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Elmyr de Hory

Born 1906-04-16 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary] · Died 1976-12-11

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

Cast

Known for

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

2008

★ 6.5Viewing moment

Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

Frequent collaborators

Clifford Irving

Orson Welles

Joseph Cotten

Ursula Andress

Howard Hughes

Oja Kodar

Peter Bogdanovich

Nina van Pallandt