<P> The American film actor Wallace Ford was a successful ghoster . Born in England under the name Samuel Jones, he was estranged from his family at an early age and placed in a school in Canada . At the age of 15, Jones became a hobo and stowed away aboard freight trains with a fellow hobo named Wallace Ford . The two boys eventually were in a train accident; Jones survived, but Ford was killed . Jones then appropriated the other man's name and some aspects of his biography, becoming a successful actor under the name Wallace Ford, eventually starring on Broadway and in Hollywood films . As "Wallace Ford," Jones used the real Ford's birthdate and other statistics on all of his own tax returns and official documents, even applying for a passport as Wallace Ford for his 1937 return to England . Only shortly before his death in 1966 did the actor reveal the complete truth about his identity . </P> <P> Jones (Ford) was fortunate to have an ideal candidate for his ghost identity: a dead person of his own race, sex and approximate age whose death was never officially recorded . (No one came forward to identify the real Wallace Ford's remains .) Typically, ghosters seeking a dead person's identity must choose someone whose death has been recorded in public archives, creating a risk that, after donning this new identity, the ghoster will eventually be confronted with a copy of his "own" death certificate . </P> <P> Ghosters have appeared in fiction . One example is Seymour Skinner, the grade - school principal in The Simpsons . Several years after his first appearance on this series, Skinner revealed that he was an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinner's life and identity after the real Skinner was captured in Vietnam and sold to a shoe - producing company in China . Don Draper, the main character in AMC's Mad Men, is another example of a ghoster, obtaining his identity from a deceased superior officer during the Korean War . In the film The Day of the Jackal the would - be assassin assumes the identity of a deceased person to hide his movements from the authorities . </P> <P> In Naruto, the character Obito used the identity of Uchiha Madara until it was revealed that the real Madara is dead by Kabuto . </P>

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