Elmyr de Hory
- Birth Date
- 4/16/1906 - 12/11/1976
- Birth Place
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Known For
- Acting
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.
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