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Father (Kanye West song)
"Father" (FATHER) is a 2026 song by Kanye West (Ye) featuring Travis Scott, lead single of the album Bully, released March 28, 2026; 2:51, sampling Johnnie Frierson, with a Bianca Censori-directed church video.
Father (වාසනා) (2026 film)
Father (ෆාදර්, also Father: The Judgement Is Inconclusive) is a 2026 Sinhala Sri Lankan gangster film by Chaminda Jayasuriya about Desmond Gunasekara, released 9 January 2026; distinct from a Kannada film of the same name.
Father absence
Father absence: a child living apart from the biological father due to divorce, nonmarital birth, death, or migration. Research links it to worse education, mental health, and behavior, with smaller effects in rigorous causal designs.
Father and Son (song)
Father and Son: 1970 Cat Stevens dialogue song from Tea for the Tillerman, both voices sung by Stevens, rooted in the unproduced musical Revolussia; later a UK No. 2 hit for Boyzone.
Father and Son (父子情) (1981 film)
Father and Son (父子情) is Allen Fong's 1981 Hong Kong New Wave debut, produced by Feng Huang, about a father sacrificing his daughters for his son's education; it won Best Film and Best Director at the first Hong Kong Film Awards.
Father Brown
Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's fictional Catholic priest-detective, first appearing in "The Blue Cross" (1910) and featuring in over fifty short stories modeled intellectually on Father John O'Connor, later adapted for film and the BBC series with Mark Williams.
Father Brown (2013 TV series)
Father Brown (2013 TV series): BBC One Daytime period detective drama starring Mark Williams as Chesterton's priest-detective, set in 1950s Cotswolds village Kembleford; made by BBC Birmingham Drama Village, running since January 2013.
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the English personification of Christmas, born in 17th-century Puritan-era pamphlets as an allegory of feasting, later merged with the American Santa Claus in the 19th century and now the UK's name for the red-coated gift-bringer.
Father complex
Father complex, also called daddy issues: a psychoanalytic and Jungian term for unconscious feeling-toned ideas clustering around the father. Freud used it 1910–1913 for oedipal guilt and castration anxiety; Jung made it an archetypal concept; the phrase has largely vanished from contemporary psychoanalysis.
Father Damien
Father Damien, born Jozef De Veuster, was a Belgian Catholic priest who served the Molokai leprosy settlement in Hawaii from 1873 until his death in 1889.
Father Divine
Father Divine, also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was the founder of the International Peace Mission Movement, whose followers believed he was God in a body.
Father Dougal McGuire
Father Dougal McGuire is the fictional dim-witted young curate of Craggy Island in the sitcom Father Ted (1995–1998), played by Ardal O'Hanlon; known for the Blackrock incident, My Lovely Horse, and Careful Now placards.
Father Figure (Taylor Swift song)
Taylor Swift's "Father Figure" (2025), track 4 on The Life of a Showgirl, interpolates George Michael's 1987 hit with his estate's blessing, credits him posthumously, and is read as addressing Scott Borchetta; it peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Father Figures
Father Figures is a 2017 American road movie comedy starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms as twin brothers who set out to find the father they thought was dead.
Father Frank, Full of Grace (Shameless season 11)
"Father Frank, Full of Grace" is the series finale of US Shameless, season 11 episode 12, aired April 11, 2021 on Showtime, written by John Wells and directed by Christopher Chulack, in which Frank Gallagher dies of COVID-19 and floats skyward on his barstool.
Father Goose
Father Goose (1964) is a Cary Grant romantic comedy directed by Ralph Nelson, co-starring Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard, about a WWII coast-watcher; it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Father Guido Sarducci
Father Guido Sarducci is the chain-smoking Vatican gossip-columnist priest character created and performed by Don Novello, famous on SNL's Weekend Update from 1978 and the record-holding most-used fictional SNL character.
Father Joe (film)
Father Joe is a 2026 French action-crime film directed by Barthélémy Grossmann, written by Luc Besson, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a gun-wielding priest and Al Pacino as a mob boss; it premiered out of competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
Father John Misty
Father John Misty, stage name of Joshua Michael Tillman (born 1981, Rockville, Maryland), American indie-folk singer-songwriter, ex-Fleet Foxes drummer, formerly J. Tillman; albums Fear Fun through Mahashmashana on Sub Pop and Bella Union.
Father Knows Best
Father Knows Best: American family sitcom created by Ed James with Robert Young and Eugene B. Rodney; NBC radio 1949–1953 (title then had a question mark), CBS/NBC/CBS television 1954–1960, 203 episodes, Anderson family in Springfield.
Father Mother Sister Brother
Father Mother Sister Brother is a 2025 Jim Jarmusch triptych film about adult children and distant parents, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris; it won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival and was released by MUBI.
Father of All Bombs (АВБПМ)
The Father of All Bombs (FOAB), formally the Aviation Vacuum Bomb of Increased Power (АВБПМ), is a Russian thermobaric bomb Russia claimed to have tested in September 2007.
Father of All Motherfuckers
Father of All Motherfuckers (Father of All...) is Green Day's 13th studio album, released February 7, 2020 on Reprise/Warner. Produced by Butch Walker, 10 songs in 26 minutes, garage rock, funk, and soul sound.
Father of the Bride (1950 film)
Father of the Bride (1950) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM comedy adapted from Edward Streeter's novel, starring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, and Don Taylor; a top-1950 grosser with three Oscar nominations, later remade in 1991.
Father of the Bride (1991 film)
Father of the Bride is a 1991 American family comedy directed by Charles Shyer, starring Steve Martin as George Banks, a father reluctant to accept his daughter's marriage.
Father of the Bride (2022 film)
Father of the Bride (2022) is an HBO Max comedy-drama, the third film version of Edward Streeter's 1949 novel, directed by Gaz Alazraki, starring Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan as a Cuban-American Miami couple whose daughter weds into a Mexican family.
Father of the Bride (album)
Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend's fourth album (May 3, 2019, Columbia), an 18-track double album produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and Ezra Koenig after Rostam Batmanglij's departure; it won the 2020 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
Father of the Bride (franchise)
Father of the Bride franchise: film, TV, and streaming adaptations of Edward Streeter's 1949 novel, including the 1950 MGM Spencer Tracy film, its 1951 sequel, a 1961-62 sitcom, the 1991 Steve Martin Touchstone remake and 1995 Part II, a 2020 Netflix reunion special, and the 2022 HBO Max Cuban-American remake.
Father of the Bride Part II
Father of the Bride Part II, also known as Father of the Bride 2, is a 1995 American comedy directed by Charles Shyer and the sequel to the 1991 Father of the Bride.
Father of the House
Father of the House: honorary title in the UK House of Commons for the MP with the longest continuous service, currently Sir Edward Leigh (since 1983); equivalent to the US Dean of the House.