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Didier Sandre
Paris, France
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 202…
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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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2026
Le Cid
Movie Don Diègue
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2025
Le Soulier de Satin
Movie Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
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2023
Icon of French Cinema
TV show Frédéric
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2022
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Movie Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
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2022
The Passengers of the Night
Movie Jean
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2021
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Movie Narrator
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2019
An Officer and a Spy
Movie General Boisdeffre
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2019
Électre / Oreste
Movie Tyndare
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2018
Roméo et Juliette
Movie Capulet
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2018
An Impossible Love
Movie Philippe's Father
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2018
Le Petit-Maître Corrigé
Movie Le Comte, père d'Hortense
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2017
Les Fourberies de Scapin
Movie Géronte
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2017
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie de Guiche
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2016
Les Damnés
Movie Joachim von Essenbeck
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2015
Les années perdues
Movie Daniel Launey
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2015
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2014
Not My Type
Movie Le père de Clément
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2013
Under the Rainbow
Movie Guillaume Casseul
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2012
A.L.F.
Movie Le psychiatre
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2012
Photo
Movie Uriel
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2012
One Night
Movie Le procureur Lacourt
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2011
À la recherche du temps perdu
TV show Le Baron de Charlus
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2010
Memory Lane
Movie François
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2009
Sous un autre jour
Movie Martin
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2009
Montparnasse
Movie Serge
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2006
Hell
Movie Le père de Hell
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2006
Lovers of the Café Flore
Movie Georges de Beauvoir
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2003
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Movie M. de Méylines
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2003
The Legend of Princess Parva
Movie Parva's father (voice)
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2002
L'enfant éternel
Movie Richard
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2001
Origins of Life
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1998
Passion interdite
Movie Richard
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1998
An Autumn Tale
Movie Étienne
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1998
La femme d'un seul homme
Movie Richard
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1996
L'Allée du roi
TV show Louis XIV
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1996
L'allée du Roi (Version courte)
Movie Louis XIV
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1994
Coming to Terms with the Dead
Movie Vincent
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1993
Mensonge
Movie Charles Melville
