Elmyr de Hory
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
Personal information
Known for: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 16/04/1906
Date of death: 11/12/1976
Place of birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]