Doorman

A doorman, also known as doorkeeper, is someone who is posted at, and often guards, a door, or by extension another entrance (specific similar terms exist, e.g. gatekeeper, hall porter). Specific uses include:

Professions

• Doorman (profession), hired to provide courtesy and security services at a residential building or hotel
• Bouncer, a person employed by a nightclub or similar establishment to prevent troublemakers from entering or to eject them from the premises
• Usher (occupation), often ceremonial
• Ostiarius, ecclesiastical minor order
• Doorkeeper (Houses of Parliament), badged officer of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament
• Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives

Books

• The Doorman (El Portero), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas
• Doorman (comics), a Marvel Comics fictional superhero

Film and TV

• "The Doorman" (Seinfeld), a 1995 episode of the American TV series
• The Doorman (1950 film), a 1950 film starring Cantinflas
• The Doorman, a 2005 film starring Dominique Vandenberg
• The Doorman, a 2007 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich
• The Doorman (2020 film), a 2020 action thriller starring Ruby Rose and Jean Reno
• Dead as a Doorman, a 1986 film starring Bradley Whitford

Music

• "Doorman", a rock song by Stereophonics from the 2005 album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
• "Doorman", a song by British rapper Slowthai and featuring Mura Masa from his 2019 album Nothing Great About Britain

Other uses

• Karel Doorman, Dutch Rear Admiral who died in 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea
• SS Doorman, a Second World War Dutch merchant ship
• Doorman, a village in Kunduz Province in Afghanistan

See also

• Chancellor, originally posted at a door post