Man in Black

The Man in Black may refer to:

People

• Johnny Cash, American country and western singer, who regularly performed dressed in all black
• Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver, who throughout the late 1980s and 1990s drove a black #3 Chevrolet sponsored by GM Goodwrench
• Valentine Dyall, British radio presenter and actor
• Tacchi Venturi , papal liaison to Mussolini

Entertainment

Music

• Man in Black (album), a 1971 album by Johnny Cash
• "Man in Black" (song), a Johnny Cash song on the 1971 album of the same name

Other media

• Man in Black (film), a 1949 British thriller film
• Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words, Johnny Cash's autobiography
• The Man in Black a ballet by James Kudelka
• The Man in Black, a BBC Radio 4 Extra horror series on starring Mark Gatiss

Fictional characters

• The Man in Black (Lost) (also known as "the smoke monster" and similar), the unnamed antagonist of the TV series Lost
• Randall Flagg, a character featured in several of Stephen King's novels
• Dr. Terence Wynn, a character in the Halloween film series
• Colonel Douglas Mortimer, played by Lee Van Cleef, in For a Few Dollars More
• The earliest example, Chaucer's Man in Black, from The Book of the Duchess

Other uses

• An informal nickname for referees in association football, referring to the traditional match official's kit

See also

• The Traveller in Black, a collection of stories by John Brunner
• Men in Black (disambiguation)