F for Fake
A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.
7.4(366) 1973-09-01 89 minDocumentary
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 name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
DirectorOrson Welles
ProducerDominique Antoine
WriterOrson Welles
Original Music ComposerMichel Legrand
WriterFrançois Reichenbach
DirectorFrançois Reichenbach
Cast & characters
Orson Welles
as Self
Oja Kodar
as The Girl
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Elmyr de Hory
as Self
Clifford Irving
as Self
Laurence Harvey
as Self
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Edith Irving
as Self
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David Walsh
as Self
Paul Stewart
as Self
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Richard Wilson
as Self
Joseph Cotten
as Self
Howard Hughes
as Self (archive footage)
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Richard Drewett
as Self
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Alexander Welles
as Self
Gary Graver
as Self
Andrés Vicente Gómez
as Self
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Julio Palinkas
as Self
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Christian Odasso
as Self
Françoise Widhoff
as Self
Peter Bogdanovich
as Self
William Alland
as Self
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Mark Forgy
as Self
Nina van Pallandt
as Self
François Reichenbach
as Self
