Xavier Deluc

Acting

Xavier Deluc

Born

1958-03-18 (68)

Place of birth

Caen, Calvados, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

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 Pari…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 6 titles

L'Affaire Dreyfus poster
5.9

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!"

L'Affaire Dreyfus

1995

The Orinoco Dam poster
6.7

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.

The Orinoco Dam

1996

The Pianist poster
7.8

This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa 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.

The Pianist

1998

Un jour avant l'aube poster
6.0

At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.

Un jour avant l'aube

1994

No artwork available
10.0

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.

L'homme au double visage

1993

Blood Sisters poster
4.2

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.

Blood Sisters

1997

1980s · 14 titles

The Seducers of Saint-Tropez poster
4.1

Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.

The Seducers of Saint-Tropez

1983

The Cheat poster
4.4

In Bordeaux, a gay man's murder leads Inspector Verta to investigate. He develops feelings for Bernard, a musician suspect, jeopardizing his marriage and impartiality in the case.

The Cheat

1984

He Died with His Eyes Open poster
5.6

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.

He Died with His Eyes Open

1985

Let Sleeping Cops Lie poster
5.4

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.

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

1988

Belles, blondes et bronzées poster
3.9

Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.

Belles, blondes et bronzées

1981

Diesel poster
5.1

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.

Diesel

1985

The Temptation of Isabelle poster
5.7

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.

The Temptation of Isabelle

1985

Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon poster
5.7

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.

Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon

1986

Private Tuition poster
5.4

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.

Private Tuition

1986

Les surdoués de la première compagnie poster
3.8

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.

Les surdoués de la première compagnie

1981

Cayenne Palace poster
3.7

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.

Cayenne Palace

1987

États d'âme poster
7.0

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.

États d'âme

1986

Captive poster
4.0

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Captive

1986

La Brute poster
5.8

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.

La Brute

1987

Series credits

Tomorrow Is Ours poster
6.3

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.

Tomorrow Is Ours

2017

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Le monde est à vous poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le monde est à vous

1987

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

Riviera poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Riviera

1991

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

The Octopus poster
7.8

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.

The Octopus

1984

Research Unit poster
8.2

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.

Research Unit

2006

Camping Paradis poster
5.0

As the owner of Camping Paradis, Tom Delormes and his team must handle the summer rush and deal with any problems that may arise, all while doing their best to keep their guests happy. He also has to keep an eye on his younger sister, Elsa...

Camping Paradis

2006

Joséphine, Guardian Angel poster
6.0

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.

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

1997

Love at First Sight poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Love at First Sight

1992

Dolmen poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Dolmen

2005

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval poster
8.8

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.

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

1994

Marc Eliot poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marc Eliot

1998

Terre indigo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terre indigo

1996

A Tale of Two Cities poster
5.7

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.

A Tale of Two Cities

1989

Far South poster
10.0

Catherine Tannerre, a young journalist, witnesses a pact of friendship between three Frenchmen in Vietnam. Each takes a different path: one is a priest helping the local people, the second aspires to become an advisor to the Emperor, and the last longs to start a family. But their destinies become intertwined, and Catherine soon suffers heartbreak and betrayal...

Far South

1997

Série noire poster
7.0

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.

Série noire

1984

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La ligne noire

2002

La Battante poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Battante

2005

Behind the camera