Mark William Hofmann (born December 7, 1954) is an American counterfeiter, forger, and convicted murderer. Her paternal grandfather was a robber and counterfeiter. Finley wrote that Alston became a "fast friend and disciple of the notorious counterfeiter, Sturdevant". Carl Banks (Jim Varney) is a dangerous counterfeiter and escapes from jail. Herber was an alleged counterfeiter to whom Count Castell had awarded asylum. Abdul Karim Telgi (1961-2017) was a convicted Indian counterfeiter. The counterfeiter pleads ignorance and is subsequently killed. His paternal uncle, John Alston, was also a counterfeiter. Sreedevi tells Aravindan about an old master counterfeiter Mayyanadu Iyyappan. All traces of the master counterfeiter Smolianoff were lost after his liberation. Learning that Curly Joe is the counterfeiter, Wyatt goes after the man himself. On the ship to South America, Papillon meets a quirky counterfeiter named Louis Dega. One official counterfeiter was Will Ford's father, William F. Ford. Here, the counterfeiter was an elderly lady, played by Spring Byington. As in history, he was presented as a counterfeiter and British agent.