Person
Elmyr de Hory
Acting · 1906–1976 · 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
F for Fake
Self
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
Self (archive footage)
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
Self
Filmography
- 2008Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De HorySelf
- 1997Almost True: The Noble Art of ForgerySelf (archive footage)
- 1973F for FakeSelf
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