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
An Autumn Tale (1998)
as Étienne
Le Cid (2026)
as Don Diègue
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé (2018)
as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes (1983)
as Cardinal de Richelieu
Hell Train (1985)
as Dalbret
Under the Rainbow (2013)
as Guillaume Casseul
An Impossible Love (2018)
as Philippe's Father
L'allée du Roi (Version courte) (1996)
as Louis XIV
Origins of Life (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Mensonge (1993)
as Charles Melville
Peer Gynt (1981)
as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)
as M. de Méylines
The Woman of My Life (1986)
as Xavier
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022)
as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
Not My Type (2014)
as Le père de Clément
Turbulences (1992)
as Julien
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique (2020)
as Narrator
L'enfant éternel (2002)
as Richard
The Legend of Princess Parva (2003)
as Parva's father (voice)
Sous un autre jour (2009)
as Martin
Photo (2012)
as Uriel
One Night (2012)
as Le procureur Lacourt
Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
as Georges de Beauvoir
The Left Eye (2026)
as Rodolphe Lucien
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Hell (2006)
as Hell's Father
Shadow Dance (1983)
as Gérard
Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)
as Vincent
Les Fourberies de Scapin (2017)
as Géronte
Le Soulier de Satin (2025)
as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
Manon Roland (1989)
as Robespierre
Memory Lane (2010)
as François
La femme d'un seul homme (1998)
as Richard
Les années perdues (2015)
as Daniel Launey
Passion interdite (1998)
as Richard
Le Soulier de Satin (1987)
as Don Rodrigue
Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906 (2007)
as Ricq
Roméo et Juliette (2018)
as Capulet
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Les Damnés (2016)
as Joachim von Essenbeck
Électre / Oreste (2019)
as Tyndare
Montparnasse (2009)
as Serge
A.L.F. (2012)
as Le psychiatre
Cyrano de Bergerac (2017)
as de Guiche
Boulevard des hirondelles (1993)
as Pascal Capeau