headwaiter

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Lucey’s headwaiter Don Avalier was reportedly “discovered” there, and screen-tested for a bio-pic of Rudolph Valentino.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

Sakall, a Hungarian Jewish actor, as the club’s affable headwaiter; and Peter Lorre in the small but crucial role of Ugarte, who sells exit visas to the rich and desperate.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Ms. Peters’s grandfather was a headwaiter at Grossinger’s, the resort in the Catskills that catered to Jewish patrons, and arranged for her to audition before the tenor Jan Peerce, who sometimes sang there.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2017

The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

Before the first course arrived, the headwaiter brought a dozen red roses and presented them to Mary Anne.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy