Biography
Willy Holt (30 November 1921 – 22 June 2007) was an American production designer, art director and actor who lived in France for many years. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Is Paris Burning?, and won a César Award for Best Production Design for Au revoir, les enfants. Willy Holt was born in Quincy, Florida, in 1921, the son of an American military photographer and his French wife. After his parents divorced his mother returned with him to he...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Ninth Gate
1999
as Andrew Telfer
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates ...
A Shadowed Gaze
1998
For fifty years, Willy Holt was silent. He wanted to live, to have a family : he needed to forget. In 1995, however, this famous art director decided ...
My Man
1996
Production Design
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...
Bitter Moon
1992
Production Design
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
May Fools
1990
Production Design
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987
Production Design
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provinci...
A State of Emergency
1986
Production Design
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Mar...
Target
1985
Production Design
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
Les enragés
1985
Production Design
Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the ...
A Friend of Vincent
1983
Production Design
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent...
Zelig
1983
as Rally Chancellor
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act l...
The Ruffian
1983
Production Design
The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada.
Five Days One Summer
1982
Production Design
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
Production Design
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfrien...
A Business of Men
1981
Production Design
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder...
For a Cop's Hide
1981
as L'homme qui a tué Fanch Tanguy
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
The Other One's Mug
1979
Production Design
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious...
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
Art Direction
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...
Julia
1977
Production Design
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
The Gypsy
1975
Production Design
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Love and Death
1975
Art Direction
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
The Marseille Contract
1974
Production Design
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to...
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
Production Design
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, ...
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Set Designer
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...
The Annuity
1972
Production Design
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to t...
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
Art Direction
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on a...
Staircase
1969
Art Direction
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police of...
The Sergeant
1968
Production Design
Master Sgt. Albert Callan is a war hero and a no-nonsense leader who reforms his previously mismanaged military base. Although Callan seems collected,...
Two for the Road
1967
Art Direction
Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marr...
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Production Design
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if ...
The Train
1964
Production Design
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He...