David Suchet

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Known For

Acting

Born

1946-05-02

Place of Birth

London, England, UK
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David Suchet

Biography

David Suchet, OBE, CBE (born 2 May 1946), is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognized for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama “The Way We Live Now”, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination. He is known for his role as Agatha Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running British TV dramatic series “Poirot”. Suchet's older brother, John Suchet, is a British television presenter and newsreader.

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Acting History

2025
The Au Pair as George
2025
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet as Self - Presenter
2024
Poirot and More: A Retrospective as Himself
2023
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir as Self
2023
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story as Self
2019
His Dark Materials as Kaisa (voice)
2018
Press as George Emmerson
2018
More Than Words as Self
2017
Concorde as Self - Narrator
2017
American Assassin as Director Stansfield
2017
Decline and Fall as Dr Fagan
2017
Urban Myths as Salvador Dali
2016
Peter Pan Goes Wrong as Self (Narrator)
2016
This Changed Everything as Narrator
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Oberon
2015
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage as Lady Bracknell
2015
Capitaine Marleau as Herbert White
2015
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter as Self - Presenter
2014
Effie Gray as Mr. Ruskin
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night as James Tyrone
2013
Being Poirot as Narrator
2013
The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
2013
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2012
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul as Self - Host
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Hollow Crown as Duke of York
2012
David Suchet: People I Have Shot as Self - Presenter
2011
Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers
2011
Hidden as Sir Nigel Fountain
2011
Perspectives
2011
The Story of Jesus as Narrator
2011
The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
2011
All My Sons as Joe Keller
2010
Agatha Christie's Poirot：Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
2010
David Suchet on the Orient Express as Himself - Presenter
2010
Going Postal as Reacher Gilt
2009
Diverted as Samuel Stearn
2009
Act of God as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
2008
Q&A as Self - Panellist
2008
The Bank Job as Lew Vogel
2007
Flood as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
2007
Maxwell as Robert Maxwell
2007
Inundación
2006
Dracula as Abraham Van Helsing
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles as Narrator (voice)
2006
Flushed Away as Rita's Dad (voice)
2006
The One Show as Self
2005
Extinct
2005
Doctor Who as The Landlord
2004
A Bear Named Winnie as General Hallholland
2004
Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2003
Henry VIII as Thomas Wolsey
2003
Foolproof as Leo Gillette
2003
The In-Laws as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
2002
Live from Baghdad as Naji Al-Hadithi
2002
The Stanford Prison Experiment as Narrator (voice)
2002
NCS: Manhunt as DI John Borne
2001
Richard & Judy as Self
2001
The Way We Live Now as Augustus Melmotte
2001
Victoria & Albert as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
2001
Murder in Mind as Edward Palmer
2000
Sabotage!! as Napoleón
2000
RKO 281 as Louis B. Mayer
1999
Wing Commander as Capt. Jason Sansky
1998
A Perfect Murder as Mohamed Karaman
1998
Seesaw as Morris Price
1997
Solomon as Joab
1997
Solomon as Joab
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix (voice)
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix (voice)
1997
Sunday as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
1996
Deadly Voyage as Vlachos
1996
Moses as Aaron
1996
Moïse as Aaron
1996
Executive Decision as Nagi Hassan
1995
Cruel Train as Ruben Roberts
1995
Moses as Aaron
1993
Der Fall Lucona as Rudi Waltz
1992
The Secret Agent as Alfred Verloc
1991
The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actor
1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Narrator (voice)
1990
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait as Self
1990
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death as Shakespeare
1990
Separation as Joe
1989
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
When the Whales Came as Will
1989
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Hercule Poirot
1988
To Kill a Priest as Bishop
1988
A World Apart as Muller
1988
The Play on One as Joe
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Leopold Bloom
1988
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Leopold Bloom
1987
The Dame Edna Experience as Self
1987
Cause Célèbre as T.J. O'Connor
1987
Harry and the Hendersons as Jacques Lafleur
1987
The Last Innocent Man as Jonathan Gault
1986
Murrow as William Shirer
1986
Iron Eagle as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story as Dino Grandi
1985
Thirteen at Dinner as Insp. Japp
1985
Theatre Night
1985
A Song for Europe as Steve Dyer
1985
Blott on the Landscape
1985
Blott on the Landscape as Blott
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman as Alex
1984
Oxbridge Blues as Colin
1984
The Little Drummer Girl as Mesterbein
1984
Freud as Sigmund Freud
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Buller
1984
Master of the Game as André d'Usseau
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies as Inspector Tsientsin
1983
Being Normal as Bill
1983
Red Monarch as Beria
1983
Trenchcoat as Inspector Stagnos
1982
The Missionary as Corbett
1982
Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Clopin Trouillefou
1981
The Cause as Reger
1980
A Tale of Two Cities as John Barsad
1980
Oppenheimer as Edward Teller
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Yves Drouard
1978
An Audience with... as Self
1977
The Professionals as Krivas
1972
The Protectors as Detective
1972
The Protectors as Leo
1970
Play for Today as Reger
1965
Public Eye as Martin Kulman
1949
The BAFTA Awards as Self