Jan Decleir

Q: Has Jan Decleir won any awards?

Yes, Jan Decleir has received several awards throughout his career, including the Best Actor award at the Belgian Film Festival for his role in 'The Memory of a Killer.'

Q: When did Jan Decleir start his acting career?

Jan Decleir started his acting career in the 1970s, initially performing in theater before moving to film and television, where he found significant success.

Q: What is Jan Decleir's acting style?

Jan Decleir is known for his immersive acting style, characterized by emotional depth and a strong connection to his characters, often portraying complex and nuanced roles.

Q: What is Jan Decleir's estimated net worth?

Jan Decleir's estimated net worth is approximately $5 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television over several decades.

Q: What are some of Jan Decleir's earliest works?

Some of Jan Decleir's earliest works include stage performances and television roles in the 1970s, which laid the foundation for his later success in film.

Q: Is Jan Decleir involved in any charitable activities?

Jan Decleir is known to support various charitable initiatives, particularly those focused on children and education, reflecting his commitment to social causes.

Q: What impact has Jan Decleir had on Belgian cinema?

Jan Decleir has had a profound impact on Belgian cinema, contributing to its international recognition through his diverse roles and dedication to the craft of acting.

Known for

The Claus Family (2020)

IMDb 5.6 / 10

2020 / Comedy, Family / 97mins

When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas.

Name

Jan Decleir

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

4 February 1946, Zele, Belgium

Spouses

Marie-Thérèse Decleir (1980–present)

Children

3 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Father: Jan Decleir Sr., Mother: names not publicly known

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie The Baronesses When 65-year-old Fatima discovers that her husband has been living a double life in Morocco for the past ten years,...	Lucien	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2023	Movie WILL Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War...	The Professor	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	Movie The Claus Family 3 When the delivery of presents goes wrong and Grandpa Noël gets in trouble, siblings Jules and Noor must work together...	Noël Claus	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2021	Movie The Claus Family 2 Jules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa...	Noël Claus	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2020	Movie The Claus Family When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope...	Noël Claus	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	Movie The Barefoot Emperor How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.	Willy Brandt	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2019	Movie Een verkeerde toekomst A short film about our climate, our conscience and our future.	Jules	Not rated
2018	Movie This Magnificent Cake! In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European...	The King (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint	Sinterklaas	Not rated
2018	Movie Sinterklaas en de Wakkere Nachten Who's keeping the citizens of a Belgian provincial town out of their sleep? Is it Santa Clause?	Sinterklaas	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Don't Shoot In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an...	Albert	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint	Sinterklaas	Not rated
2017	TV Tytgat Chocolat Jasper Vloemans works in a small chocolate factory that employs mentally challenged workers to package its products. He falls in...	Achille Verherstraeten	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2017	Movie The Blind Spot Dode Hoek (Blind Spot) is the story of Jan Verbeeck, the uncompromising commissioner of the Antwerp drug squad. Known as...	Partijvoorzitter	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2016	TV The Eleventh of the Eleventh A show about carnaval in Knorrendonk	Hubert Geunings	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2015	Movie Wat Mannen Willen We follow the lives of six men searching for true love or just a little happiness at a time when...	Pastoor	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2015	Movie Ay Ramon! Max and Tikkelotje own an unsuccessful theatre company. When Tikkelotje notices Ramon - the faithful companion to Saint Nicholas -...	Saint Nicholas	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Me and Kaminski Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that...	Holm	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie Café Derby 1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears...	Bisschop	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	Movie The Surprise An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman...	Cornald Muller	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	TV New Texas Following the sudden death of the family patriarch, the four argumentative Vrancken brothers are forced to live under the same...	Ludo Vrancken (oud)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie 14-18 Spektakel-Musical July 28, 1914. The Great War breaks out.	Verteller	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	Movie Szvo Belgium short film	Szvo	Not rated
2014	Movie Flying Home Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a...	Jos Pauwels	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie Finn Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays...	Luuk	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie Nova Zembla Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade...	Petrus Plancius	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2011	Movie De Sint Danst de Tango Sint and his mischievous assistant Zwarte Piet enjoy collecting children's letters at night, but lose a whole bag.	Sinterklaas	Not rated
2011	Movie The Spring of César The poem well integrated in the film, was interpreted by writer/actor/painter Pjeroo Roobjee. The project is melting pot of poetry,...	Buyer	Not rated
2010	Movie Smoorverliefd A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a...	Bob Seynens	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie Omokage	Unknown character	Not rated
2010	Movie Marieke, Marieke Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She...	Jacoby	TMDB 2.2 / 10
2009	Movie Ob ihr wollt oder nicht The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of...	Henning Brühl	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2009	TV Sinteressante dingen In Sinteressante dingen, Professor Herman Van den Uytleg, professor of the interesting and speculative sciences, comments on the adventures of...	Sinterklaas	Not rated
2009	Movie Les Barons The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of...	Julien	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2009	Movie Limo Four girls discover a primitive hidden village where everybody falls asleep and all children are gone.	Unknown character	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2009	Movie Sister Smile A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with...	Lucien Deckers	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie Loft Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body...	Ludwig Tyberghein	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2008	TV Holland's past A series of eight episodes documenting 250.000 years of history. Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along sights and locations that historically...	Voice	Not rated
2007	TV Koning van de Wereld The story of Stan Vandewalle, who's on his way to becoming a sports hero. On his way to the top...	Max	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2007	Movie Where Is Winky's Horse? In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the...	Oom Siem/Sinterklaas	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie Paparazzo	Jeff Castelli	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2007	Movie A Perfect Match On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a...	Leopold	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Wolfsbergen Konraad, 83, has written a letter to his relatives saying he wants to die. Maria, Konraad's daughter and only child,...	Ernst	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	Movie Firmin After almost thirty years, Germaine, Firmin's great love, suddenly returns to her hometown. Firmin is overjoyed and determined to win...	Freddy White	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2007	Movie Blind Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of...	Dokter Victor Verbeecke	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2007	TV De Kavijaks	De Generaal	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2006	Movie King of the World Cinema version of the 5 part TV series. During World War II, Stan Vandewalle saves boxing trainer Max from the...	Max	Not rated
2006	Movie Crusade in Jeans Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to...	Count of Rottweil	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2006	Movie De Zondvloed This is a portrait of an old man who is kept locked up in the attic by his daughter with...	man	Not rated
2005	Movie Someone Else's Happiness A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in...	Johnny De Flow	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2005	Movie Winky's Horse There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it...	Oom Siem / Sinterklaas	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2005	Movie Long Weekend Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos...	Jos	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2005	Movie Off Screen March 11th, 2002. John R. takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John R....	John Voerman	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	TV De zaak Alzheimer	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Kiss Sarah, a beautiful and gifted 15-year-old from a wealthy but chaotic family, holds on to one dream: to run away...	Marcel Lenaerts	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie The Edelweiss Pirates Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead....	Ferdinand Kütter	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2003	Movie Father's Affair Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this...	Huib Minderhout	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie SuperTex Max, the confident firstborn of a wealthy Dutch-Jewish family, enjoys security, love, and his father Simon’s pride as head of...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie The Missing Half Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other...	Le gynécologue	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	Movie The Memory of a Killer Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with...	Angelo Ledda	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	Movie Flight of the Imagination An explicator of silent movies falls in love with the star of film he's accompanying.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Rosenstrasse When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger...	Nathan Goldberg	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	Movie Brush with Fate A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.	Old Laurens	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Hop All young Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy watching a soccer game together. When...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2002	TV Meiden van de Wit After the CEO of a milkfactory dies a violent death, his three daughters Roos, Floor and Frédérique take over the...	Klaas de Wit	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2002	Movie Villa Des Roses In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2001	TV 9 Days of the Vulture A story of friendship, love, crime and death. Against the backdrop of a large criminal investigation the lives of various...	Victor Dielemans	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2001	TV Stille Waters Stan Moereels is found dead. Was it suicide, or was he killed? Stan's foster-child Jana Meyer decides to investigate. Alexander...	Stan Moereels	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2001	TV Stille Waters Stan Moereels is found dead. Was it suicide, or was he killed? Stan's foster-child Jana Meyer decides to investigate. Alexander...	Stan Moreels	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2001	Movie De Verlossing A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son...	Oscar	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie Mariken A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story...	Archibald	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Lijmen/Het been Story of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine.	rechter Teugels	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	TV De grote boze wolf show	Bob de Beer	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie the Detour The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It...	Vader van Joanna	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Little Crumb The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921...	Vader Keyzer	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1999	Movie Running Free The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his...	Boss Man	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	Movie Shades In this film within a film, a Belgian serial killer escapes prison and finds that a filmmaker is making a...	Freddy Lebecq	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Taming the Floods Taming the Floods fulfills the dream of the landscape architect Jan Dijkstra: he can design an area in Poland that...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Molokai: The Story of Father Damien The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai,...	Bishop Köckerman	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie S. It's about a girl, S., who is dangling between Brussels and New York, boys and girls, love and hate, life...	Moeders vriend	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1997	TV Diamant In this filmed version of Flemish author Jef Gheeraerts' novel, Robert 'Robbe' Parain, an arrogant Antwerp police detective who operates...	Karel Van Grieken	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1997	Movie Character In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends...	Dreverhaven	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie La Vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The...	Arno's friend	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1995	TV Kulderzipken Kulderzipken is a Flemish television series that premiered in 1995. Two seasons of ten episodes each have been made since...	Koning Jozef	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1995	Movie Antonia's Line After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has...	Sebastian	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1994	TV Buiten De Zone Buiten De Zone (translated as "Out of the Zone") is a Flemish youth series (1994-1996) about five volunteers at the...	Uitvinder van het woordenboek	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	TV Moeder, waarom leven wij? Netje grows up in a poor working-class family in Antwerp. She is the youngest of four children and the apple...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	Movie Anchoress A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell...	Mason	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1993	Movie Beck – De gesloten kamer A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide?...	Beck	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1992	TV Dag Sinterklaas Dag Sinterklaas was a Flemish television program with Bart Peeters who goes every day visit St. Nicholas and Zwarte Piet...	Sinterklaas	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1992	Movie Priest Daens In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working...	Adolf Daens	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1990	Movie Dilemma She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when...	Leon Bekkers	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1990	Movie Koko Flanel Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees,...	Azère Smellekens	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Sacrament The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat...	Albert	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie Le grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered...	Jacob	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie The van Paemel Family The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot...	Masco	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1985	Movie The Lion of Flanders A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a...	Jan Breydel	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	Movie Permeke When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum...	Stem van Permeke (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1984	Movie Zware jongens Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as possible. Leo, on the...	Gevangene 1	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1984	Movie John the Fearless He's the "Rocky" of the 15th century-defender of the poor, enemy of evil, champion of justice. He's fearless and the...	John the Fearless / Jan zonder Vrees (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie All Night Long Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	Movie The Life We Dreamt Of Antwerp. Someone is making a feature film. After shooting the scenes on location, the filmmaker wanders to the railway station....	Kommentaar	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Tijd om gelukkig te zijn A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his...	De man	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie Things Past Based on three stories by R.J. Peskens.	Kees	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	Movie Two Queens and One Consort At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in...	Vader	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1981	Movie Le Filet Américain The documentary's legacy lies in its unapologetic fusion of agitprop and satire, a signature style of De Hert’s Fugitive Cinema...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1979	Movie De Proefkonijnen The men of Chemics International lead a quiet life. However, this is cruelly disrupted by an industrial accident in which...	Jef	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1978	Movie Mortal Sin Psychodrama. Black and white images of a mining area under the influence of a highly orthodox Catholicism in the 1930s...	Marcels vader	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1978	Movie A Page of Love François, a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very...	Un ouvrier	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1977	Movie Burned Bridges In the Belgian hamlet of Verbrande Brug, former lovers Monique and Louis reconnect at a carnival, stirring up drama with...	Charel	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1976	TV Sil de strandjutter The story takes place on Terschelling, which is closed off from the rest of the Netherlands at the end of...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1975	Movie Pallieter In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy...	Bohumil	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1974	Movie Verloren maandag Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother...	Katangees	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1974	Movie The Conscript In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort...	Jan Braems	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1973	Movie Chronicle of a Passion After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the...	Renier Joskin de Lamarache	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1971	Movie Mira The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.	Lander	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1971	TV Keromar	Odo	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1968	Movie De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr. The wife of a local dictator gets a miscarriage during a failed assault by rebels. The dictators' brother suggesst to...	Hendrik Vandersteen	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1968	TV Wij Heren Van Zichem	Stegger	TMDB 7.5 / 10
TBA	TV 10 Broeders	Unknown character	Not rated

The Baronesses

2025 / TMDB 5.8

WILL

2023 / TMDB 6.6

The Claus Family 3

2022 / TMDB 5.7

The Claus Family 2

2021 / TMDB 6.5

The Claus Family

2020 / TMDB 6.0

The Barefoot Emperor

2020 / TMDB 5.5

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