Elmyr de Hory

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

3

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-04-16

Day of death

1976-12-11 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Elmyr de Hory

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

    F for Fake

  • Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

    Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

  • Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

    Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory