Willy Holt
Age: N/A | From: Quincy, Florida, USA
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Aliases: William Holt , Will Holt
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Quincy, Florida, USA
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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 her home country, where he was naturalised as a French citizen in 1923. He graduated with a baccalauréat from the Lycée Fermat in Toulouse during the early years of the Occupation. Holt was married for four years to the actress Micheline Bourday, subsequently marrying the actress Martine Pascal in 1958. He and Pascal had two children. Holt was a member of the French Resistance and was arrested at Grenoble railway station in December 1943 while transferring money on behalf of anti-Nazi Resistance fighters. He was interned at Auschwitz, via the Drancy internment camp. He survived the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where he was one of those liberated on 13 April 1945. Holt wrote about his wartime experiences in his 1995 book Femmes en deuil sur camion. After briefly working as a fashion designer, Holt was hired to work in television in 1946. His set designs for several television shows led to further work in cinema, initially as an art director. As befitted his Franco-American origins, Holt worked on several productions in both countries, collaborating with a number of internationally renowned film directors such as John Frankenheimer, Stanley Donen, Otto Preminger, Robert Parrish, Fred Zinnemann, Bertrand Blier, Woody Allen, Michael Ritchie, Louis Malle and Roman Polanski. Source: Article "Willy Holt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Famous Work
Bitter Moon
(1992) Production Design
The Day of the Jackal
(1973) Set Designer
The Train
(1964) Production Design
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
(1982) Production Design
Love and Death
(1975) Art Direction
Is Paris Burning?
(1966) Production Design
Au Revoir les Enfants
(1987) Production Design
Two for the Road
(1967) Art DirectionActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1999 | Andrew Telfer | |
| 1998 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Rally Chancellor | |
| 1981 | L'homme qui a tué Fanch Tanguy | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Art
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1996 | Production Design | |
| 1992 | Production Design | |
| 1990 | Production Design | |
| 1987 | Production Design | |
| 1986 | Production Design | |
| 1985 | Production Design | |
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| 1983 | Production Design | |
| Production Design | ||
| 1982 | Production Design | |
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| 1981 | Production Design | |
| 1979 | Production Design | |
| Art Direction | ||
| 1977 | Production Design | |
| 1975 | Production Design | |
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| 1974 | Production Design | |
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| 1973 | Set Designer | |
| 1972 | Production Design | |
| 1970 | Art Direction | |
| 1969 | Art Direction | |
| 1968 | Production Design | |
| 1967 | Art Direction | |
| 1966 | Production Design | |
| 1964 | Production Design | |
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