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Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. (December 21, 1921〔This date is uncertain. Some sources say 12 December 1921, 12 December 1922 or 21 December 1922.〕〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218075/bio〕 – June 7, 1982), known as 'The Great Impostor', masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens.〔 http://books.google.pl/books?id=flQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA79&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false〕 He was the subject of a movie, ''The Great Impostor'', in which he was played by Tony Curtis. During Demara's 'careers', his impersonations included a ship's doctor, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher. One teaching job led to six months in prison. He never seemed to get (or seek) much monetary gain in what he was doing – just temporary respectability. Many of Demara's unsuspecting employers, under other circumstances, would have been satisfied with Demara as an employee. Demara was said to possess a true photographic memory and was widely reputed to have an extraordinary IQ. He was apparently able to memorize necessary techniques from textbooks and worked on two cardinal rules: ''The burden of proof is on the accuser'' and ''When in danger, attack.'' He described his own motivation as "Rascality, pure rascality". == Early life and adulthood == Demara, known locally as 'Fred', was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1921, at 40 Texas Avenue in the lower southwest Tower Hill Neighborhood. His father, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Sr. was born in Rhode Island and worked in Lawrence's old Theatre District as a motion picture operator. Demara, Sr. was financially well-off, and the family lived on Jackson St. in Lawrence, an upper-class neighborhood. Demara Sr.'s brother, Napoleon Louis Demara, Sr. owned many of the theatres in Lawrence, in which Ferdinand, Sr. was an active union member. Early on in the Great Depression, Fred's father became financially insolvent, forcing the family to move from the Tower Hill neighborhood to the poorer section in the city. It was during these financial troubles, when Demara Jr. ran away from home at the age of sixteen to join Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, and stayed for several years. He joined the U.S. Army in 1941. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferdinand Waldo Demara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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