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 (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

• The Imposter (novel), a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos
• Impostor (short story), a science fiction story by Philip K. Dick
• The Impostor, a novel by Javier Cercas about Enric Marco
• "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
• L'impostore, "The Impostor", a play by Carlo Goldoni
• If I Were for Real (play), a 1979 Chinese play, also translated as The Impostor

Music

• The Imposter (album), an album by Kevin Max
• The Impostor (Banjo Concerto), written by Béla Fleck
• 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
• "Impostor", a song by The Doubleclicks

Television

• L'Imposteur ("The Imposter"), a 2016 Québec television series starring Marc-André Grondin and directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon
• Impostora (The Impostor), a 2008 Philippine television series starring Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado
• Impostor (TV series), a 2010 Philippine TV series starring Maja Salvador and Melai Cantiveros
• Imposters (TV series), a 2017 American television series on Bravo
• "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)

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