Elmyr de Hory

Acting

  • Born
  • April 16, 1906
  • Died
  • December 11, 1976
  • Place of birth
  • Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Biography

Elmyr de Hory (1905 – December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake!, and from F for Fake (1974), a documentary essay film by Orson Welles.

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As actor 3

F for Fake poster
F for Fake
1973
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery poster
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
1997
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory poster
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
2008