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During DeMara's 'careers', his imitations include a ship's doctor, a civil engineer, a deputy sheriff, a prison assistant director, a physician in applied psychology, a nurse, a lawyer, an expert in the care of children, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist Monk, publisher, cancer researcher and teacher. A teaching job took him to six months in prison. He never seemed to get (or look) much money at what he was doing - just temporary respectability.

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Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. (December 21, 1921 [1] [2] - June 7, 1982 officials.
known as "The Great Impostor," posed as many people, from monks and surgeons, to prison officials. He was the subject of a movie, The Great Imposter, in which he was played by Tony Curtis.

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1941 he enlisted in the Army and began a brilliant career usurping the identity of other people, which would give rise to his nickname: "The Great Impostor".

His first deception consisted of impersonating a partner for a series of special permits. After that Demara took refuge in a monastery near Louisville, Kentucky (that of the monastic life is something he returned to again and again throughout his life, even helped found a religious college). At the end of World War II, he entered the Army again