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

James Oliver Gibson was born in Atlanta on April 1, 1934, to a hotel headwaiter and a homemaker.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

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