Season 322 Episode 10319
Meticulous Moments with Juanita Kapp: Interview with Alan Delabie
Alan Delabie was born in France in the early 70s and has always been passionate about cinema since his childhood. He discovered Bruce Lee's martial arts films through his older brother and then explored the horror genre. However, it was towards martial arts that he took his first steps, practicing Shotokan Karate, Full Contact and Kickboxing. Alan became a black belt and even won the European Nunchaku Championship. Subsequently, he began to give demonstrations on stage on French and Belgian television, notably on France 2 and France 3. He was invited on the set of Jean-Luc Delarue's show
""It's Time,"" where he gave a demonstration with actor José Garcia. Alan was also a guest on the show ""Carlos et les autres"" on RTBF, the Belgian national channel. His career then led him to castings and roles in TV movies and series like ""Rightly or Wrongly"". It was then that Alan decided to try the American adventure, managing to be part of the television show in Canada ""Master of the Arts aka Road to Hollywood"" produced by the famous
Canadian actor-producer Jalal Merhi.
Alan then began producing short films, including one with international actress Catriona
MacColl, famous for her collaborations with Italian director Lucio Fulci. He continued his
career in various web series and roles, but eventually decided to go on an adventure to Los Angeles and San Diego. He was a two-time guest on KUSI NEWS' ""Good Morning San Diego"" for his feature film ""8 Hours,"" which reopened the famed Ken Cinema, as well as ""Anatomy of an Anti-Hero: Redemption.""
Alan also gave a demonstration at the Paris Bercy Martial Arts Festival, one of the largest
international martial arts galas broadcast live on the Paris Première television channel.
A Canadian director, Chris Power, wrote the screenplay for an action film called ""The French Dragon"" and offered him the role of Officer Gallant in the feature film ""Bloodslinger"". Alan directed and portrayed Frank Denard in his ""Borrowed Time"" trilogy, sharing the stage with many great Hollywood actors such as Eric Roberts, Costas Mandylor, Louis Mandylor, Patrick Kilpatrick, Matthias Hues and Bob Wall, Bruce Lee's legendary adversary. Alan fought on screen in Borrowed Time I Abdel Qissi, Jean-Claude Vandamme's opponent in the films ""Lion Heart"" and ""The Quest"". He also starred with his brother, Michel (Mohammed) Qissi aka Tong Po from the movie Kickboxer also in his film Borrowed Time I.
His mentor, David Worth, director of ""Kickboxer"" with Jean-Claude Van Damme, guided him on his cinematic adventure, and they co-directed ""Borrowed Time 3: Falling Apart.""
Alan has won awards at several film festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Awards, the Los Angeles Actors Awards, as well as festivals in Istanbul, Tokyo, and New York. He also received an award at the renowned Action Martial Arts Magazine Gala in Atlantic City.
In 2023, he starred as a vampire in ""The Last Nosferatu,"" for which he received the Best Actor award. That same year, he played Alex Lapierre in the thriller ""Shepherd Code,""
alongside 11-time world kickboxing champion Don ""The Dragon"" Wilson and Silvio Simac
(Undisputed 2 and Transporters 3) Alan is also a guest on KLCS PPBS Los Angeles TV on the show ""EveryBody with Angela Williamson.
He was also featured in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 by appearing on the cover of several
magazines like Hollywood Weekly, Eclair magazine, Dragonz to name a few.
Alan as working also with Lee Arenberg from the Trilogy (pirates of the Caribbean) for his
new feature film.
Alan exemplifies the example of the talented and promising artist, brilliantly blending
creativity, determination, passion and discipline in each of his projects. His charismatic onscreen presence made him a rising star in cinema, but he remained humble despite his
growing fame. Multidisciplinary, Alan combines with the hand of an orchestra conductor the direction of his films from A to Z, the writing of the script, the selection of his actors, the direction of the actors on the set as well as the mastery of his acting because in the end, he is at the heart of each of his film projects
