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Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory

Birthday: 1906-04-16 | Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1997
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

as    Self (archive footage)

1977
F for Fake

as    Self