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	Ferdinand Waldo Demara - Definition, explanation
		Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), known as "The great impostor", masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens.
		Demara was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1921.
		Demara died in 1982 due to heart failure.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fe/ferdinand_waldo_demara.php (529 words)

	Ferdinand Waldo Demara
		Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), known as "The great impostor", who masqueraded many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens.
		Demara was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1921.
		Demara was apparently honorably discharged and moved back to the USA.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fe/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara.html (415 words)

	F. W. Demara Jr.
		Demara’s career as an imposter spanned three decades and included a bizarre variety of pseudo-identities.
		Demara’s book was to have been a cautionary tale against leading the sort of life he had led.
		According to his friend and physician, Dr. John Zane, Demara died a lonely and deeply depressed man. Zane described him as a “broken man who felt his talents were wasted”.
	www.lawrencefreelibrary.org /english/demara.htm (343 words)

	The Great Impostor \| Movie Synopsis Available, Read the Plot of the Film Online \| VH1.com
		The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis.
		Karl Malden co-stars as Father Devlin, the young DeMara's spiritual advisor, while Joan Blackman is the nominal (and hardly visible) heroine.
		The real Ferdinand DeMara (if indeed there was a real Ferdinand DeMara) can be seen in a supporting role in the 1960 melodrama The Hypnotic Eye.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/14252/plot.jhtml (166 words)

	Demara
		Demara had no formal training in any of his many adopted careers as a psychologist, university lecturer, Trappist monk and prison warden, to name but a few.
		Demara apparently studied up on the necessary techniques by reading text books and relying on the help of his Sick Berth Attendant, plus generous supplies of anesthetic and antibiotics.
		Cyr aka Demara is said to have removed a bullet from a man's chest and amputated a foot.
	www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org /resource_pages/chars/demara.html (834 words)

	Canadian Navy on Film, Real or Fantasy
		One Canadian incident that was made into a movie - and not a very good one at that - involved the infamous Ferdinand Waldo [Fred] Demara, an American, who stole a New Brunswick doctor's credentials and presented himself to naval authorities as a doctor; he was accepted.
		Demara was returned to Canada and subsequently discharged.
		For instance, Demara was a portly 200 pounds whereas Curtis was considerably less than that, and the ship's commanding officer was not 'shaped' like O'Brien.
	www.senioryears.com /navyonfilm.html (1069 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Great Impostor (1961)
		Based on the real life of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., The Great Impostor tells a clever little tale of a man who refuses to accept that he should be content with less than his dreams.
		Most is lighthearted -- one funny scene has Demara called upon to pull a tooth, something he's never done before in his life.
		But another scene, with Demara posing as a prison warden, is tensely dangerous.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.great.impostor.1961.shtml (244 words)

	Imposter - LP
		For more than a decade Demara had held positions in a number of religious orders, and as a psychologist, university lecturer, college department head, school teacher, and prison warden.
		Demara became friendly with Doctor Cyr, and often visited the latter's offices.
		The Reverend Ferdinand Waldo Demara died in 1982.
	www.kvacanada.com /stories_lpimposter.htm (1529 words)

	The 'Great Impostor's' house is on the market
		Demara made international headlines for impersonating a surgeon, teacher, prison guard, monk, college professor and zoologist, all without credentials and using false names.
		One story Petty vividly remembers is Demara paying her husband a nickel to shoo away birds from his roof with a pebble so Demara's mother could sleep.
		Demara was still alive when the Pettys bought the house from another family.
	www.eagletribune.com /local/local_story_233094536/resources_printstory (966 words)

	Ghosting (identity theft) at AllExperts
		The most famous ghoster is Ferdinand Waldo Demara, alias "The Great Impostor", whose case is unusual for two reasons: because he appropriated the identities of several different men (in series); and because all of Demara's ghosted identities were persons still alive at the time, and therefore able to confront him.
		After Demara's death in 1982, it was revealed (in his New York Times obituary) that he had been arrested twice on charges of attempted sex with minors.
		Demara's aberrant sexual behavior, combined with his penchant for serial ghosting, strongly indicates that he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse: probably incest.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/gh/ghosting_(identity_theft).htm (3177 words)

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		La grande différence avec Jarod est que Ferdinand Demara connaissait parfaitement ses parents et vécut une enfance heureuse.
		Demara s'enfuit et se fait engager dans un foyer pour handicapés mentaux.
		Demara continue quelques "pretends" discrètement et mourut en 1982, alors qu'il était devenu prêtre baptiste au Nord-Est des USA...
	www.chez.com /delphinevb/Onyssius/Pages/demara.htm (618 words)

	Freefire Zone Forums - The Great Imposter
		Demara, perhaps the greatest imposter of all time, successfully posed as a theologian, psychologist, doctor of philosophy, prison officer, teacher, and a surgeon.
		Demara had used the credentials of a doctor friend to get a commission as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Korean War.
		Demara threw himself wholeheartedly into his new role, organizing classes, arranging movie showings, and establishing a helpful routine for the prisoners.
	www.freefirezone.net /showthread.php?t=3940 (1340 words)

	greatimpostor
		It's based on the true story about Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., someone who wanted to be somebody but didn't have the will power to take the hard road and work for it and instead took shortcuts.
		Demara quits high school despite good grades because he's impatient to seek his fortune in the world.
		Many of the episodes in Demara's life never reached the screen and some of those that did were not that well presented.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/greatimpostor.htm (635 words)

	maine.com reference article
		Demara's career came to and end when he was finally arrested on an island here in Maine.
		They say some of the people most deceived by Demara in his shady but colorful career later told officials that they'd be willing to have come him back and continue whatever it was he was doing in their midst.
		It was Demara's contention that Crichton told his story inaccurately and he said he wanted to write his own biography sometime.
	journal.maine.com /lore/storytellers/20030212003539.html (865 words)

	New Statesman - Doppelganger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hours later, the editor was in possession of a full transcript, Queen Marie having believed Weyman to be a secretary of state.
		Demara thought that an intelligent man who applied himself could learn to do any job in a matter of months.
		The only audience Demara consistently failed to convince was the opposite sex, and he eventually abandoned his only love for fear that she would discover his true identity (and his true failure with it).
	www.newstatesman.com /200003200054 (803 words)

	AnEx Publications - The Great Impostor (c) 1959 by Robert Crichton - Chapter One
		At the dock, when they had piled out into the patches of wet snow, Demara suddenly let out a shattering whoop and began laughing, laughing so hard that he doubled over and began choking and puffing and the tears streamed down his face, steaming in the cold and turning the moonlike cheeks a glowing red.
		Fred W. Demara was tried in Augusta for “cheating by false premises,” found guilty and, as happens with almost every institution he has defrauded, in order to save themselves embarrassment, they didn’t choose to press charges.
		Demara was put on probation in the State of Maine, and then set free when he let it be known that he planned to leave the state.
	www.anexx.com /AnEx/greatimpostor/chapter1.htm (2324 words)

	Ferdinand Waldo Demara: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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	Huntsville Hospital
		Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), known as "The great impostor", masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens.
		Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), known as "The great impostor", masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens.
		He never seemed to get much monetary gain in what he was now widely known.
	de83.motorists-mico.com /huntsvillehospital.html (1420 words)

	Sunbonnet Soliloquy: Be Yourself-- Your Best Self
		When Demara died last year (1982) in unhappy obscurity at the age of 60, a friend said: “He had no great corporation to run, no prisons to direct, no operations to perform, so he invented it...
		During his teens Demara ran away from home in Lawrence, Mass., and for some 20 to 30 years he assumed many identities.
		A much older, but similar, impostor story is that of an elderly German cobbler, Wilhelm Voigt, who in October of 1906 was living in poverty in an attic in Berlin.
	www.missionaryclinicbelize.org /USA/Sunbonnet83-02.htm (915 words)

	The Great Impostor Synopsis - Moviefone
		The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis.
		Unable to decide what he wants to do with his life, DeMara goes about pretending to be other people, hoping to eventually "find himself." He poses as a Harvard professor, a Trappist monk, a prison warden, and a navy physician, and manages each time to get away with the artifice.
		The real Ferdinand DeMara (if indeed there was a real Ferdinand DeMara) can be seen in a supporting role in the 1960 melodrama The Hypnotic Eye.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-great-impostor/1014418/synopsis?date=20061023 (183 words)

	Canadian Tribal Association - Cayuga
		In 1952, between the second and third tours she was rebuilt as a destroyer escort.
		Shortly after the Korean war started, the infamous American impersonator Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr joined the RCN posing as Dr. Joseph Cyr under false credentials and was quickly inducted and posted to CAYUGA.
		His only medical training was self taught, yet while at sea in 1951, his treatment of three wounded ROK guerrillas won the respect of the Captain and the crew.
	www.jproc.ca /cta/cayuga.html (804 words)

	Characters
		One such remarkable individual was Ferdinand Waldo Demara, also known as the Great Impostor.
		Demara, an American, joined the Royal Canadian Navy fraudulently in 1951, and went on to successfully impersonate a ship's doctor during the Korean conflict, an audacious piece of role-play that earned him notoriety but also the affection of many of his ship-mates.
		When the crew of HMCS Thiepval returned to Esquimalt from Japan in 1924, they brought with them a real character, a higuma (brown bear) transported from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
	www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org /resource_pages/chars/chars_intro.html (405 words)

	Great Impostor, The - 1960 Comedy Movie - Tony Curtis as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr./Martin Donner/Dr. Gilbe
		Great Impostor, The - 1960 Comedy Movie - Tony Curtis as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr./Martin Donner/Dr. Gilbe
		Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the...
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	www.moviefolio.com /movies/Great_Impostor_The_1960.cfm (40 words)

	Tony Curtis at Hollywood.com
		The Outsider - (Ira Hamilton Hayes / 1962 / Released / Universal)
		The Great Impostor - (Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr / 1961 / Released / Universal)
		1960 Portrayed chronically flexible Ferdinand Demara in Robert Mulligan's "The Great Imposter"
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Tony_Curtis/198627 (2214 words)

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