Man in Black

The Man in Black may refer to:

People

• Johnny Cash, American country and western singer, who regularly performed dressed in all black
• Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver
• Tacchi Venturi, papal liaison to Mussolini

Entertainment

Music

• Man in Black (album), a 1971 album by Johnny Cash
• "Man in Black" (song), a Johnny Cash song on the 1971 album of the same name

Other media

• The narrator of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear
  • Valentine Dyall, British actor, the original presenter of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear
  • Edward de Souza, successor to Dyall, on the BBC Radio 4 series Fear on Four between 1988 and 1992
  • Mark Gatiss, in the 2009 BBC Radio 4 Extra revival of the radio programme now titled The Man in Black
• Man in Black (film), a 1949 British thriller film
• Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words, Johnny Cash's autobiography
• The Man in Black, a 1965 Western novel by Marvin H. Albert, filmed as Rough Night in Jericho in 1967
• The Man in Black a ballet by James Kudelka

Fictional characters

• The Man in Black (Lost) (also known as "the smoke monster" and similar), the unnamed antagonist of the TV series Lost
• Randall Flagg, a character featured in several of Stephen King's novels
• Dr. Terence Wynn, a character in the Halloween film series
• Colonel Douglas Mortimer, played by Lee Van Cleef, in For a Few Dollars More
• The earliest example, Chaucer's Man in Black, from The Book of the Duchess
• The Man in Black, aka The Dread Pirate Roberts, in The Princess Bride

Other uses

• An informal nickname for referees in association football, referring to the traditional match official's kit

See also

• List of people known as the Black
• Men in Black (disambiguation)
• The Traveller in Black, a collection of stories by John Brunner