Elmyr de Hory

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

Born:

Apr 16, 1906 In Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Movie/TV Credits:

3

First Appeared:

In the movie F for Fake 1973-09-01

Latest Project:

Movie Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory 2008-01-01