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
Birthday: 16 April 1906
Birth place: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
F for Fake
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory