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unusual facts about Janitor


Housekeeper

Janitor, a person responsible for institutional maintenance


Akiyama Yoshifuru

Born as the third son to a poor samurai in the Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture), Akiyama's family was so poor in his childhood that he was forced to work as a fire stoker and janitor in a local public bathhouse for a pittance each day.

Al White

White, who was raised in San Francisco, California from an early age, decided to embark on an acting career after he had been employed as a janitor in the Golden Gate Park for eight years.

Ary Scheffer

His Christus Consolator, lost for 70 years, was rediscovered in a janitor's closet in Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Dassel, Minnesota in 2007.

Aud Schønemann

She started her acting career in 1945, and is probably best known for her role as Valborg Jensen in the Olsenbanden movies, as Marve Fleksnes' mother on the long-running Norwegian television comedy Fleksnes Fataliteter and as the janitor's wife in the comedy film Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe (based on the play BusyBody by Jack Popplewell).

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

An investigation revealed that his father had not been a Blackfoot chief, but a school janitor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Churchill Insurance Company

The catchphrase is believed to be an impersonation of Potter the janitor (played by Deryck Guyler) from the 1970s TV series Please Sir!.

Colfax Township, Mecosta County, Michigan

This town is also the home to the characters of Jef Mallett's Frazz, a comic strip about a school janitor named Edwin "Frazz" Frazier, a Renaissance man and ultra-triathlete.

Corporate-owned life insurance in the United States

Pejorative names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance, the latter of which refers to the plot of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Douglas Thayer

Thayer’s early work experience included helper on a uranium drill rig, construction laborer, railroad section hand, janitor, restaurant dishwasher, insurance salesman, and seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park.

Ernest Goes to School

Ernest (Jim Varney) works as a janitor at Chickasaw Falls High School, which is facing closure due to the School Board's decision to merge other schools in the area.

Frieda Friedman

On three occasions, the New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival recognized her work in adolescent fiction with an Honor Choice award: in 1947 for Dot for Short; in 1949 for A Sundae with Judy; and in 1956 for The Janitor's Girl.

Ghostquake

The rest of the academy are unaware of this incident, except for the school's janitor Ortiz (Danny Trejo), who is informed of Danforth's but gets locked up in the janitor's closet by Danford's hench-woman.

Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others

In the story Hellboy travels to Alaska in 1961, where he finds not only the grave of the recently deceased Hercules (who lived out the final years of his life in anonymity as a school janitor) but a monstrous hydra.

Howard Devoto

In his brief cameo appearance, Devoto appears as a janitor cleaning a men's toilet while actor Martin Hancock portrays Devoto having a tryst with the wife of promoter/journalist Tony Wilson.

Jackie Jurich

He later lived in San Francisco with his brother and worked as a janitor Local #9 San Francisco at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields from the 1960s through the 1970s.

Jackie Washington

In 1980 Washington played the part of the janitor in the film adaptation of the play: Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave.

Jeff Marcus

Jeff is best known for his television role as Albert Einstein, the Tenctonese janitor of the L.A.P.D. precinct in the cult science fiction TV series Alien Nation.

John Qualen

Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene.

Kristen Pfaff

Pfaff's playing style was central to Janitor Joe's relentless assault both live and on record, and she and Breuer both contributed songs to Big Metal Birds: "Both operate within easy reach of the line separating punishment and reward: Pfaff's contributions (the surly "Boys in Blue") tend to be slightly more spacious, while Breuer's ("One Eye," for instance) stipulate that drummer Matt Entsminger maintain perpetual motion", wrote David Sprague of Trouser Press.

Loan-a Lisa

At a meeting of entrepreneurs, Lisa tries to persuade Nelson to stay in school, but she fails when she discovers that the attendees all left college (including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson), and that the janitor is the only person present who did not drop out.

Magnotta

Mario Magnotta (1942–2009), Italian janitor and internet celebrity

Marikina River

A scientific study of the species found in five locations in the Laguna de Bay tributary system, including the Marikina River, revealed that the specimen of janitor fish previously reported as Hypostomus plecostomus actually belong to the genus Pterygoplichthys, family Loricariidae.

Montgomery Creek, California

Actor Craig T. Nelson lived in Montgomery Creek while working as a janitor at Cedar Creek Elementary School.

My Fault

Janitor's mention of Ross and Rachel is a reference to the infamous television couple from Friends.

My Jerks

J.D. notices the Janitor cleaning gum off a wall and comments, "that's new"; the Janitor, assuming J.D. had noticed his new watch, thinks he wants a compliment back and comments on J.D.'s newly grown "pubescent Miami Vice beard".

Nick Davies

After the London Daily News folded he moved to the USA for a year, where he wrote White Lies, about the wrongful conviction of a black janitor, Clarence Brandley, for the murder of a white girl.

Nick Schenk

During the mid-1990s, Nick played the character of Butch the Janitor on the television series, Let's Bowl, during its initial syndicated run.

Robert F. Young

Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.

Samuel Selvon

When that job ended, he took a job as a janitor at the University of Calgary in Alberta for a few months, before becoming writer-in-residence there.

See What I Wanna See

Directed by Ted Sperling, the cast included Idina Menzel as Kesa/Wife/Actress, Marc Kudisch as Morito/Husband/CPA, Henry Stram as The Janitor/Priest, Aaron Lohr as Thief/Reporter, and Mary Testa as Medium/Aunt.

Snafu Comics

Other staff members who have appeared thus far include Red's psychiatrist Dr. Cricket (whether he is an original character or the Talking Cricket from The Adventures of Pinocchio is unclear), Puss in Boots as Humpty's personal bodyguard, and Pinocchio as the head janitor.

Stephen Marcussen

Once moving to Los Angeles, his burning desire to work in the music industry inspired him to take a janitor position at one of LA’s most prominent recording studios at the time, Studio 55, owned by established producer Richard Perry.

Superintendent

Building superintendent, a manager, maintenance or repair person, custodian or janitor, especially in the United States; sometimes shortened to "super"

Ted Junker

He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1955 and initially worked in Chicago as a janitor.

The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

In 2006, a janitor working for Sony/ATV Music Publishing claimed to have found Williams' unfinished lyrics inside of a Sony-owned dumpster.

Tung Thanh Tran

Tran was going to school and working part-time as a janitor at Lane Technical College Prep High School ("Lane Tech"), when he was discovered by Touchstone Pictures for the part.

Vince Barnett

In later years, Vince often relinquished his comedy image and was seen in innumerable small roles, often as careworn little men, undertakers, janitors, bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir (The Killers, 1946) to westerns (Springfield Rifle, 1952).

W. Joe Hoppe

He grew up in Jackson, Michigan, where he worked as a janitor in a tool & die shop and as a gas station attendant.

William M. Packard

His plays include "The Killer Thing," directed by Otto Preminger, "Sandra and the Janitor," produced at the HB Playwrights Foundation, "The Funeral," "The Marriage," and "War Play," produced and directed by Gene Frankel.


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