---
name: "Frédéric van den Driessche"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frederic-van-den-driessche"
fi1m_id: "frederic-van-den-driessche"
imdb_id: "nm0886125"
tmdb_id: 37605
wikidata_id: "Q2370901"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 December 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:10:45.828075+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Frédéric van den Driessche

## Identity

Frédéric van den Driessche

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frederic-van-den-driessche
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frederic-van-den-driessche
- **IMDb ID:** nm0886125
- **TMDB ID:** 37605
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2370901
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2370901, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886125/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37605

Actor. Born 8 December 1956 in Tourcoing, Nord, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 December 1956, Tourcoing, Nord, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2370901, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886125/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37605

## Biography

Frédéric van den Driessche is a French actor born on 8 December 1956 in Tourcoing. He trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in Paris, graduating in 1981.

He played Charles in Éric Rohmer’s *A Tale of Winter* (1992) and Paul Négrel in *Germinal* (1993). On television he has taken the title role in the series *Louis Page* (1998–2009) and portrayed Dr Alain Alphand in *Un si grand soleil* since 2018. He is also a regular voice actor in French dubbing, notably for Liam Neeson.

Other screen credits include *Sky Fighters* (2005), *The Exterminating Angels* (2006) and *Saturn Bowling* (2022).

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, allocine.fr, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Tale of Winter* (1992), Fi1m 78, as Charles — [page](https://film.one/film/a-tale-of-winter.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Clermont en état d'alerte* (2025), as Agent (voix)
- *Jibé et Lucien en coulisses* (2024), series, as Liam Neeson (voix)
- *Saturn Bowling* (2022), as Jean-Paul
- *Les Mystères de l'école de gendarmerie* (2021), as Bernard Zorki
- *Crossroads* (2021), series, as Paul Renaud
- *Murder In Rochefort* (2019), as Bernard
- *Chronicles of the Sun* (2018), series, as Dr. Alain Alphand, Alain Alphand
- *Thirst for Life* (2017), as Docteur Padowski
- *Stavisky, l'escroc du siècle* (2016), as Albert Prince
- *Le Dernier Gaulois* (2015), as Apator (voice)
- *Cassandre* (2015), series, as François de Wolf
- *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Paul Thibaut
- *Me Against The World* (2015), as Salanche
- *The Tramp of the Somme* (2015), as Serge Chopart
- *Ingrid & Lola: Road to Manta Corridor* (2014), as Commandant Brière
- *Coup de sangria* (2013), as Christian
- *La Planète des cons* (2013), as Jean-Patrick Hénard, l'élite de la nation
- *L'été des Lip* (2012), as Claude Neuschwander
- *La Vie en miettes* (2011), as le docteur Mallory
- *Le Temps du silence* (2011), as Aragon
- *Vidocq: Le Masque et la Plume* (2010), as Georges Ségur
- *Un petit mensonge* (2009), as Eric Waltz
- *ASD : Action Spéciale Douanes* (2009), series, as Serge Kerienko
- *Artemisia Sanchez* (2008), series, as Principe Spinelli
- *Kingdom of Felony* (2008), as Comte de Monsoreau
- *La Dame de Monsoreau* (2008), series, as Comte de Monsoreau
- *The Countess of Castiglione* (2006), series, as Imperatore Napoleone III
- *Des fleurs pour Algernon* (2006), as Professeur Jean-Pierre Nemur
- *The Exterminating Angels* (2006), as François
- *Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu* (2006), as Le Jésuite
- *Sky Fighters* (2005), as Général Hardouin
- *Vive la vie* (2005), as J.P.
- *Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant* (2005), as Calvignac
- *Sissi, the Rebellious Empress* (2004), as Frantz
- *The Masked Avenger: Lagardere* (2003), as Nevers
- *Seven Years of Marriage* (2003), as Jean de la Ferrière
- *Une femme amoureuse* (2001), as Vincent
- *Ladies of the Law* (2000), series, as Bruno Reignier
- *Chère Marianne* (1999), series, as le Maire
- *Louis Page* (1998), series, as Père Louis Page
- *Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission* (1996), as Mermoz
- *Les Cordier, juge et flic* (1994), series, as Clément
- *Cache Cash* (1994), as Jérôme Messignac, père d'Antoine
- *Germinal* (1993), as Paul Négrel
- *Dose mortelle* (1993), as Serge
- *Le Bal des casse-pieds* (1992), as Slobodan, l'homme de Sofia
- *A Tale of Winter* (1992), as Charles — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-tale-of-winter.md)
- *Maigret* (1991), series, as Martineau
- *The Austrian* (1990), as Chauveau-Lagarde
- *La Belle Anglaise* (1988), series, as Jean-Louis
- *Vie et mort d'Untel* (1980), as Le chauffeur du taxi

## Gallery

- ![Tour du Finistère 2025 : Frédéric van den Driessche, parrain de cette édition](https://film.one/media/person/3928756/gallery-53dba5349c5e.jpg) Tour du Finistère 2025 : Frédéric van den Driessche, parrain de cette édition — MFonzatti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Finist%C3%A8re2025-01_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_van_den_Driessche.jpg/1280px-Finist%C3%A8re2025-01_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_van_den_Driessche.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frédéric van den Driessche](https://film.one/media/person/3928756/gallery-b563b8c2cdd8.jpg) Frédéric van den Driessche — Louis Brosse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_van_den_Driessche.jpg/1280px-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_van_den_Driessche.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frédéric van den Driessche](https://film.one/media/person/3928756/gallery-3a9b2f025c62.jpg) Frédéric van den Driessche — Image via TMDB

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