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Elmyr de Hory
Known for
Acting
Born
April 16, 1906
Birthplace
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died
December 11, 1976 (aged 70)
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.
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Best known work
F for Fake
1973
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
1997
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
2008Filmography
2008
1997
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgeryas Self (archive footage)
1973
F for Fakeas Self