Name
Didier Sandre
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-08-17 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
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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In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to...
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Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. ...
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A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the ...
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On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of h...
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In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final exami...
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Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is ...
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Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a p...
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Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pre...
- 1998 A Tale of Autumn as Étienne
- 2014 Not My Type as Le père de Clément
- 1998 Passion interdite as Richard
- 2022 The Passengers of the Night as Jean
- 2006 Hell as Le père de Hell
- 2003 Saint-Germain ou La négociation as M. de Méylines
- 1985 Hell Train as Dalbret
- 1994 Coming to Terms with the Dead as Vincent
- 2010 Memory Lane as François
- 2012 One Night as Le procureur Lacourt
- 2013 Under the Rainbow as Guillaume Casseul
- 1993 Mensonge as Charles Melville
- 2012 Photo as Uriel
- 1993 Boulevard des hirondelles as Pascal Capeau
- 2021 François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 Électre / Oreste as Tyndare
- 2002 L'enfant éternel as Richard
- 2022 The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
- 2007 Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906 as Ricq
- 2006 Lovers of the Café Flore as Georges de Beauvoir
- 2001 Origins of Life as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 Shadow Dance as Gérard
- 2016 Les Damnés as Joachim von Essenbeck
- 2003 The Legend of Princess Parva as Parva's father (voice)
- 2018 Roméo et Juliette as Capulet
- 1992 Turbulences as Julien
- 2009 Sous un autre jour as Martin
- 2015 Les années perdues as Daniel Launey
- 2012 A.L.F. as Le psychiatre
- 2018 An Impossible Love as Philippe's Father
- 1986 The Woman of My Life as Xavier
- 2009 Montparnasse as Serge
- 2015 The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 An Officer and a Spy as General Boisdeffre
- 2018 Le Petit-Maître Corrigé as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
- 2017 Cyrano de Bergerac as de Guiche
- 2017 Les Fourberies de Scapin as Géronte
- 2020 Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique as Narrator
- 1998 La femme d'un seul homme as Richard
- 1987 Le Soulier de Satin as Don Rodrigue
- 1981 Peer Gynt as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
- 1989 Manon Roland as Robespierre
- 2025 Le Soulier de Satin as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
- 1983 Richelieu ou La journée des dupes as Cardinal de Richelieu
- 2026 Le Cid as Don Diègue
- 1996 L'allée du Roi (Version courte) as Louis XIV
- 2011 À la recherche du temps perdu ( 2 episodes ) as Le Baron de Charlus
- 1996 L'Allée du roi ( 2 episodes ) as Louis XIV
- 2023 Icon of French Cinema ( 1 episode ) as Frédéric
- 1989 Les Grandes Familles ( 4 episodes ) as Gabriel De Voos
