Didier Sandre
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
An Officer and a Spy
Icon of French Cinema
An Impossible Love
Les Grandes Familles
L'Allée du roi
Le Cid
À la recherche du temps perdu
A Tale of Autumn
All Movies (46)
- Le Cid2026 · as Don Diègue
- Le Soulier de Satin2025 · as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
- The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess2022 · as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
- The Passengers of the Night2022 · as Jean
- François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story2021 · as Narrator (voice)
- Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique2020 · as Narrator
- An Officer and a Spy2019 · as General Boisdeffre
- Électre / Oreste2019 · as Tyndare
- Roméo et Juliette2018 · as Capulet
- An Impossible Love2018 · as Philippe's Father
- Le Petit-Maître Corrigé2018 · as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
- Les Fourberies de Scapin2017 · as Géronte
- Cyrano de Bergerac2017 · as de Guiche
- Les Damnés2016 · as Joachim von Essenbeck
- Les années perdues2015 · as Daniel Launey
- The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne2015 · as Narrator (voice)
- Not My Type2014 · as Le père de Clément
- Under the Rainbow2013 · as Guillaume Casseul
- A.L.F.2012 · as Le psychiatre
- Photo2012 · as Uriel
- One Night2012 · as Le procureur Lacourt
- Memory Lane2010 · as François
- Sous un autre jour2009 · as Martin
- Montparnasse2009 · as Serge
- Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 19062007 · as Ricq
- Hell2006 · as Le père de Hell
- Lovers of the Café Flore2006 · as Georges de Beauvoir
- Saint-Germain ou La négociation2003 · as M. de Méylines
- The Legend of Princess Parva2003 · as Parva's father (voice)
- L'enfant éternel2002 · as Richard
- Origins of Life2001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Passion interdite1998 · as Richard
- A Tale of Autumn1998 · as Étienne
- La femme d'un seul homme1998 · as Richard
- L'allée du Roi (Version courte)1996 · as Louis XIV
- Coming to Terms with the Dead1994 · as Vincent
- Mensonge1993 · as Charles Melville
- Boulevard des hirondelles1993 · as Pascal Capeau
- Turbulences1992 · as Julien
- Manon Roland1989 · as Robespierre
- Le Soulier de Satin1987 · as Don Rodrigue
- The Woman of My Life1986 · as Xavier
- Hell Train1985 · as Dalbret
- Shadow Dance1983 · as Gérard
- Richelieu ou La journée des dupes1983 · as Cardinal de Richelieu
- Peer Gynt1981 · as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
All TV Shows (4)
- Icon of French Cinema2023 · as Frédéric
- À la recherche du temps perdu2011 · as Le Baron de Charlus
- L'Allée du roi1996 · as Louis XIV
- Les Grandes Familles1989 · as Gabriel De Voos