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A Fish Called Wanda

They bring in two Americans to help: a con artist, Wanda Gershwitz, and "weapons man" Otto West, an Anglophobe who fancies himself an intellectual.

Death Defying Acts

Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour.

Going Postal

The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the very last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.

Shipoopi

The solfege used by the chorus deviates from standard English-language solfege in several ways; within the context of the musical, some or all of these errors may be attributable to the fact that Marcellus, a former con artist, does not have formal musical training in his "professional" background.


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Billy Milligan

Among the first ten were Arthur, a prim and proper Englishman; Allen, a manipulator; Tommy, a con-artist; Ragen Vadascovinich, a Yugoslavian communist who Milligan claimed had committed the robberies in a kind of Robin Hood spirit; and Adalana, a 19-year-old lesbian who craved affection and who had allegedly committed the rapes.

Blake Berris

The Washington Examiner called his performance "stand-out" and "understatedly powerful." House of Last Things directed by Michael Bartlett which premiered at Gérardmer Film Festival in France in 2013, and Minkow which he stars along with James Caan and Ving Rhames about the real life story of con-artist and ponzi schemer, Barry Minkow.

Canada Bill Jones

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Mr. Wednesday tells his protégé Shadow a story about Canada Bill Jones to demonstrate the life of a con artist.

Jefferson Smith

Soapy Smith (Jefferson Randolph Smith II, 1860–1898), American con artist and gangster

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.

Secrets of the Stars

The man is a con artist, deceiving his customers to get money out of them, to which he finally admits this to the woman who has been visiting him frequently, and is using her mortgage money to pay.

Tim DeKay

DeKay is currently starring in the USA Network series White Collar, which chronicles the partnership between a con artist (played by Matt Bomer) and an FBI agent (DeKay).