Didier Sandre
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 17, 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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
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Filmography
Le Cid
Movie · as Don Diègue
The Left Eye
Movie · as Rodolphe Lucien
Le Soulier de Satin
Movie · as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
Icon of French Cinema
TV · as Frédéric · 1 ep
The Passengers of the Night
Movie · as Jean
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Movie · as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Movie · as Narrator
Électre / Oreste
Movie · as Tyndare
An Officer and a Spy
Movie · as General Boisdeffre
Roméo et Juliette
Movie · as Capulet
An Impossible Love
Movie · as Philippe's Father
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé
Movie · as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie · as de Guiche
Les Fourberies de Scapin
Movie · as Géronte
Les Damnés
Movie · as Joachim von Essenbeck
Les années perdues
Movie · as Daniel Launey
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Not My Type
Movie · as Le père de Clément
Under the Rainbow
Movie · as Guillaume Casseul
One Night
Movie · as Le procureur Lacourt
Photo
Movie · as Uriel
A.L.F.
Movie · as Le psychiatre
À la recherche du temps perdu
TV · as Le Baron de Charlus · 2 eps
Memory Lane
Movie · as François
Sous un autre jour
Movie · as Martin
Montparnasse
Movie · as Serge
Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906
Movie · as Ricq
Hell
Movie · as Hell's Father
Lovers of the Café Flore
Movie · as Georges de Beauvoir
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Movie · as M. de Méylines
The Legend of Princess Parva
Movie · as Parva's father (voice)
L'enfant éternel
Movie · as Richard
Origins of Life
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
An Autumn Tale
Movie · as Étienne
Passion interdite
Movie · as Richard
La femme d'un seul homme
Movie · as Richard
L'allée du Roi (Version courte)
Movie · as Louis XIV
L'Allée du roi
TV · as Louis XIV · 2 eps
Coming to Terms with the Dead
Movie · as Vincent
Mensonge
Movie · as Charles Melville
Boulevard des hirondelles
Movie · as Pascal Capeau
Turbulences
Movie · as Julien
Manon Roland
Movie · as Robespierre
Les Grandes Familles
TV · as Gabriel De Voos · 4 eps
Le Soulier de Satin
Movie · as Don Rodrigue
The Woman of My Life
Movie · as Xavier
Hell Train
Movie · as Dalbret
Shadow Dance
Movie · as Gérard
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
Movie · as Cardinal de Richelieu
Le fou du désert
TV · as Vella · 4 eps
Peer Gynt
Movie · as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre