
Xavier Saint-Macary
Acting
Biography
Après des études au cours Simon, il devient célèbre en 1973 pour son rôle de l'amant de Jean-Pierre Aumont dans La Nuit américaine de François Truffaut. La même année, il joue le comte de Guiche aux côtes de Claude Jade (Louise de La Vallière) dans Le Château perdu. En 1979, il est Martin dans Martin et Léa d'Alain Cavalier. En 1981, il interprète Ronald dans Les hommes préfèrent les grosses de Jean-Marie Poiré. Il retrouve François Truffaut en 1983 pour Vivement dimanche ! dans le rôle de Bertrand Fabre, l'ex-époux de Fanny Ardant. Le réalisateur Patrice Leconte le fait tourner aux côtés de Michel Blanc et Anémonedans Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982). Il est également le mari de Danièle Évenou dans la série télévisée Marie-Pervenche (1984-1986). Sa dernière apparition a lieu en 1988 dans Quelques jours avec moi de Claude Sautet. Il meurt d'une crise cardiaque le 13 mars 1988 à Paris, peu avant ses 40 ans.
Known For

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
Animal

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
The Skirt Chaser

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Day for Night

A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Loulou

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Confidentially Yours

Marie Lorieux, a contract worker at the Paris Police Prefecture, is tired of distributing tickets. While walking the streets of the capital, she finds herself mingled with intrigues all wacky and incredible as each other and decides to act alone in its investigations to the chagrin of his head of department who does not know how to do for the reason and her husband, Hervé, worried constantly.
Marie Pervenche

After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.
A Few Days with Me

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.
Tell Her That I Love Her

When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want to ride south.
Fill 'er Up with Super

Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
Outward Signs of Wealth

Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
Singles

A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
Martin and Lea

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
Detective

Alexa, Fernand, and Louis form a tender yet unconventional trio in a quiet suburban home. Fleeing failed marriages and societal expectations, they build a life rooted in love and mutual support. But their unorthodox arrangement stirs suspicion, especially from a curious police inspector whose own life is about to change in unexpected ways.
Why Not!

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Short Memory

In 1662, ten years after the Fronde, King Louis XIV, then aged 24, was still feeling the insult. When the name of Baron de Fargues came to his ears, the king unleashed a blind vengeance against this amnestied former rebel. But Louise de La Vallière, Louis XIV's mistress, could jeopardize the plan.
Le Château perdu

The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.
Le Débutant

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
L'Apprentissage de la ville

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.