Elmyr de Hory

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Hoffmann) (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elmyr de Hory, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born:

Jan 1, 1906

Movie/TV Credits:

2

First Appeared:

In the movie F for Fake 1973-09-01

Latest Project:

Movie Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery 1997-01-01