Elmyr de Hory
Personal Information
- Occupation: Actor
- Birthday: 16 Apr, 1906
- Death day: 11 Dec, 1976 ( 48 years old )
- Place of birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Also known as:
Elmyr de Hory
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