Old man

Old man, Old Man or The Old Man may refer to:

Basic meanings

• An elderly man
• A 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
• Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Bolshevik revolutionary nicknamed the "Old Man" by both supporters and adversaries
• 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"
• Old Man, the CEO of a company in the RoboCop movies

Literature

• The Old Man (Gorky play) (Старик), a 1915 play by Maxim Gorky
• The Old Man (Wallace play), a 1931 play by Edgar Wallace
• "Old Man", a poem by Edward Thomas
• "Old Man", a narrative thread in William Faulkner's 1939 novel If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
• The Old Man (Perry novel), a 2017 novel by Thomas Perry
• The Old Man (Trifonov novel) (Старик), a novel by Yuri Trifonov
• The Old Man and the Sea , a short novel by Ernest Hemingway

Film, television and stage

• Old Man (film), a 2022 American film
• 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 (2019 film), a 2019 Estonian animated film
• "The Old Man" (Seinfeld), an episode of the television series Seinfeld
• The Old Man (TV series), an American thriller drama television series on FX based on the Thomas Perry novel of the same name
• 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
• Old Man (Playhouse 90), a 1958 American television play
• The Old Man, a character in the film A Christmas Story

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

Geography

• Old Man of the Hills, a mountain in Montana
• 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
• Old Man of the Lake, a hemlock tree stump floating in Crater Lake, Oregon

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

See also

• Old Man of the Mountain (disambiguation)
• Old Man River (disambiguation)
• My Old Man (disambiguation)
• Oldman (disambiguation)
• Der Alte (disambiguation)