Xavier Deluc

Xavier Deluc

Born: March 18, 1958
in Caen, Calvados, France
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. ...

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Movies for Xavier Deluc...

Title: Tomorrow Is Ours
Character: Procureur Sébastien Perraud
Released: July 17, 2017
Type: TV
The story revolves around the people of Sète, France. Their lives are punctuated by family rivalries, romance and scenes from daily life, but also by plots involving police investigations, secrets and betrayals.
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Changement de cap
Title: Changement de cap
Character: Alex Legrand
Released: December 16, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Walter Beaumont
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Marié(s) ou presque
Title: Marié(s) ou presque
Character: Philippe VRP
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests that night give their opinion of the marriage, its setbacks and its amenities.
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Title: Research Unit
Character: Martin Bernier
Released: May 11, 2006
Type: TV
The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders.
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A Winter in Paris
Title: A Winter in Paris
Character: L'homme d'Hélène
Released: March 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich heiress.
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Title: Dolmen
Character: Christian Bréhat
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
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Celle qui n'existait pas
Title: Celle qui n'existait pas
Released: December 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Anna, a young Russian student, finds herself in France, forced into prostitution by a mafia network. She manages to escape, but in an illegal situation and without money, she finds herself on the street. She meets two undocumented migrants, a Senegalese and a Romanian in an illegal situation. Both will help her to survive and to try to escape from the mafia.
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Title: La ligne noire
Character: Commissaire Scherer
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Marc Eliot
Character: Marc Eliot
Released: December 17, 1998
Type: TV
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Larsen
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Alexandre
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
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Blood Sisters
Title: Blood Sisters
Character: Manocci
Released: November 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal race on the highway. But at a gas station, a somewhat eccentric old woman discreetly slips into the vehicle. Garance has a habit of randomly taking a seat in other people's cars, with only her suitcase and a binder bearing the title "The Flight Ceremony of the Northern Gannet". Melanie's suicidal plans are thwarted by this nuisance, whom she does not hesitate to inveigh against. But anger soon gives way to affection.
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Title: Sud lointain
Character: Alban Saint Reaux
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
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The Orinoco Dam
Title: The Orinoco Dam
Character: Ugo
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.
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Title: Terre indigo
Character: Pierre Vallogne / Louis Debarbera
Released: July 8, 1996
Type: TV
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L'Affaire Dreyfus
Title: L'Affaire Dreyfus
Character: Lucien Herr
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
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Un jour avant l'aube
Title: Un jour avant l'aube
Character: Lieutenant Maury
Released: May 14, 1994
Type: Movie
At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.
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L'homme au double visage
Title: L'homme au double visage
Character: Serge Dauvet / Jacques Verdone
Released: August 8, 1993
Type: Movie
At gunpoint, a plastic surgeon must operate on a criminal to escape the police. But when the criminal returns for treatment, the doctor plans to take revenge on his unfaithful wife.
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Title: Charlemagne
Character: Roland
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: TV
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: David
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Riviera
Character: Christophe
Released: December 31, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Charles Darnay
Released: May 21, 1989
Type: TV
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Title: Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Character: Lutz
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
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Cayenne Palace
Title: Cayenne Palace
Character: Mathieu
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft son who has come from France to the tropical South American country to look for his father, who fled from the prison and disappeared years ago. He runs into serious opposition from the owner of a hotel and bar known as Cayenne-Palace. The man also happens to be at the center of all the illegal goings-on in the region. However, Noel is not entirely without friends, as his half-brother Xavier and the people of the jungle are on his side.
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La Brute
Title: La Brute
Character: Jacques Vauthier
Released: July 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to his wife. His lawyer, Mr. Deliot, however, will try to discover the truth, because he is convinced that his client is innocent.
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Private Tuition
Title: Private Tuition
Character: Laurent
Released: November 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.
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Captive
Title: Captive
Character: D
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.
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Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée
Title: Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée
Character: Bernard
Released: August 27, 1986
Type: Movie
This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the usual daily routine for the retired pair of former teachers (Micheline Presle and Claude Pieplu). Then their son telephones to say he will be coming over with his girlfriend and the normal pattern is changed, as he visits them rarely. While the mother is obsequious to her son when he arrives, past hurts and resentments bubble up during lunch, making it difficult for the son to tell them he is getting married. This is news enough, but the effect that announcement has on the son and his fiancée is unexpected and events later on in the day take a turn for the worse.
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États d'âme
Title: États d'âme
Character: Michel
Released: May 28, 1986
Type: Movie
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
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The Temptation of Isabelle
Title: The Temptation of Isabelle
Character: Alain
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain in the past, Bruno invites Alain to a surprise birthday party for her at a hotel -- what better way to judge her feelings than to get them together? Alain arrives with his current girlfriend Lio. Soon after the two couples start the evening off, their polite exteriors deteriorate.
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He Died with His Eyes Open
Title: He Died with His Eyes Open
Character: Hugo Spark
Released: October 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
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Diesel
Title: Diesel
Character: Drimi
Released: August 7, 1985
Type: Movie
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Bernard
Released: August 8, 1984
Type: Movie
In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.
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Title: The Octopus
Character: Lorenzo Ribeira
Released: March 11, 1984
Type: TV
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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Title: Série noire
Released: January 28, 1984
Type: TV
Série noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series was adapted from crime books by the publishing imprint of the same name. 36 episodes were filmed between 1984 and 1989, and were aired until 1991 on TF1.
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The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
Title: The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
Character: Christian
Released: September 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Belles, blondes et bronzées
Title: Belles, blondes et bronzées
Character: Marc
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Title: Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Character: Fred
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Veraghen
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.