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Birthday: 1906-01-01 17:44:42

Death: 1976-12-11 17:44:42

Aliases: No known aliases

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Movie Involvements: 2

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Biography

​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.

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F for Fake
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F for Fake

(1973) Self
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
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Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

(1997) Self (archive footage)

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