Gérard Tichy

Gérard Tichy

actor

Gérard Tichy was born on Mar 11, 1920 in Germany. Gérard Tichy's big-screen debut came with Captain Blackjack directed by Julien Duvivier in 1950, strarring (as Gerardo Tichy). Gérard Tichy is known for L'île mystérieuse directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, Omar Sharif stars as Le capitaine Nemo and Gérard Tichy as Cyrus Smith. The upcoming new movie Gérard Tichy plays is The Sea Serpent which will be released on Jun 29, 2015.

One of the most familiar character actors of Spanish genre, horror, and exploitation cinema; Gérard Tichy was actually born Gerhard Johannes Alexander Tichy Wondzinski in Weißenfels, Germany, in 1920. A Lieutenant in the German Army during World War II, he was captured and imprisoned in a POW camp in Allied-occupied France, but escaped and fled to neutral Spain, where he decided to remain after the war ended. There he started his film career in the war epic Le noceur (1951) and quickly became a prominent character actor in Spanish cinema, ultimately appearing in over 100 films over the course of his career. He appeared in numerous spaghetti Westerns, notably Sergio Corbucci's Compañeros (1970). A capable (if not fluent) English speaker, Tichy also appeared in several international productions that were filmed in Spain, most notably Le roi des rois (1961) as Joseph, Le Cid (1961) playing King Ramirez, and Le docteur Jivago (1965) as partisan commander Liberius. He passed away in 1992, at the age of 72.

  • Birthday

    Mar 11, 1920
  • Place of Birth

    Weißenfels, Germany

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