David Suchet
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 2 May 1946 · London, England, UK
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
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- 2024Poirot and More: A Retrospective as Himself
- 2023Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir as Self
- 2018Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story as Self
- 2018More Than Words as Self
- 2017American Assassin as Director Stansfield
- 2016Peter Pan Goes Wrong as Self (Narrator)
- 2016This Changed Everything as Narrator
- 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Oberon
- 2015The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage as Lady Bracknell
- 2014Effie Gray as Mr. Ruskin
- 2014Long Day's Journey Into Night as James Tyrone
- 2013Being Poirot as Self - Narrator
- 2013The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
- 2012Starring Sigmund Freud
- 2012David Suchet: People I Have Shot as Self - Presenter
- 2011Going Postal 2in1 as Reacherové pozlátko
- 2011All My Sons as Joe Keller
- 2011The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
- 2010David Suchet on the Orient Express as Himself - Presenter
- 2009Diverted as Samuel Stearn
- 2009Act of God as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
- 2008The Bank Job as Lew Vogel
- 2007Flood as DPM Campbell
- 2007Maxwell as Robert Maxwell
- 2006Dracula as Abraham Van Helsing
- 2006Arthur and the Invisibles as Narrator (voice)
- 2006Flushed Away as Rita's Dad (voice)
- 2004A Bear Named Winnie as General Hallholland
- 2004Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers as Narrator
- 2004The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix (voice)
- 2003Foolproof as Leo Gillette
- 2003The In-Laws as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
- 2002Live from Baghdad as Naji Al-Hadithi
- 2002The Stanford Prison Experiment as Narrator (voice)
- 2001Victoria & Albert as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
- 2000Sabotage!! as Napoleón
- 1999RKO 281 as Louis B. Mayer
- 1999Wing Commander as Capt. Jason Sansky
- 1998A Perfect Murder as Mohamed Karaman
- 1997Solomon as Joab
- 1997Sunday as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
- 1996Deadly Voyage as Vlachos
- 1996Moïse as Aaron
- 1996Executive Decision as Nagi Hassan
- 1995Cruel Train as Ruben Roberts
- 1995Moses as Aaron
- 1993Der Fall Lucona as Rudi Waltz
- 1992The Secret Agent as Alfred Verloc
- 1991The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actor
- 1990The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Narrator (voice)
- 1990Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait as Self
- 1990Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death as Shakespeare
- 1990Separation as Joe
- 1989Nobody Here But Us Chickens
- 1989When the Whales Came as Will
- 1989The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly as Hercule Poirot
- 1989Murder in the Mews as Hercule Poirot
- 1988To Kill a Priest as Bishop
- 1988A World Apart as Muller
- 1988James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Leopold Bloom
- 1987Cause Célèbre as T.J. O'Connor
- 1987Harry and the Hendersons as Jacques Lafleur
- 1987The Last Innocent Man as Jonathan Gault
- 1986Murrow as William Shirer
- 1986Iron Eagle as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
- 1985Thirteen at Dinner as Insp. Japp
- 1985A Song for Europe as Steve Dyer
- 1985Blott on the Landscape
- 1985The Falcon and the Snowman as Alex
- 1984The Little Drummer Girl as Mesterbein
- 1984Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Buller
- 1983Being Normal as Bill
- 1983Red Monarch as Beria
- 1983Trenchcoat as Inspector Stagnos
- 1982The Missionary as Corbett
- 1982The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Clopin Trouillefou
- 1981The Cause as Reger
- 1980A Tale of Two Cities as John Barsad
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- 2024Poirot and More: A Retrospective · creator