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