Elmyr de Hory

Directing 'Fake!' about Elmyr de Hory Director Julian Temple is to take on the story of art faker Elmyr de Hory, written by the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving. Richard Gere played him in "The Hoax" in 2007. Temple has...

In this article: Julian Temple, Orson Welles, To Catch a Thief, Clifford Irving, Richard Gere, Howard Stern, and The Hoax

...physical object. The Orson Welles documentary F for Fake concerns both art and literary forgery. For the movie Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an "authorized" autobiography of Howard...

In this article: Killian documents, Frank Abagnale, Orson Welles, F for Fake, North America, Trademark, Henri Matisse, Han van Meegeren, and Johannes Vermeer

F for Fake () is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced,...

In this article: F for Fake, Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso, Citizen Kane, and B movie

Fernand Legros (26 January 1931-7 April 1983) was an art dealer who, together with his lover Real Lessard, sold the art forgeries of Elmyr de Hory. Legros first wished to be a ballet dancer. After World War II he moved from Cairo to Paris.

In this article: Fernand Legros, Paris, Ibiza, US Customs, World War II, Algur H. Meadows, Tintin and Alph-Art, and Tintin

...7 presentation. Years before Texas financier Allen Stanford and Madoff rocked the business world, the worldwide art market was dealing with Elmyr de Hory, a Hungarian-born artist who forged works by Picasso, Renoir and Matisse. Dutch forger...

In this article: Bernard Madoff, University of Utah, Dog, Mary Cunningham, and Malfeasance

...de Hory returned to Ibiza, by then a celebrity. He told his story to Clifford Irving who wrote the biography: Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time. Soon thereafter, Irving created his own forgery: a fake...

In this article: Fernand Legros, Clifford Irving, Ibiza, and Orson Welles

...title track became one of the band's most popular hits. Its lyrics include references to Leon Trotsky, Sancho Panza, Lenny Bruce and Elmyr de Hory. Hugh Cornwell: guitars, lead† and backing vocals J.J. Burnel : bass guitar, lead‡ and...

In this article: No More Heroes, The Stranglers, Sancho Panza, Martin Rushent, Leon Trotsky, Dave Greenfield, Hugh Cornwell, Lenny Bruce, and Rattus Norvegicus

...colleagues in Holland who warn that their lives might be in danger. Van Meegeren comes into the story, as does another intriguing forger, Elmyr de Hory (featured in Orson Welles' last film, "F is for Fake"). Various theories are explored via...

In this article: Nazism, Han van Meegeren, Robert-Jan van Pelt, Anne Frank, and Amsterdam

...Blair of the New York Times and Stephen Glass of the New Republic; the whole-cloth memoirs of James Frey; the art forgeries of Elmyr de Hory and Han van Meegeren; the provocations of conceptual artists like Sandow Birk (who created a...

In this article: Spectra, Stephen Glass, Han van Meegeren, E mail, and Small business

...dangerous person. "Forbidden Lie$" recalls Orson Welles' "F for Fake," the 1972 documentary, in which Welles depicts art forger Elmyr de Hory and his unscrupulous biographer Clifford Irving - a freewheeling film that is either the truth or...

In this article: Norma Khouri, Orson Welles, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbidden Lie$, Clifford Irving, F for Fake, Chicago, and Australia