# 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