The Naked Civil Servant (film) PBS when Thames Television and WOR-TV exchanged programming for one week. In 2000, the film was placed fourth in a poll by industry professionals to find the BFI TV 100 of the 20th century, and was the highest ITV production on the list. The film was released on DVD in 2005. In 2009, Hurt reprised the role of Quentin Crisp in "An Englishman in New York", which covered the latter years of Crisp's life spent in Manhattan. The Naked Civil Servant (film) The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 biographical film based on Quentin Crisp's 1968 book of the same
John Sainty (civil servant) National Archives. John Sainty (civil servant) Sir John Christopher Sainty, KCB, FSA (born 1934 in London, England) is a retired British civil servant who was Clerk of the Parliaments from 1983 to 1990. Sir John is the son of Christopher Lawrence Sainty, of Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex, and his first wife Nancy Lee Miller, of Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois. He is married to Frances Sherlock and has three sons: Sir John is also the elder half-brother of the art dealer and historian of Orders of Knighthood Guy Stair Sainty. He was educated at Winchester College, and New College, Oxford.