installment of autobiography describing the fame his first book and its dramatisation brought
Doing It With Style - 1981 with Donald Carroll illustrated by Jonathan Hills 157 pages A guide to thoughtful and stylish living
The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp - 1984 Compilation of Crisp's essays and quotations
Manners from Heaven: a divine guide to good behaviour - 1984 with John Hofsess Insightful instructions for compassionate living
How to Go to the Movies - 1988 Movie reviews and essays on film
The Gay and Lesbian Quotation Book: a literary companion - 1989 edited by Quentin Crisp Anthology of gay - related quotes
Resident Alien: The New York Diaries - 1996 Diaries and recollections from 1990 - 94
Dusty Answers - unpublished edited by Phillip Ward Quentin Crisp's final collection of writings which will include his collected poetry and script of his one man show.                          

Mother Frances Phillips
Father Charles Pratt - Quentin being the fourth child.                          

Crisp attempted to join the army at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds that he was 'suffering from sexual perversion'. He remained in London during the 1941 Blitz, stocked up on cosmetics, purchased five pounds of henna and paraded through the blackout, picking up GIs, whose kindness and open-mindedness inspired his love of all things American.                          

Changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties.

Crisp attempted to join the army at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds that he was 'suffering from sexual perversion'. He remained in London during the 1941 Blitz, stocked up on cosmetics, purchased five pounds of henna and paraded through the blackout, picking up GIs, whose kindness and open-mindedness inspired his love of all things American.