The Caretaker Harold Pinter

Introduction

Look up caretaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Caretaker may refer to:

Occupations
  • Janitor (chiefly in the United States), a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals and schools
  • Property caretaker, a person who cares for a property
  • Caregiver or carer (UK), a person who cares for another person
  • Caretaker manager, someone who takes temporary charge of team affairs of a football club
Film, television and theatre
  • The Caretaker (play), a 1960 play by Harold Pinter
  • The Caretaker (1963 film), a British adaptation of Pinter's play
  • The Caretakers (2025 film), a British independent psychological horror thriller
  • The Caretakers (1963 film), an American drama film
  • The Caretakers (2025 film), a Philippine horror film
  • Caretaker, a character in the 1974 film The Longest Yard and the 2005 remake

Television episodes

  • "Caretaker" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), 2018
  • "Caretaker" (Not Going Out), 2006
  • "Caretaker" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1995
  • "The Caretaker" (Doctor Who), 2014
  • "The Caretaker" (Motherland), 2017
Literature
  • Caretaker (comics), a Marvel Comics character who appeared in Ghost Rider and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Helstrom
  • The Caretaker (Pelevin novel), a 2015 novel by Victor Pelevin
  • The Caretaker (Rash novel)
  • The Caretaker Trilogy, a 2006–2009 series of science-fiction novels by David Klass
Music
  • Caretaker (band), an English rock band
  • The Caretaker (musician), James Leyland Kirby (born 1974), English ambient musician
  • The Caretaker (album), a 2020 album by Half Waif
Other uses
  • Caretaker (military), a detachment assigned to maintain an inactive facility
  • Caretaker gene, a group of tumour suppressor genes
  • Caretaker government, a temporary government
  • Caretaker Ministry (disambiguation), one of three short-lived governments of Great Britain
See also
  • Caretakers Cottage, an Australian organisation which assists homeless kids

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