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The Impostor (1921 Film)
An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else. Impostor(s), Imposter(s), The Impostor(s), or The Imposter(s) may also refer to: Computing * Impostor (computer graphics) or sprite, an image or animation integrated into a larger scene * Impostors, a fictional alien race and the antagonists of the 2018 social deduction game ''Among Us'' Film * , a film by George Abbott George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. Early years Abbott was born in Forestville, New Yo ... and Dell Henderson * ''Impostor'' (1921 film), a German silent film * ''The Impostor'' (1921 film), a film by Robert N. Bradbury * The Impostor (1926 film), ''The Impostor'' (1926 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent * The Impostor (1927 film), ''The Impostor'' (1927 film), a German silent film * The Impostor (1944 film), ''The Impostor'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impostor
An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise. Their objective is usually to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but also often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement. Notable impostors False nationality claims * Princess Caraboo (1791–1864), Englishwoman who pretended to be a princess from a fictional island * Korla Pandit (1921–1998), African-American pianist/organist who pretended to be from India * George Psalmanazar (1679–1763), who claimed to be from Formosa False minority national identity claims * Joseph Boyden (born 1966) Canadian writer who falsely claimed First Nations ancestry * H. G. Carrillo (1960–2020), American writer and assistant professor of English at George Washington University who claimed to be a Cuban immigrant despite having been born in Detroit to American parents. * Asa Earl Carter (1925–1979), who under the alias of supposedly Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Kramer
Oscar Kramer (25 May 1935 – 7 April 2010) was an Argentine film producer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He worked in the cinema of Argentina when he was young. In the 1970s he lived in Antwerp, Belgium, where he worked in the diamond industry. After a few decades, in the 1980s he returned to Argentina with his wife and son to direct films. Filmography * '' Eversmile, New Jersey'' (1989) * '' Alambrado'' (1991) a.k.a. ''Barbed Wire'' * ''La Peste'' (1992) a.k.a. ''The Plague'' * ''De eso no se habla'' (1993) a.k.a. ''I Don't Want to Talk About It'' * '' Corazón iluminado'' (1996) a.k.a. ''Foolish Heart'' * ''The Tango Lesson'' (1997) * '' El Impostor'' (1997) a.k.a. ''The Impostor'' * ''Plata quemada'' (2000) a.k.a. ''Burnt Money'' * ''Kamchatka'' (2002) * '' El Último tren'' (2002) a.k.a. ''The Last Train'' * '' Carandiru'' (2003) * ''El Perro'' (2004) a.k.a. ''Bombón: El Perro'' * ''Tiempo de valientes'' (2005) * ''El Camino de San Diego'' (2006) a.k.a. ''The Road to San D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartuffe
''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; french: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. History Molière performed his first version of ''Tartuffe'' in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/''Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée''), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably due to the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, who was the King's confessor and had been his tutor. While the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête: although it was found to be extremely diverting, the king recognized so much conformity between those that a true devotion leads on the path to heave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If I Were For Real (play)
''If I Were for Real'', also translated as ''The Impostor'', ''If I Were Real'', and ''What If I Really Were?'', is a 1979 Chinese satirical play in 6 acts (with an additional prologue and epilogue) written by Shanghai-based playwright Sha Yexin and actors Li Shoucheng (李守成) and Yao Mingde (姚明德). The play is inspired by the March 1979 arrest of Zhang Quanlong (张泉龙), a young man who impersonated the son of Li Da, deputy of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department. As the play exposed corruption in the establishment and lampooned the impostor's "victims", there was considerable debate among the literary circles on whether it should be performed publicly. In January 1980, Communist Party of China's propaganda chief Hu Yaobang put an end to the debates by openly criticizing the play as failing "to reflect the true spirit and moral perception of Chinese youth during the New Period", effectively banning its public performances. Background In 1979, playwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Works By Carlo Goldoni
The following is a list of works by Venetian playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793). Tragedies * ''Amalasunta'', burned by Goldoni after its premiere (1733) * ''Belisario'' (1734) * ''Rosmonda'' (1734) * '' Griselda'' (1734) * ''Enrico re di Sicilia'' (1736) * ''Gli amori di Alessandro Magno'' (1759) * ''Enea nel Lazio'' (1760) * ''Nerone'' (1760) * ''Artemisia'' (never performed) Tragicomedies *''Belisario'' (1734) *''Don Giovanni Tenorio'' o sia ''Il dissoluto'', "The Dissolute" (1735) *''Rinaldo di Montalbano'' (1736) *''Giustino'' (17??) *''La sposa persiana'', "The Persian Wife", in verse (1753) *''Ircana in Julfa'', "Ircana in Jaffa" (17??) *''Ircana in Ispaan'', "Ircana in Isfahan" (17??) *''La peruviana'', "The Peruvian Woman" (17??) *''La bella selvaggia'', "The Savage Beauty" (17??) *''La dalmatina'', "The Dalmatian Woman" (1758) *''Gli amori di Alessandro Magno'', "The Loves of Alexander the Great" (17??) *''Artemisia'', "Artemisia" (17??) *''Enea nel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of '' El País'' and the Sunday supplement. He worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He is one of a group of well-known Spanish novelists, which includes Julio Llamazares, Andrés Trapiello, and Jesus Ferrero, who have published fiction in the vein of "historical memory", focusing on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist State. ''Soldiers of Salamis'' (translated by Anne McLean) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004, and McLean's translations of his novels ''The Speed of Light'' and ''Outlaws'' were shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2008 and 2016 respectively. In 2014–15, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impostors (play)
''The Impostors'' is a comedy play by Richard Cumberland. It was first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in January 1789.Nicoll p.127 The plot closely resembled that of ''The Beaux' Stratagem'' by George Farquhar. The original Drury Lane Cast included John Palmer as Lord Janus, Robert Baddeley as Sir Solomon Sapient, Francis Aickin as Captain George Sapient, William Barrymore as Sir Charles Freemantle, Richard Suett as Oliver and Richard Wroughton as Polycarp, Jane Pope as Mrs Dorothy and Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the mother of ten illegitimate children by ... as Eleanor. References Bibliography * Hogan, C.B (ed.) ''The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume V''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1968. * Mudford, William. ''The Life of Richard Cumberland''. Sherwood, Neely & Jones, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen McCloy
Helen McCloy (June 6, 1904 New York – December 1, 1994 Woodstock, NY), pseudonym Helen Clarkson, was an American mystery writer, whose series character Dr. Basil Willing debuted in ''Dance of Death'' (1938). Willing believes, that "every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints, and he can't wear gloves to hide them." He appeared in 13 of McCloy's novels and in several of her short stories. McCloy often used the theme of doppelganger, but in the end of the story she showed a psychological or realistic explanation for the seemingly supernatural events. Biography Helen McCloy was born in New York City. Her mother was the writer Helen Worrell McCloy and father, William McCloy, was the longtime managing editor of the ''New York Evening Sun''. She was educated at the Brooklyn Friends School, run by Brooklyn's Quaker community. In 1923 she went to France and studied at the Sorbonne. After finishing her studies, she worked for William Randolph Hearst's Universal News Service (1927 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Imposter (short Story)
"The Imposter" is a short story written by Nathanael West in the early 1930s; it was not published in West's lifetime and first appeared in ''The New Yorker'' on June 2, 1997, and in the Library of America edition of West's collected work: ''Novels & Other Writings''. The story, told by a struggling writer and set among the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, deals with a failed sculptor named Beano Walsh, who claims he cannot create his art since the anatomy books are all wrong. Plot summary The narrator, a struggling writer, knows that to be accepted among American expatriates in Paris in the 1920s, he has to exhibit a certain madness. Since all the obvious forms of craziness have become passé, he decides to exaggerate normality: He is an instant hit and gets invited to all the parties. At one event he meets Beano Walsh, who worked on a coal barge in the East River before he got a scholarship from Oscar Hahn to study sculpture in Paris. Since the narrator is broke, Beano in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impostor (novel)
''The Impostor'' () is a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a priest who loses his faith and sets out to rediscover his soul together with an elderly cleric. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote in 1999: "Austere, intellectually challenging and, occasionally, achingly poignant in the tradition of French-Catholic mysticism, the novel achieves a certain quiet spiritual triumph, a faith-at-low-ebb form made popular in the English-speaking world by ''The Power and the Glory''." ''Kirkus Reviews ''Kirkus Reviews'' (or ''Kirkus Media'') is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980). The magazine is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fic ...'' called the book "An often maddeningly discursive work that, nevertheless, accumulates great power in a devastating portrayal of a tormented soul that itself becomes a tormentor." References {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impostor (short Story)
"Impostor" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Astounding SF'' magazine in June, 1953. Plot Spence Olham, a member of a team designing an offensive weapon to destroy invading aliens known as the Outspacers, is confronted by a colleague and accused by security officer Major Peters of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth's defenses. The impostor's ship was damaged and has crashed just outside the city. The android is supposed to detonate a planet-destroying bomb on the utterance of a deadly code phrase. Olham, in an attempt to clear his name and prove his humanity, manages to escape his captors and return to Earth after they fail to kill him on the Moon. Upon reaching Earth, Olham contacts his wife, Mary, but is soon ambushed by security officers waiting for him by his house. Out of options and with Major Peters' forces closing in, Olham decides to prove he is a human by finding the crashed Outspacer spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Imposter (2012 Film)
''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's family, as well as archive television news footage and reenacted dramatic sequences. Summary The story begins in a phone box in Spain where Bourdin phones the police saying he is a tourist who has found a young boy in a phone box and the police should collect him. He is taken to a children's home and says he is American. He asks to be left in an office overnight to call his family. There he uses records in the office to contact various sheriff's offices in the USA asking about missing children. Through one lead he gets the name Nicholas Barclay. He then calls to another US agency claiming to be a Spanish official and asking to fax inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
