Elmyr de Hory

Birth Date

4/16/1906 (Age 70)

Birth Place

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Death Date

12/11/1976

Departments

Acting

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia