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
Alexander Maxwell (civil servant) Alexander Maxwell (civil servant) Sir Alexander Maxwell, (9 March 1880 – 1 July 1963) was a British civil servant notable for his service as Permanent Under-Secretary of State to the Home Office from 1938 to 1948. Maxwell was a hard worker and a superb administrator who was well regarded by his department and was particularly interested in civil liberty, even during the height of the Second World War, and also delinquency. Alexander Maxwell was born at Sharston Mount, Northen Etchells, Cheshire, on 9 March 1880, the eldest son of the Revd Joseph Matthew Townsend Maxwell, a Congregational minister, and his