Ticky Holgado, pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, (Toulouse, June 24, 1944 - Paris, January 22, 2004) was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
With Delicatessen (1990) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado sees his talent of acknowledged actor. Gérard Jugnot writes for him the figure of the beggar whom meets the frame in the unemployment becoming NFA (played by Jugnot) in Une époque formidable (1990). It was named for the Caesar of the best masculine bit part in 1992 for Une époque formidable and in 1996 for Gazon maudit. It collapses under proposals, refuses the least possible there.
In September 2003, the actor announces the remission of the lung cancer, which had considerably rarefied its appearances in the screen since 2000. On January 5th, 2004, it has just begun the filming of the new Lelouch while he suffers for several months of a cancer to which he succumbs January 22nd, 2004 It leaves a posthumous message, in the form of a document, accomplished by his friend Claude Lelouch. This document shows it on its bed of hospital after they take from him away his 4th cancerous tumour. 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.
Personal secretary of singers Claude François (III) and Johnny Hallyday (I).
He has a lung cancer for long time and was hospitalised for the first time in 1992
Rock singer in the group "Ricky James & les Plastiqueurs"
