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