Impostor (disambiguation)

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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

Film

• The Impostor (1911 film), a film by the Thanhouser Company
• The Impostor (1918 film), an American comedy drama film starring Ann Murdock
• The Impostor (1921 film), a film by Robert N. Bradbury
• The Impostor (1926 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent
• The Impostor (1944 film), a film by Julien Duvivier
• The Imposter (1975 American film), a TV film starring Meredith Baxter
• The Imposter (1975 Hong Kong film), a film produced by Shaw Brothers
• The Imposter (1984 film), a TV film featuring Ken Olandt
• The Impostors, a 1998 film by Stanley Tucci
• Impostor (film), a 2001 science fiction film
• The Imposter (2008 film), a Christian film by Dan Millican
• The Imposter (2012 film), a documentary about the 1997 case of Frédéric Bourdin

Literature

• "Impostor" (short story), a science fiction story by Philip K. Dick
• "The Imposter" (short story), a story by Nathanael West
• The Impostor, a novel by Helen McCloy
• Tartuffe (full title: Tartuffe, or the Impostor), a comedic play by Molière

Music

• The Imposter (album), an album by Kevin Max
• The Imposters, a backing band for Elvis Costello
  • The Imposter, a pseudonym used by Costello
• "Imposter", a song by The Moondogs
• "Imposter", a song by Oingo Boingo from Only a Lad

Television

• Impostora (The Impostor), a 2008 Philippine TV series starring Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado
• Impostor (TV series), a 2010 Philippine TV series starring Maja Salvador and Melai Cantiveros
• "The Impostors", an episode of the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds
• The Imposters, a hidden-camera television pilot co-starring comedian Mal Sharpe
• The Imposter, a syndication title for the DuMont TV series Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–54)

Linguistics

• Imposters, a book written by Chris Collins and Paul Postal (2012, MIT Press) describing a class of third person DPs used to refer to the author or addressee

See also

• All pages beginning with "Impostor"
• Impostor syndrome, when a person is unable to internalize accomplishments
• Masih ad-Dajjal ("The Impostor Messiah"), an evil figure in Islamic eschatology
• The Imposture, a play by James Shirley