The movie follows the exploits of a famous art forger, his biographer Clifford Irving, and the subsequent fake autobiography of Howard Hughes that Irving tries to publish.

** Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes ' " autobiography ".

For the movie Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an " authorized " autobiography of Howard Hughes that had been revealed to be a hoax.

While still a student, Harris rented the tiny " off-West End " Irving Theatre, and there directed his own production of Clifford Odets's play Winter Journey ( The Country Girl ).

After a few more moderate hits, in 1949 he released his version of the 1922 Clifford Friend & Irving Mills song " Lovesick Blues ", made popular by Rex Griffin.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

* On a Darkling Plain by Clifford Irving, A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve, As On a Darkling Plain by Ben Bova ( the title refers to a Martian plain covered with strange unexplained artifacts ), Clash by Night, a play by Clifford Odets ( later made into a film noir by Fritz Lang ), " Ignorant Armies " by Sam Wharton, and Norman Mailer's National Book Award winner The Armies of the Night about the 1967 March on the Pentagon.

In January 1970, the play enjoyed its first Broadway revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, directed by Jules Irving and starring Al Pacino ( Kilroy ), Victor Buono ( Gutman ), Patrick McVey ( Don Quixote ), Jean-Pierre Aumont ( Casanova ), Jessica Tandy ( Camille ), Sylvia Syms ( the Gypsy ), David J. Stewart ( the Baron ), Susan Tyrrell ( Esmeralda ), and Clifford David ( Lord Byron ).

* The Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes biography ( 1972 )

The school's faculty includes Irving Reed, Leonard Adleman, Solomon W. Golomb, Barry Boehm, Clifford Newman, Richard Bellman, Lloyd Welch, Alexander Sawchuk, and George V. Chilingar.

Clifford Irving offered a pseudo-autobiographical version of Mix's early adulthood, drawing him as a brash young gringo who befriends and then joins up with the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in the novel Tom Mix and Pancho Villa ( 1982 ).

Youmans collaborated with the greatest songwriters on Broadway: Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Buddy De Sylva and Gus Kahn.

Clifford Michael Irving ( born ) is an American investigative reporter and author of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for his hoax " autobiography " of reclusive and eccentric businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s.

Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me ( 1966 ) continues the iconoclastic Cornell Bildungsroman of the fifties by Clifford Irving, On a Darkling Plain ( 1956 ); Charles Thompson, Halfway Down the Stairs ( 1957 ); and Robert Gutwillig, After Long Silence ( 1958 ).

Hughes's lawyer, Chester Davis, filed suit against McGraw-Hill, Life, Clifford Irving, and Dell Publications.

When Swiss police visited the Irvings on Ibiza, Clifford Irving tried to hint that he might have been dealing with an impostor.

Other representations attracting wide exposure have included Jeb Stuart Magruder during the Watergate period ; President Richard Nixon ’ s close confidant Bebe Rebozo ; Oscar Wyatt ; Clifford Irving ; and on an international level, among others, Philippines General Fabian Ver.

His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake, and from F for Fake ( 1974 ), a documentary essay film by Orson Welles.

Most of the information regarding de Hory's early life comes from what he told American writer Clifford Irving, himself a fraudster, who wrote the first biography about him.

Since Elmyr's success was reliant upon his skills of deception and invention, it would be difficult to take the facts that he told about his own life at face value, as Clifford Irving himself admitted.

He told his story to Clifford Irving who wrote the biography: Fake!

The first white baby born in the Gilbert Plains district was Myrtle McCurdy, while the first white boy was Gilbert Clifford Best in 1900.

He and his brother Cliff ( Clifford Thomas Holt, born 1910 ) spent their early life in Sydney and attended three different schools in Sydney and Adelaide between 1913 and 1919.

Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Julian Clifford Jaynes ( 1854 – 1922 ), a Unitarian minister, and Clara Bullard Jaynes ( 1884-1980 ).

Pemberton was born to James Clifford Pemberton ( born 1803 in North Carolina ) and Martha L. Gant ( born 1803 in Virginia ), both of English descent.

* Clifford Martin Will ( born 1946 ), a Canadian born mathematical physicist

Clifford Piper, Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness was born at Tintagel.

Clifford was born in Fort Scott, Kansas.

Bertie Clifford was the first baby born before Eustis was incorporated in 1883, and Edith Hutchins the first baby of the newly incorporated town.

Keel was born Harold Clifford Keel in Gillespie, Illinois, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel and his wife, Grace Osterkamp Keel.

* Clifford Meth ( born 1961 ), author, often refers to places in Rockaway, NJ, in his stories.

* Clifford Meth ( born 1961 ), author and editor, lived in Rockaway from 1963 – 1980 and often references the town as the home of his fictional character " Hank Magitz ".

John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook ( all born 1945 ) met at Portola Junior High School in El Cerrito, California and began playing instrumentals and " juke box standards " together under the name The Blue Velvets.

Mark Clifford Thomas ( born 11 April 1963 ) is an English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London.

Robertson was born on September 9, 1923 in La Jolla, California, the son of Clifford Parker Robertson, Jr. ( 1902 – 1968 ), and his first wife, the former Audrey Olga Willingham ( 1903-1925 ).

Penelope Alice Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Alice Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, and Clifford Wilton, a businessman.

* April 21-Lucy Clifford, British novelist ( born 1846 )

Clifford Etienne ( born March 9, 1970 in Lafayette, Louisiana ), also known as " The Black Rhino ", is a former American boxer, who is currently serving a 150 year prison sentence without possibility of parole.

* April 22-Henry Clifford, legal writer ( born 1768 )

Cruz had two children ; Carlos, Jr. ( born 1962 ) who has four children, Bradely Cruz ( born 1990 ) Clifford Allen Cruz & Clifton Allen Cruz ( born 1992 ), Brandon Miguel Cruz ( born 1996 ), and Hermina ( born 1963 ) having 2 children Alexis Tatia Cruz ( born 1998 ) and Bryant Lope Cruz