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Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory

Born: 1906-04-16 • 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.

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Filmography
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory poster
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
2008 • Self
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery poster
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
1997 • Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer poster
Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer
1976 • Self
F for Fake poster
F for Fake
1973 • Self