Didier Sandre
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Didier Maffre, known professionally as Didier Sandre, is a French actor and stage director born in Paris on 17 August 1946 and appointed sociétaire of the Comédie‑Française in 2020. He made his debut in 1968 in Paul Claudel’s L’Échange and, from the 1970s onward, became a prominent figure in public theatre, collaborating with major directors such as Catherine Dasté, Bernard Sobel, Jorge Lavelli, Patrice Chéreau, Giorgio Strehler, Luc Bondy, and Antoine Vitez. Alongside this, he has appeared regularly in private‑theatre productions, including works by Claudel, Anouilh, Rampal, and Margulies. His stage career includes notable performances in Bérénice (directed by Lambert Wilson), Le Laboureur de Bohême (Christian Schiaretti), and Monsieur chasse! by Feydeau. He joined the Comédie‑Française in 2013 and became a full member in 2020. Sandre has also worked extensively in film and television, appearing in Pascale Ferran’s Petits Arrangements avec les morts, Éric Rohmer’s Autumn Tale, Abraham Segal’s Le Mystère Paul, and Mikhaël Hers’s Memory Lane. On television, he has acted in numerous dramas, including Saint‑Germain ou la Négociation, Le Sang noir, and notably portrayed Louis XIV in Nina Companeez’s L’Allée du Roi and the Baron de Charlus in her adaptation of In Search of Lost Time. A frequent narrator in concert settings, he has performed in major repertoire works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Beethoven, Honegger, Haydn, Prokofiev, Grieg, Poulenc, and others, collaborating with leading orchestras, conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Myung‑Whun Chung, and renowned soloists including Alexandre Tharaud, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, and Emmanuelle Bertrand.
Known for
Credits
An Officer and a Spy (2019)
as General Boisdeffre
The Passengers of the Night (2022)
as Jean
Le Cid (2026)
as Don Diègue
An Autumn Tale (1998)
as Étienne
An Impossible Love (2018)
as Philippe's Father
Not My Type (2014)
as Le père de Clément
Under the Rainbow (2013)
as Guillaume Casseul
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022)
as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
The Woman of My Life (1986)
as Xavier
Origins of Life (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
L'allée du Roi (Version courte) (1996)
as Louis XIV
Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)
as M. de Méylines
Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
as Georges de Beauvoir
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé (2018)
as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
Hell Train (1985)
as Dalbret
Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)
as Vincent
Mensonge (1993)
as Charles Melville
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique (2020)
as Narrator
Peer Gynt (1981)
as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
The Legend of Princess Parva (2003)
as Parva's father (voice)
L'enfant éternel (2002)
as Richard
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes (1983)
as Cardinal de Richelieu
Memory Lane (2010)
as François
One Night (2012)
as Le procureur Lacourt
Manon Roland (1989)
as Robespierre
Sous un autre jour (2009)
as Martin
Cyrano de Bergerac (2017)
as de Guiche
Les Fourberies de Scapin (2017)
as Géronte
Hell (2006)
as Le père de Hell
Shadow Dance (1983)
as Gérard
Photo (2012)
as Uriel
Électre / Oreste (2019)
as Tyndare
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Le Soulier de Satin (1987)
as Don Rodrigue
Turbulences (1992)
as Julien
Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906 (2007)
as Ricq
Le Soulier de Satin (2025)
as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
Les Damnés (2016)
as Joachim von Essenbeck
Les années perdues (2015)
as Daniel Launey
Passion interdite (1998)
as Richard
Montparnasse (2009)
as Serge
Roméo et Juliette (2018)
as Capulet
La femme d'un seul homme (1998)
as Richard
Boulevard des hirondelles (1993)
as Pascal Capeau
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
A.L.F. (2012)
as Le psychiatre