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Elmyr de Hory

Actor · 1906–1976 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

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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

Appearances3

2000s

  1. 2008

    Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

    Self

1990s

  1. 1997

    Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

    Self (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1973

    F for Fake

    Self

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