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QUENTIN CRISP - Gay icon of yesteryear.
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt) was an English writer and raconteur. Other professions included rent boy, naked life-class model and National Treasure.
Crisp was known for his outlandish appearance – he wore bright make-up, dyed his long hair crimson, painted his fingernails and wore sandals to display his painted toe-nails – bringing admiration and curiosity from some quarters, but hostility and violence from others.
Quentin Crisp attempted to join the British army at the outbreak of World War II, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds of "sexual perversion". Instead he remained in London during the 1941 Blitz and helped out the war effort by picking up G.I.s, whose kindness and open-mindedness inspired his love of all things American (where he later lived). He worked as an engineer's tracer but in 1942 left that position to become a model in life classes in London and the Home Counties. Crisp continued posing for artists for the next three decades. "It was like being a civil servant," he explained in his autobiography, "except that you were naked." He was immortalized in the television film THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT starring John Hurt which was based on his own book of the same name.
STEVE NALLON'S VOICE BOX is a collection of impressions and characters from the voice artist and actor. The full range of choices can be accessed by clicking the yellow box icon THE VOICE BOX on his website nallon.com - there is also a CONTACT icon at the top of the screen on this site.
The voice recordings have been put together by STUDIO HOUSE. Most formats are available, including MP3 and WAV at high quality recording rates of 48khz and 24bit. The images were created by PROFILE DESIGN.
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QUENTIN CRISP - Gay icon of yesteryear.
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt) was an English writer and raconteur. Other professions included rent boy, naked life-class model and National Treasure.
Crisp was known for his outlandish appearance – he wore bright make-up, dyed his long hair crimson, painted his fingernails and wore sandals to display his painted toe-nails – bringing admiration and curiosity from some quarters, but hostility and violence from others.
Quentin Crisp attempted to join the British army at the outbreak of World War II, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds of "sexual perversion". Instead he remained in London during the 1941 Blitz and helped out the war effort by picking up G.I.s, whose kindness and open-mindedness inspired his love of all things American (where he later lived). He worked as an engineer's tracer but in 1942 left that position to become a model in life classes in London and the Home Counties. Crisp continued posing for artists for the next three decades. "It was like being a civil servant," he explained in his autobiography, "except that you were naked." He was immortalized in the television film THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT starring John Hurt which was based on his own book of the same name.
STEVE NALLON'S VOICE BOX is a collection of impressions and characters from the voice artist and actor. The full range of choices can be accessed by clicking the yellow box icon THE VOICE BOX on his website nallon.com - there is also a CONTACT icon at the top of the screen on this site.
The voice recordings have been put together by STUDIO HOUSE. Most formats are available, including MP3 and WAV at high quality recording rates of 48khz and 24bit. The images were created by PROFILE DESIGN.
