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An amateur is a person who pursues an activity or field of study independently from their source of income.

Contents

• Film
• Literature
• Television
• Other uses
• See also

Amateurs or The Amateur may also refer to:

Film

• The Amateur (1981 film), a Canadian crime/thriller film
• Amateur (1994 film), a comedy crime drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley
• The Amateur (1999 film), an Argentine drama film
• The Amateurs , an American comedy film
• Amateur (2018 film), an American sports drama
• The Amateur (2025 film), an American espionage action/thriller film

Literature

• The Amateur, a 1916 novel by Charles Gilman Norris
• An Amateur, a 1925 collection by W. B. Maxwell
• "The Amateurs", a 1955 short story by Alan Cogan, first published in the July 1955 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction
• Amateurs, a 1976 collection by Donald Barthelme
• The Amateur, a 1981 novel by Robert Littell, basis for the 1981 and 2025 films
• The Amateurs, a 2009 novel by John Niven
• The Amateurs, a 2016 novel by Sara Shepard
• The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, a 2012 book by American author, tabloid writer, and gossip columnist Edward Klein
• Amateur (book), a 2018 non-fiction book by Thomas Page McBee

Television

• "Amateurs", Peanuts episode 25b (2016)
• "The Amateur", Mission: Impossible season 5, episode 9 (1970)
• "The Amateur", NBC Matinee Theater season 1, episode 62 (1956)
• "The Amateurs", GE True episode 13 (1962)
• "The Amateurs", Maigret (1960) series 3, episode 13 (1962)
• "The Amateurs", Motive season 3, episode 11 (2015)
• "The Amateurs", Z-Cars series 7, episode 88 (1972)

Other uses

• The Amateurs (band), UK indie rock band
• The Amateur Championship, UK golf tournament

See also

Search for "amateur" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles beginning with Amateur
• All pages with titles containing amateur or amateurs
• Professional amateur (disambiguation)

• Armature (disambiguation)

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