Willy Holt

Willy Holt

1921-11-30 Quincy, Florida, USA 31 Credits

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...

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The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate

1999

as Andrew Telfer

6.5
Acting

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

A Shadowed Gaze

1998

Acting

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

My Man

1996

Production Design

5.8

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

Bitter Moon

1992

Production Design

7.1

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

May Fools

May Fools

1990

Production Design

6.9

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

Au Revoir les Enfants

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987

Production Design

7.5

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

A State of Emergency

1986

Production Design

1.3

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

Target

1985

Production Design

5.9

A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.

Les enragés

Les enragés

1985

Production Design

6.0

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

A Friend of Vincent

1983

Production Design

5.9

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

Zelig

1983

as Rally Chancellor

7.4
Acting

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

The Ruffian

1983

Production Design

6.2

The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada.

Five Days One Summer

Five Days One Summer

1982

Production Design

5.9

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

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982

Production Design

7.3

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

A Business of Men

1981

Production Design

5.9

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

For a Cop's Hide

1981

as L'homme qui a tué Fanch Tanguy

5.9
Acting

Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

The Other One's Mug

The Other One's Mug

1979

Production Design

5.6

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

An Almost Perfect Affair

1979

Art Direction

4.5

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

Julia

1977

Production Design

6.5

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

The Gypsy

The Gypsy

1975

Production Design

6.4

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

Love and Death

Love and Death

1975

Art Direction

7.5

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

The Marseille Contract

The Marseille Contract

1974

Production Design

5.9

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

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

1974

Production Design

6.4

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

The Day of the Jackal

1973

Set Designer

7.5

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

The Annuity

1972

Production Design

6.6

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

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1970

Art Direction

4.9

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

Staircase

1969

Art Direction

5.7

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

The Sergeant

1968

Production Design

6.3

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

Two for the Road

1967

Art Direction

7.0

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?

Is Paris Burning?

1966

Production Design

7.2

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

The Train

1964

Production Design

7.5

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...