# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmyr-de-hory
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:02.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmyr-de-hory"
name: "Elmyr de Hory"
slug: "elmyr-de-hory"
description: "Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974)."
tagline: "Hungarian painter & art forger (1906-1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ElmyDeHoryASantAntoni2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1906-04-14"
deathDate: "1976-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.84
  momentum:             1.476121562952243
  historical:           14.122976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208885/"
    handle:    "nm0208885"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.elmyr.net"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hory_Elem%C3%A9r"
    title: "Hory Elemér"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%AC%D5%B4%D5%AB%D6%80_%D5%A4%D5%A8_%D5%80%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB"
    title: "Էլմիր դը Հորի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "エルミア・デ・ホーリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Элмир де Хори"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%DA%88%DB%8C_%DB%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "ایلمیر ڈی ہوری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143085"
    title: "Elmyr de Hory"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump