Biography
Ticky Holgado (June 24, 1944, in Toulouse – January 22, 2004, in Paris), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Delicatessen (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado saw his acting talent acknowledged. Gérard Jugnot wrote for him the character of the beggar who meets the frame in the unemployment becoming NFA (played by Jugnot) in Une époque formidable (1990). He received the Caesar of the best male bit part in...
Known For
Complete Filmography
La Tête haute
2005
as Robert
The Courage to Love
2005
as Dieu
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self
A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Germain Pire
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...
Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens
2004
as God
Paris, December 1999. A group of Parisians cross paths. A police commissioner madly in love with his colleague's wife, a director looking for a subjec...
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
2003
as Passepoil
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ...
The Car Keys
2003
as Singer of the happy ending
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
2003
as Jojo
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
Ruby & Quentin
2003
as Martineau
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a so...
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002
as Boubou
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Shooting Stars
2002
as Angelo
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
Monsieur Batignole
2002
as Lucien Morel
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his gro...
An Afternoon
2001
as Le barbier
A small village in occupied France, 1943. Part of the war seems to rest on the shoulders of a sympathetic barber: the Nazi officer he’s shaving is at ...
Amélie
2001
as Man in Photo
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
as Jean Bordenave
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and pla...
Philosophale
2001
as Commissaire Ernest-August Mallory
Most Promising Young Actress
2000
as le sans-abri
Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to a...
Hallyday par Johnny
2000
as Self
Actors
2000
as Legless tramp
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...
Le Schpountz
1999
as Oncle Baptiste
Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to hi...
Le sourire du clown
1999
as Ian
A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with informatio...
Prison à domicile
1999
as Jules Klarh
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model pris...
Let There Be Light!
1998
as L'ange René
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
as Alcoholic Man
A young man's odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.
The Best Job in the World
1996
as Baudoin
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a po...
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
as le père de Loulou
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is ...
Let's Hope It Lasts
1996
as Joseph Ponty
Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the ...
Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "Claude Lelouch")
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
Funny Bones
1995
as Battiston
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—start...
Les Milles
1995
as Capitaine Moinard
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Le...
The City of Lost Children
1995
as Ex-Acrobat
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Les Miserables
1995
as Le gentil voyou / Kind Hoodlum
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see ...
French Twist
1995
as Antoine
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same...
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
1993
as Beaulouis
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The chil...
Lost in Transit
1993
as Serge
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of simi...
Drôles d'oiseaux
1993
as Benoit Cabane
The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of th...
Tango
1993
as Waiter
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to black...
The Honour of the Tribe
1993
as Martial
Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is Slimane...
The Supper
1992
as Jacques
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle ...
Leopard Ties
1992
as Magellan
The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maq...
My Life Is Hell
1991
as le diable
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervene...
Mother
1991
as Zakarians' angry and racist neighbor
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Mar...
Une époque formidable
1991
as 'Crayon'
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne,...
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Le Ténardier
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
Delicatessen
1991
as Marcel Tapioca
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...
De justesse
1991
Uranus
1990
as Mégrin, l'avocat
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The...
My Mother's Castle
1990
as Binucci, hunting whip
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills...
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
as Morvoisieux Son-in-Law
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a youn...
Sans peur et sans reproche
1988
as Mignard de Parthode
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
Lady Cops
1987
as Inspecteur Blondel
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge ...
Levy & Goliath
1987
as Fake hunchback
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same tr...
Sale destin
1987
Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit ...
Manon of the Spring
1986
as Rural engineering specialist
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots ven...
Nuit d'ivresse
1986
as L'électro
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up w...
Brigade of Death
1985
When the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.
Comment draguer tous les mecs
1984
Like every provincial girl arriving in Paris, Charlotte gets off the train with one idea in mind: to have fun, to flirt, to find a guy at all costs. B...
My New Partner
1984
as Alphonse
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner ...
Le fou du roi
1984
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
1983
as Ticky
Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
It's Called Catastrophe
1983
as Alphonse
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
1983
as Le planton
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen p...
On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
1982
as Le garagiste
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.
Belles, blondes et bronzées
1981
as Gus
Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.
Madame Claude 2
1981
as (uncredited)
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus ...
Les surdoués de la première compagnie
1981
as Warrant officer's neighbor (uncredited)
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, re...