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
James Wilson (civil servant) James Wilson (civil servant) Sir James Wilson, (27 February 1853 – 22 September 1926) was a British civil servant in British India, where he spent most of his career in the Punjab. After his return to the United Kingdom he was a senior civil servant under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, representing the country at the International Institute of Agriculture. He was also an author of books on dialects and folklore, in India and in Scotland. Wilson was born in 1853, the son of Rev. John Wilson, DD, minister and historian of Dunning, Perthshire. He was educated at Perth