Xavier Deluc

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 compagni…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Tomorrow Is Ours (2017) — Procureur Sébastien Perraud
2. The Octopus (1984) — Lorenzo Ribeira
3. Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988) — Lutz
4. He Died with His Eyes Open (1985) — Hugo Spark
5. Joséphine, Guardian Angel (1997) — Alexandre
6. Private Tuition (1986) — Laurent
7. The Seducers of Saint-Tropez (1983) — Christian
8. Murders in... (2013) — Walter Beaumont
9. Belles, blondes et bronzées (1981) — Marc
10. The Cheat (1984) — Bernard
11. Dolmen (2005) — Christian Bréhat
12. Research Unit (2006) — Martin Bernier
13. Camping Paradis (2006) — Thierry
14. The Temptation of Isabelle (1985) — Alain
15. A Winter in Paris (2006) — L'homme d'Hélène
16. L'Affaire Dreyfus (1995) — Lucien Herr
17. Diesel (1985) — Drimi
18. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
19. Police Commissioner Moulin (1976) — Veraghen
20. Cayenne Palace (1987) — Mathieu
21. The Pianist (1998) — Larsen
22. Les surdoués de la première compagnie (1981) — Fred
23. Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon (1986) — Bernard
24. Captive (1986) — D
25. Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (1994) — Roland
26. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
27. Blood Sisters (1997) — Manocci
28. La Brute (1987) — Jacques Vauthier
29. The Orinoco Dam (1996) — Ugo
30. A Tale of Two Cities (1989) — Charles Darnay
31. Un jour avant l'aube (1994) — Lieutenant Maury
32. États d'âme (1986) — Michel
33. Changement de cap (2014) — Alex Legrand
34. Love at First Sight (1992) — David
35. Riviera (1991) — Christophe
36. Marc Eliot (1998) — Marc Eliot
37. La Battante (2005) — Jérôme Arfan
38. L'homme au double visage (1993) — Serge Dauvet / Jacques Verdone
39. Celle qui n'existait pas (2004)
40. Far South (1997) — Alban Saint Reaux

Directed

1. Tombé d'une étoile (2007) — Director