

Cast & creator
Best known for Vivement dimanche, Amélie, Zone interdite
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.
Also known as: Tiky Holgado, Tiki Holgado, Rocky James, Tiki Olgado, Joseph Tiky
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1964–2005 · acting roles
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Self
1998
Man in Photo
2001
Self (archive footage)
1993
Ex-Acrobat
1995
Martineau
2003
Maurice, electro
1986
Germain Pire
2004
Marcel Tapioca
1991
Rural engineering specialist
1986
Morvoisieux Son-in-Law
1990
Legless tramp
2000
Self
1964
Battiston
1995
Lucien Morel
2002
Binucci, hunting whip
1990
Antoine
1995
Zakarians' angry and racist neighbor
1991
Boubou
2002
Commissaire Ernest-August Mallory
2001
Alphonse
1984
Ian
1999Self
1999
le père de Loulou
1996
Waiter
1993
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
1995
Kind Hoodlum
1995
Mignard de Parthode
1988
Baudoin
1996

(uncredited)
1981
L'ange René
1998
Happy Ending Singer
2003
Mégrin, l'avocat
1990
Dieu
2005
Warrant officer's neighbor (uncredited)
1981
Le Ténardier
1991
Gus
1981
le diable
1991
Jean Bordenave
2001
God
2004
Le planton
1983
Angelo
2002
'Crayon'
1991
Ticky
1983
Alcoholic Man
1997
Self
2005
le sans-abri
2000
Martial
1993
Le garagiste
1982
Alphonse
1983Le barbier
2001
Capitaine Moinard
1995
Serge
1993
Fake hunchback
1987Brother Gontran
1984
Benoit Cabane
1993
Joseph Ponty
1996
Magellan
1992
Passepoil
2003

Inspecteur Blondel
1987
Beaulouis
1993
Scordia
1994
Geux
1984
Self
2000
Jules Klarh
1999
Oncle Baptiste
1999
Robert
2005
Barman
1985
Jacques
1992
Jojo
2003