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Xavier Deluc‌

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Xavier Deluc

Caen, Calvados, France

Xavier Deluc

Caen, Calvados, France

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1958-03-18

Popularity

star4.0

Biography

Xavier Deluc (born 18 March 1958) is a French actor, director and scriptwriter. He is most known for acting in TV series such as 'Marc Eliot' (a French police drama), Dolmen (Brittany based family drama) and 12 seasons of 'Research Unit' (another specialized French police drama) as 'Captain Martin Bernier', and starring role in movies including He Died with His Eyes Open in 1985 and Captive in 1986. Xavier Lepetit was born in Caen in Calvados. His childhood was spent in Jacob-Mesnil, a hamlet just near Bretteville-sur-Laize. He was raised in boarding school in Lisieux. When he turned 14 he got involved in amateur dramatics and performed in his first short film. Aged twenty, he went to Paris and enrolls in the Cours Florent (a private drama school). The actor Robert Hossein then noticed him. Xavier recalls that "I was the only blond, - I was taken!". Hossein then gave him his first role as the young 'Edgar Linton' in his play 'Les Hauts de Hurlevent' (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë), performed in the theater of Boulogne-Billancourt and Lyon in 1979. It was under his birth name, Xavier Lepetit while aged 22, that he debuted in his first film Les surdoués de la première compagnie, directed by Michel Gérard in 1981, before joining Max Pécas for Belles, blondes et bronzées (also in 1981) and Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez in 1983. In 1984, he was in Yannick Bellon's film La Triche (The Cheat), a distributor then asked him to take a pseudonym to improve the posters. The actor thought of his weekends in Luc-sur-Mer on the Côte de Nacre, where he spent a lot of his time, he then becomes Xavier Deluc. Thanks to his performance in the film, he was named as the most promising actor at the 10th César ceremony of 1985. Then the following year, at the 11th ceremony of the César, where he is nominated as the best actor in a supporting role for He Died with His Eyes Open by Jacques Deray, just after completing Robert Kramer's science-fiction film Diesel in 1985. He is also a theater actor, performing in Jean-Claude Brisville's The Blue Villa at Espace Cardin theatre (Paris) in 1986. He then met director Jean Marais at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens to don 'Hans' costume in Jean Cocteau's play Bacchus in 1988. Xavier later said about Jean Marais, that "I did not know how to die and (he) taught me to die on stage". In 1989, he starred with James Wilby and Serena Gordon in a two-part TV mini-series of A Tale of Two Cities for ITV Granada. The production also aired on Masterpiece Theatre on the PBS in the United States. In 1991, he started a campaign called 'No to drugs, Yes to life' based on his own previous drug abuse, he then staged his self=written play called 'La Pluie du Soleil' (or "The rain of the sun") performed at the Comédie-Caumartin theater. In 1991 he also recorded a duet single with Viktor Lazlo called "Baiser sacré" on the Polydor label. From 1998 to 2005, he starred in the Marc Eliot television series and then in 2006, he landed his most important role in his television career, performing the Major, then Lieutenant, then Captain Martin Bernier, main character of the series 'Research Unit', which in 2018 reached the twelfth season, with him being the only surviving cast member since the start. ... Source: Article "Xavier Deluc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

Marié(s) ou presque

Marié(s) ou presque‌
star0.0
calendar 2008

Un jour avant l'aube

Un jour avant l'aube‌
star4.0
calendar 1994

The Cheat

The Cheat‌
star3.6
calendar 1984

États d'âme

États d'âme‌
star4.0
calendar 1986

Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée

Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée‌
star5.4
calendar 1986

L'Affaire Dreyfus

L'Affaire Dreyfus‌
star5.8
calendar 1995

He Died with His Eyes Open

He Died with His Eyes Open‌
star5.9
calendar 1985

Diesel

Diesel‌
star4.7
calendar 1985

Belles, blondes et bronzées

Belles, blondes et bronzées‌
star3.1
calendar 1981

The Seducers of Saint-Tropez

The Seducers of Saint-Tropez‌
star3.5
calendar 1983

Captive

Captive‌
star2.7
calendar 1986

Private Tuition

Private Tuition‌
star5.3
calendar 1986

Blood Sisters

Blood Sisters‌
star1.0
calendar 1997

L'homme au double visage

L'homme au double visage‌
star0.0
calendar 1993

Changement de cap

Changement de cap‌
star7.0
calendar 2014

A Winter in Paris

A Winter in Paris‌
star5.5
calendar 2006

La Brute

La Brute‌
star5.0
calendar 1987

Celle qui n'existait pas

Celle qui n'existait pas‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

The Temptation of Isabelle

The Temptation of Isabelle‌
star5.6
calendar 1985

Cayenne Palace

Cayenne Palace‌
star2.3
calendar 1987

The Orinoco Dam

The Orinoco Dam‌
star6.0
calendar 1996

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

Let Sleeping Cops Lie‌
star5.6
calendar 1988

The Pianist

The Pianist‌
star7.0
calendar 1998

Les surdoués de la première compagnie

Les surdoués de la première compagnie‌
star3.5
calendar 1981

Tv Credits

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

Joséphine, Guardian Angel‌
star6.0
calendar 1997

Sud lointain

Sud lointain‌
star0.0
calendar 1997

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight‌
star3.0
calendar 1992

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval‌
star8.5
calendar 1994

Riviera

Riviera‌
star1.0
calendar 1991

Murders in...

Murders in...‌
star7.2
calendar 2013

Dolmen

Dolmen‌
star4.2
calendar 2005

Research Unit

Research Unit‌
star8.4
calendar 2006

La ligne noire

La ligne noire‌
star0.0
calendar 2002

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities‌
star5.0
calendar 1989

Terre indigo

Terre indigo‌
star0.0
calendar 1996

Série noire

Série noire‌
star7.0
calendar 1984

The Octopus

The Octopus‌
star8.0
calendar 1984

Tomorrow Is Ours

Tomorrow Is Ours‌
star6.2
calendar 2017

Champs-Elysées

Champs-Elysées‌
star6.5
calendar 1982

Police Commissioner Moulin

Police Commissioner Moulin‌
star5.8
calendar 1976

Marc Eliot

Marc Eliot‌
star10.0
calendar 1998

Camping paradis

Camping paradis‌
star5.6
calendar 2006

Le monde est à vous

Le monde est à vous‌
star0.0
calendar 1987