Doorman

A doorman, also known as doorkeeper, is someone who is posted at, and often guards, a door, or by extension another entrance (specific similar terms exist, e.g. Gatekeeper, Hall porter). Specific uses include:

Professions

• Doorman (profession)
• Bouncer (doorman), mainly security
• Usher, often ceremonial
• Ostiary, ecclesiastical minor order
• Doorkeeper (Houses of Parliament), badged officer of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament
• Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives

Books

• The Doorman (El Portero), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas
• Doorman (comics), a Marvel Comics fictional superhero

Film and TV

• The Doorman (film), a 2005 film starring Dominique Vandenberg
• The Doorman (2007 film), Peter Bogdanovich
• "The Doorman" (Seinfeld)
• Dead as a Doorman, a 1986 film starring Bradley Whitford

Music

• "Doorman" (song), a rock song by Stereophonics from the 2005 album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Other uses

• Karel Doorman, Dutch Rear Admiral who died in 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea
• SS Doorman, a Second World War Dutch merchant ship
• Doorman (Kunduz), a village in Kunduz Province in Afghanistan

See also

• Chancellor, originally posted at a door post