Editing Card sharp (section)

===Television===

* Stage magician and actor [[Harry Anderson]] (of ''[[Night Court]]'' fame) made several appearances on ''[[Cheers]]'' as card sharp "Harry the Hat".
* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "[[The One with Russ]]", [[Ross Geller|Ross]] debates with his [[doppelgänger]] Russ about the correctness of the term "card shark" vs. "card sharp".
* The ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' episode "[[List of Homicide: Life on the Street episodes#Season 7: 1998–99|Just an Old-fashioned Love Song]]", features the homicide investigation of a woman who made a living as a card sharp, but whose gambling on other games sank her into substantial debt, with dire consequences for herself and her extended family.
* On ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'', members of the Impossible Missions Force (particularly [[Rollin Hand]]), would often use their card sharp skills as part of a mission.
* On ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', Cpl. Peter Newkirk (Richard Dawson) served as the group's card sharp, in addition to being a sleight-of-hand expert, magician, forger, safe-cracker, lock-picker, pick-pocket, voice impersonator, and all-around conman.
* In ''[[Prison Break]]'', the character [[Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell]] is an expert card sharp, who says, "there are maybe five people in this country who can do what I do with a deck of cards." T-Bag uses this skill successfully in season 1, episode 18, "[[Bluff (Prison Break episode)|Bluff]]".
* ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' featured an episode wherein card sharps defeated Lamont at poker. Fred was able to defeat the card sharps and win Lamont's money back, in season 2, episode 6, aired October 27, 1972.
* In the Japanese anime ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', characters Fay Valentine and [[Spike Spiegel]] both exhibit card sharping skills, usually at the expense of their partner, Jet Black.
* In the ''[[Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]'' episode "[[List of Arrow episodes#Season 1 (2012–13)|The Undertaking]]", [[Felicity Smoak (Arrowverse)|Felicity Smoak]] poses as a card sharp, so that she and [[Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)|Oliver]] can infiltrate a private casino to extort information about [[Walter Steele (Arrowverse)|Walter Steele]].
* In ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' series 4, [[List of Downton Abbey episodes#Series four (2013)|episode 3]], Edith's love interest Mr. Gregson expresses his pleasure in beating a "card sharp", Mr Sampson, who was a card sharp of the first degree.
* In the ''[[Person of Interest (TV series)|Person of Interest]]'' episode "[[List of Person of Interest episodes#Season 2 (2012–13)|All In]]", Harold Finch and John Reese are given information about a former card sharp who is forced into being a mule for a casino owner and drug dealer by picking up money from a dead drop and intentionally losing it in his casino.
* In the British reality TV show ''[[The Real Hustle]]'', co-host Paul Wilson is an expert card mechanic who uses his skills to demonstrate scams.
* In  ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' episode "One Genie Beats Four of a Kind", Jeannie helping Tony and Roger at their poker games leads others, including Dr. Bellows and a fellow astronaut, to believe they are card sharps. To compound things, the other astronaut is actually a mobster in disguise who intends to rub out Roger (whom he suspects is the real card sharp), until Jeannie turns the tables on him.
* The title of the American game show ''[[Card Sharks]]'' is a play on the phrase "card sharps".