Person
Elmyr de Hory
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- April 16, 1906 · 70 years
- Death
- December 11, 1976
- Origin
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Professional Trajectory
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
