Didier Sandre
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.
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Filme (47)
The Left Eye
2026 · Rodolphe Lucien
Le Cid
2026 · Don Diègue
Le Soulier de Satin
2025 · Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
2022 · Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
Passagiere der Nacht
2022 · Jean
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
2020 · Narrator
Intrige
2019 · General Boisdeffre
Électre / Oreste
2019 · Tyndare
Roméo et Juliette
2018 · Capulet
An Impossible Love
2018 · Philippe's Father
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé
2018 · Le Comte, père d'Hortense
Les Fourberies de Scapin
2017 · Géronte
Cyrano de Bergerac
2017 · de Guiche
Les Damnés
2016 · Joachim von Essenbeck
Mein Auge ruht auf dir
2015 · Daniel Launey
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Not My Type
2014 · Le père de Clément
Unter dem Regenbogen
2013 · Guillaume Casseul
A.L.F.
2012 · Le psychiatre
Photo
2012 · Uriel
One Night
2012 · Le procureur Lacourt
Memory Lane
2010 · François
In einem anderen Licht
2009 · Martin
Montparnasse
2009 · Serge
Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906
2007 · Ricq
Hell
2006 · Hell's Father
Der Liebespakt: Simone de Beauvoir und Sartre
2006 · Georges de Beauvoir
Verrat im Namen der Königin
2003 · M. de Méylines
The Legend of Princess Parva
2003 · Parva's father (voice)
L'enfant éternel
2002 · Richard
Origins of Life
2001 · Narrator (voice)
Passion interdite
1998 · Richard
An Autumn Tale
1998 · Étienne
La femme d'un seul homme
1998 · Richard
L'allée du Roi (Version courte)
1996 · Louis XIV
Coming to Terms with the Dead
1994 · Vincent
Mensonge
1993 · Charles Melville
Boulevard des hirondelles
1993 · Pascal Capeau
Turbulences
1992 · Julien
Manon Roland
1989 · Robespierre
Le Soulier de Satin
1987 · Don Rodrigue
The Woman of My Life
1986 · Xavier
Hell Train
1985 · Dalbret
Shadow Dance
1983 · Gérard
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
1983 · Cardinal de Richelieu
Peer Gynt
1981 · Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
