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