Didier Sandre
Known for Acting · 50 credits
- Born
- 1946-08-17 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Didier Maffre
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
TV Shows (4)
Movies (46)
An Officer and a Spy
2019
as General Boisdeffre
Manon Roland
1989
as Robespierre
An Impossible Love
2018
as Philippe's Father
A Tale of Autumn
1998
as Étienne
Électre / Oreste
2019
as Tyndare
Origins of Life
2001
as Narrator (voice)
The Passengers of the Night
2022
as Jean
Hell
2006
as Le père de Hell
The Woman of My Life
1986
as Xavier
Memory Lane
2010
as François
One Night
2012
as Le procureur Lacourt
Hell Train
1985
as Dalbret
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
2022
as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
Lovers of the Café Flore
2006
as Georges de Beauvoir
Not My Type
2014
as Le père de Clément
Photo
2012
as Uriel
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé
2018
as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
Under the Rainbow
2013
as Guillaume Casseul
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as M. de Méylines
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Passion interdite
1998
as Richard
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Legend of Princess Parva
2003
as Parva's father (voice)
Mensonge
1993
as Charles Melville
Le Cid
2026
as Don Diègue, père de don Rodrigue
Shadow Dance
1983
as Gérard
Boulevard des hirondelles
1993
as Pascal Capeau
La femme d'un seul homme
1998
as Richard
Coming to Terms with the Dead
1994
as Vincent
Montparnasse
2009
as Serge
Cyrano de Bergerac
2017
as de Guiche
Sous un autre jour
2009
as Martin
L'enfant éternel
2002
as Richard
Turbulences
1992
as Julien
Peer Gynt
1981
as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
Le Soulier de Satin
2025
as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
Les Damnés
2016
as Joachim von Essenbeck
L'allée du Roi (Version courte)
1996
as Louis XIV
Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906
2007
as Ricq
Les années perdues
2015
as Daniel Launey
Les Fourberies de Scapin
2017
as Géronte
Roméo et Juliette
2018
as Capulet
Le Soulier de Satin
1987
as Don Rodrigue
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
2020
as Narrator
A.L.F.
2012
as Le psychiatre
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
1983
as Cardinal de Richelieu
About 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 w… With 50 credits spanning from 1981 to 2026, Didier Sandre has appeared in 46 films and 4 TV shows.
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Most Popular Didier Sandre Movies
- An Officer and a Spy (2019) — as General Boisdeffre
- Manon Roland (1989) — as Robespierre
- An Impossible Love (2018) — as Philippe's Father
- A Tale of Autumn (1998) — as Étienne
- Électre / Oreste (2019) — as Tyndare
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