Ticky Holgado

Biography

Joseph Holgado, known professionally as Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944 – 22 January 2004), was a French actor. Known for his short stature, distinctive face and heavy Southern accent, he was a frequent collaborator with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Holgado's original vocation was to be a musician. After playing in a band as a teenager, he found work in the French music industry and was eventually employed as a personal secretary by singer Claude François, then by Johnny Hallyday. He became an actor in his mid-thirties and began appearing in small roles, mostly in comedy films. He gradually became a familiar face in French films. In 1991, Holgado appeared in two films that allowed him to gain greater fame, Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, then Une époque formidable..., by Gérard Jugnot, where he played a part written especially for him. During the years that followed, Holgado was very active as a character actor. He was nominated twice to the César Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Une époque formidable..., then for French Twist (1994). In September 2003, Holgado announced the remission of his lung cancer, which had considerably rarefied his appearances on the screen since 2000. On 5 January 2004, he had just begun work on a new film with Claude Lelouch, but he succumbed to cancer on 22 January 2004. He left a posthumous message, in the form of a document which appeared on his hospital bed after taking him to surgery to remove his fourth cancerous tumor. Holgado declared there: "It is necessary to tell to people that it's absolutely necessary to stop smoking". Ticky Holgado was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (45th division). Source: Article "Ticky Holgado" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Most Known For

Vivement dimanche

as Self

Amélie

as Man in Photo

Zone interdite

as Self (archive footage)

Ruby & Quentin

as Martineau

Funny Bones

as Battiston

The City of Lost Children

as Ex-Acrobat

Mother

as Zakarians' angry and racist neighbor

Actors

as Legless tramp

Philosophale

as Commissaire Ernest-August Mallory

Delicatessen

as Marcel Tapioca

Monsieur Batignole

as Lucien Morel

Tango

as Waiter

Uranus

as Mégrin, l'avocat

A Very Long Engagement

as Germain Pire

The Hairdresser's Husband

as Morvoisieux Son-in-Law

My Mother's Castle

as Binucci, hunting whip

Manon of the Spring

as Rural engineering specialist

Sale Destin

Lumière & Company

as (segment "Claude Lelouch")

An Afternoon

as Le barbier