Ticky Holgado

Joseph Holgado , more known under its pseudonym Ticky Holgado , born the June 24th 1944 with Toulouse, dead the January 22nd 2004 with Paris, was a movie actor French. It has neither brother nor sister.

It launches out at 16 years in the music under the name of Ricky James (for Ricky Nelson and James Dean), then with a group baptized D' Oc d' Aïl. “One day, the presenter of the casino of Arcachon announced to me by calling me Ticky. That remained to me. ”

Holgado, which ensures to have received at his place Jimi Hendrix, is made engage as private secretary of Claude François then Wildcats of Dick Rivers and Johnny Hallyday of which he was a close friend. It deals then with the Martin Circus, interprets immortal One is burst in Senegal .

With Delicatessen (1990) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado sees its talent of recognized actor. Gerard Jugnot writes for him the character of the tramp whom the framework with unemployment becoming meets SDF (played by Jugnot itself) in One formidable time (1990). This role will be worth with the actor a popular dedication.

The actor turned on the whole an about sixty films, in particular with Gerard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Gerard Oury, Claude Berri, Henri Verneuil, Edouard Molinaro, Gerard Lauzier, and more recently Claude Lelouch ( Hommes, women, directions for use , 1996), Bertrand Blier ( the Actors , 1999), Jean-Pierre Jeunet ( the Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain , 2000).

He was named for the César of the male best supporting role in 1992 for One formidable time and in 1996 for cursed Gazon . He collapses under the proposals, refuses some the least possible.

He takes again his musical activities with the Clap Shooters and records its first disc. Holgado forever have time to concretize its project of setting in scene, a “Pyrenean western” which would tell “a door - closed with 180 people”. Its autobiography, which paradoxically spares a broad place with mythomania and the autodérision, is entitled Thirty Years of mess.

In September 2003, the actor announces the remission of the Cancer lung, which had considerably rarefied its appearances with the screen since 2000. The January 5th 2004, it has just begun the turning of new Lelouch whereas it has suffered for several months from a cancer to which it succumbs the January 22nd 2004.

It leaves a posthumous message, in the shape of a document, carried out by his friend Claude Lelouch. This document shows it on its bed of hospital after his 4th cancerous tumor was removed to him. Holgado declared there: “It should be said to people that it is completely necessary to stop smoking ”.

Ticky Holgado rests with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.

Catalog of films

Television

Discography

  • 1969: Sad Harold/Ventilated Perennius (Disc AZ SG 101) ( with Docdaïl )
  • 1970: Stone Me/Why C You Cry (Disc AZ SG 149) ( with Docdaïl )
  • 1974: It is owl the clubes/Instrumental (Polydor 2056 334) ( Under the name of Leon )

Autobiography

  • Thirty Years of mess

External bonds

  • Ticky Holgado on allociné
  • Discography on Bide & music

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