
David Suchet
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 2, 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography

Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
TV · as Self - Presenter · 5 eps

The Au Pair
TV · as George · 4 eps

Poirot and More: A Retrospective
Movie · as Himself

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
Movie · as Self

His Dark Materials
TV · as Kaisa (voice) · 7 eps

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Movie · as Self

Press
TV · as George Emmerson · 3 eps

More Than Words
TV · as Self · 4 eps

American Assassin
Movie · as Director Stansfield

Concorde
TV · as Self - Narrator · 2 eps

Urban Myths
TV · as Salvador Dali · 1 ep

Decline and Fall
TV · as Dr Fagan · 3 eps

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie · as Oberon

Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Movie · as Self (Narrator)

This Changed Everything
Movie · as Narrator

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
Movie · as Lady Bracknell

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
TV · as Self - Presenter · 2 eps

Capitaine Marleau
TV · as Herbert White · 1 ep

Effie Gray
Movie · as Mr. Ruskin

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Movie · as James Tyrone

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
Movie · as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

Being Poirot
Movie · as Self - Narrator

The Jesus Storybook Bible
TV · as Narrator · 44 eps
Starring Sigmund Freud
Movie

David Suchet: People I Have Shot
Movie · as Self - Presenter

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
TV · as Self - Host · 2 eps

The Hollow Crown
TV · as Duke of York · 1 ep

The Jesus Storybook Bible
Movie · as Narrator

All My Sons
Movie · as Joe Keller

Going Postal 2in1
Movie · as Reacherové pozlátko

Great Expectations
TV · as Mr. Jaggers · 3 eps

Hidden
TV · as Sir Nigel Fountain · 4 eps

Perspectives
TV · 2 eps

The Story of Jesus
TV · as Narrator · 2 eps

David Suchet on the Orient Express
Movie · as Himself - Presenter

Going Postal
TV · as Reacher Gilt · 2 eps

Diverted
Movie · as Samuel Stearn

Act of God
Movie · as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

The Bank Job
Movie · as Lew Vogel

Q&A
TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep

Flood
Movie · as DPM Campbell

Maxwell
Movie · as Robert Maxwell

Flushed Away
Movie · as Rita's Dad (voice)

Dracula
Movie · as Abraham Van Helsing

Arthur and the Invisibles
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Agatha Christie Poirot After the Funeral
Movie · as Hercule Poirot

The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Extinct
TV · 5 eps

Doctor Who
TV · as The Landlord · 1 ep

A Bear Named Winnie
Movie · as General Hallholland

The Phoenix and the Carpet
Movie · as The Phoenix (voice)

Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
Movie · as Narrator

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
TV · 2 eps

Who Do You Think You Are?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Foolproof
Movie · as Leo Gillette

The In-Laws
Movie · as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

Henry VIII
TV · as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey · 2 eps

The Stanford Prison Experiment
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Live from Baghdad
Movie · as Naji Al-Hadithi

NCS: Manhunt
TV · as DI John Borne · 6 eps

Victoria & Albert
Movie · as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Richard & Judy
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Way We Live Now
TV · as Augustus Melmotte · 4 eps

Murder in Mind
TV · as Edward Palmer · 1 ep

Sabotage!!
Movie · as Napoleón

RKO 281
Movie · as Louis B. Mayer

Wing Commander
Movie · as Capt. Jason Sansky

A Perfect Murder
Movie · as Mohamed Karaman

Seesaw
TV · as Morris Price · 3 eps

Sunday
Movie · as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Solomon
Movie · as Joab

Solomon
TV · as Joab · 2 eps

The Phoenix and the Carpet
TV · as The Phoenix (voice) · 6 eps

Executive Decision
Movie · as Nagi Hassan

Deadly Voyage
Movie · as Vlachos

Moses
TV · as Aaron · 2 eps

Cruel Train
Movie · as Ruben Roberts

Der Fall Lucona
Movie · as Rudi Waltz

The Secret Agent
Movie · as Alfred Verloc
The Secret Agent
TV · as Alfred Verloc · 3 eps

The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Movie · as Self - Actor

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Separation
Movie · as Joe

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Movie · as Self
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Movie · as Shakespeare
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Movie

When the Whales Came
Movie · as Will

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Hercule Poirot · 70 eps
Long Ago and Far Away
TV · 3 eps
4 Play
TV · as Carver · 1 ep

To Kill a Priest
Movie · as Bishop
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Movie · as Leopold Bloom

A World Apart
Movie · as Muller

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV · as Leopold Bloom · 1 ep

The Play on One
TV · as Joe · 1 ep

Harry and the Hendersons
Movie · as Jacques Lafleur

Cause Célèbre
Movie · as T.J. O'Connor

The Last Innocent Man
Movie · as Jonathan Gault

The Dame Edna Experience
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Murrow
Movie · as William Shirer

Iron Eagle
Movie · as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Thirteen at Dinner
Movie · as Insp. Japp

Blott on the Landscape
Movie

The Falcon and the Snowman
Movie · as Alex

A Song for Europe
Movie · as Steve Dyer

Blott on the Landscape
TV · as Blott · 6 eps

Theatre Night
TV · as William Shakespeare · 1 ep

Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV · as Dino Grandi · 4 eps

Screen Two
TV · as Vlachos · 1 ep

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie · as Buller

The Little Drummer Girl
Movie · as Mesterbein

Oxbridge Blues
TV · as Colin · 2 eps

Freud
TV · as Sigmund Freud · 6 eps

Master of the Game
TV · as André d'Usseau · 9 eps

Playing Shakespeare
TV · 9 eps

Red Monarch
Movie · as Beria

Trenchcoat
Movie · as Inspector Stagnos
Being Normal
Movie · as Bill

Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV · as Inspector Tsientsin · 1 ep

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie · as Clopin Trouillefou

The Missionary
Movie · as Corbett

Timewatch
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

American Playhouse
TV · as Edward Teller, Joe · 6 eps

The Cause
Movie · as Reger

A Tale of Two Cities
Movie · as John Barsad

Oppenheimer
TV · as Edward Teller · 6 eps

Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Yves Drouard · 1 ep

An Audience with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Professionals
TV · as Krivas · 1 ep

The Protectors
TV · as Detective, Leo · 1 ep

Play for Today
TV · as Reger · 1 ep

Public Eye
TV · as Martin Kulman · 1 ep

The BAFTA Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep