Acting

Elmyr de Hory

1906 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

3 films

Bio

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.

Filmography

F for Fake

Self

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

Self

Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

Self (archive footage)

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