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Xavier Deluc

Acting 67 years old Caen, Calvados, France ★ 0.3
Born: March 18, 1958

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.

Filmography

Acting Credits (45)

Tomorrow Is Ours
Tomorrow Is Ours Procureur Sébastien Perraud 2017
Changement de cap
Changement de cap Alex Legrand 2014
Murders in...
Murders in... Walter Beaumont 2013
Marié(s) ou presque
Marié(s) ou presque Philippe VRP 2008
Camping Paradis
Camping Paradis Thierry 2006
Research Unit
Research Unit Martin Bernier 2006
A Winter in Paris
A Winter in Paris L'homme d'Hélène 2006
Dolmen
Dolmen Christian Bréhat 2005
La Battante
La Battante Jérôme Arfan 2005
Celle qui n'existait pas
Celle qui n'existait pas 2004
La ligne noire
La ligne noire Commissaire Scherer 2002
Marc Eliot
Marc Eliot Marc Eliot 1998
The Pianist
The Pianist Larsen 1998
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Joséphine, Guardian Angel Alexandre 1997
Blood Sisters
Blood Sisters Manocci 1997
Far South
Far South Alban Saint Reaux 1997
The Orinoco Dam
The Orinoco Dam Ugo 1996
Terre indigo
Terre indigo Pierre Vallogne / Louis Debarbera 1996
L'Affaire Dreyfus
L'Affaire Dreyfus Lucien Herr 1995
Un jour avant l'aube
Un jour avant l'aube Lieutenant Maury 1994
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval Roland 1994
L'homme au double visage
L'homme au double visage Serge Dauvet / Jacques Verdone 1993
Love at First Sight
Love at First Sight David 1992
Riviera
Riviera Christophe 1991
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Darnay 1989
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Let Sleeping Cops Lie Lutz 1988
Cayenne Palace
Cayenne Palace Mathieu 1987
Le monde est à vous
Le monde est à vous Self 1987
Sacrée Soirée
Sacrée Soirée Self 1987
La Brute
La Brute Jacques Vauthier 1987
Private Tuition
Private Tuition Laurent 1986
Captive
Captive D 1986
Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon
Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon Bernard 1986
États d'âme
États d'âme Michel 1986
The Temptation of Isabelle
The Temptation of Isabelle Alain 1985
He Died with His Eyes Open
He Died with His Eyes Open Hugo Spark 1985
Diesel
Diesel Drimi 1985
The Cheat
The Cheat Bernard 1984
The Octopus
The Octopus Lorenzo Ribeira 1984
Série noire
Série noire 1984
The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
The Seducers of Saint-Tropez Christian 1983
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées Self 1982
Belles, blondes et bronzées
Belles, blondes et bronzées Marc 1981
Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Les surdoués de la première compagnie Fred 1981
Police Commissioner Moulin
Police Commissioner Moulin Veraghen 1976

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