The Great Impostor (1960)
Will the Real Fred Demara Please Stand Up??
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
- Date of release
- 1960-12-23
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Robert Mulligan
Casting
- Tony Curtis — Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. / Martin Donner / Dr. Gilbert / Ben. W. Stone / Dr. Joseph Mornay / Robert Boyd Hammnd
- Karl Malden — Father Devlin
- Edmond O'Brien — Capt. Glover - HMCS Cayuga
- Arthur O'Connell — Warden J.B. Chandler
- Gary Merrill — Pa Demara
- Joan Blackman — Lt. Catherine Lacey
- Raymond Massey — Abbott Donner
- Robert Middleton — R.C. Brown
- Jeanette Nolan — Ma Demara
- Sue Ane Langdon — Eulalie Chandler
- Larry Gates — Cardinal
- Mike Kellin — Clifford Thompson
Interesting facts
The Great Impostor is a 1961 American comedy-drama film based on the story of an impostor named Ferdinand Waldo Demara. Loosely based on Robert Crichton's 1959 biography of the same name, it stars Tony Curtis in the title role and was directed by Robert Mulligan. The film only generally follows Demara's real-life exploits, and is much lighter in tone than the book on which it is based.
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