Which movie and book is a semi-autobiographical story about a onetime con artist posing as a Pan Am pilot?

‘Catch Me If You Can’ is a semi-autobiographical book about criminal exploits allegedly engaged in by Frank Abagnale Jr. (born 1948), a onetime con artist impersonating a number of roles including a Pan Am pilot who logged over two million air miles. He also impersonated a doctor, teacher, and an attorney.

He is an American author and convicted felon. The book is acknowledged to have been partly fictionalized, and the factual basis for some of the events contained in the book has been challenged.

The book is written in the first person and describes how Abagnale passed $2.5 million worth of bad checks as he assumed various roles before he was finally apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) while living in France.

Published in 1980, the book was adapted into a film (2002) of the same name by American director Steven Spielberg (born 1946), starring American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) as Abagnale, and American actor Tom Hanks (born 1956), as the FBI agent who pursued him.

As a convicted felon, Abagnale has spent time incarcerated including: 4 months in a French prison, 4 months in a Swedish prison, 3 years, 3 months and 7 days in a United States federal prison and 3 years in Great Meadow Correctional Facility, New York, New York, U.S. (age 17-20 for passing bad checks).

The book concludes with an epilogue telling the story of his final capture and his rehabilitation, which resulted in the creation of his security firm.