Elmyr de Hory

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

  • Title: Elmyr de Hory
  • Popularity: 0.58
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-04-16
  • Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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Elmyr de Hory Movies

  • 1973
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    F for Fake
    F for Fake

    7.4 1973 HD

    Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

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  • 1997
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    Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
    Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

    6.5 1997 HD

    Film about art forger Elmyr de Hory. He was also one of the subjects of Orson Welles' documentary F for Fake (1974). A Norwegian production directed...

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  • 2008
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    Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
    Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

    0.5 2008 HD

    Elmyr de Hory was called "The Myth of our Century" when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968. Born in 1905, he made an estimated 1000 fake...

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