Old man

Old Man may refer to:

Basic meanings

• An elderly man
• A father (especially as the phrase "my old man" to mean "my father")
• A husband
• Commanding officer of a military unit
• Captain of a merchant ship or a warship
• Any male amateur radio operator

People

• La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 ("The Old Man"), an almost-complete male Neanderthal skeleton discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
• Richard Benjamin Harrison (1941–2018), American businessman and reality television personality of the series Pawn Stars, nicknamed "The Old Man"
• Joseph Paruta (1929–1986), member of the Gambino crime family nicknamed "Old Man"
• Yitzhak Sadeh (1890–1952), Israeli military commander nicknamed "The Old Man"

Books and literature

• The Old Man, play by Maxim Gorky, 1919
• The Old Man (play), a 1931 play by Edgar Wallace
• "Old Man", a poem by Edward Thomas
• "Old Man", one of the two narrative threads (the other is "Wild Palms") interwoven in William Faulkner's 1939 novel If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
• The Old Man (Trifonov novel) (Старик), novel by Yuri Trifonov
• The Old Man and the Sea, short novel by Ernest Hemingway
• SCP-106"The Old Man" part of SCP Foundation wiki

Film and TV

• The Old Man (1931 film), based on the Edgar Wallace play of the same name
• The Old Man (2012 film), a 2012 Kazakhstani film
• "The Old Man" (Seinfeld), an episode of the television series Seinfeld
• The Old Man, a character in the film A Christmas Story
• Old Man, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie based on the "Old Man" narrative thread in William Faulkner's novel If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

Music

• Old Man Luedecke, a Canadian indie banjo band

Songs

• "Old Man" (song) by Neil Young
• "Old Man", a song by Love, from the album Forever Changes
• "Old Man", a song by Randy Newman from Sail Away, covered by Art Garfunkel, 1974
• "Old Man", a song by Clouds, 1970
• "Old Man", a song by the Collectors, 1967
• "Old Man", a song by Harrys Gym, 2011
• "Old Man", a song by John David, 1976
• "Old Man", a song by Lighthouse, 1972
• "The Old Man" a song by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, 1954
• "The Old Man", a song by Colm C.T. Wilkinson, 1977
• "The Old Man", a song written by Phil Coulter and sung by John McDermott about a man remembering his father after he has died
• "The Old Man", a song by the Fureys and Davey Arthur, 1982
• "The Old Man", a song by Matt Lucas
• "This Old Man" a children's song

Other

• Old Man (The Legend of Zelda), a recurring character in The Legend of Zelda video game series
• old man (magazine), a journal of the Union of Swiss Short Wave Amateurs

Geography

• Old Man of the Mountain, a geological formation in New Hampshire
• Old Man of Hoy, a sea stack in Scotland
• Old Man of Coniston, a mountain in the Lake District of England

See also

• My Old Man (disambiguation)
• Oldman (died 1687), King of the Miskito Nation
• Old Man River (disambiguation)