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.
Movies (63)
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
American Assassin
2017
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
This Changed Everything
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
Effie Gray
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
Being Poirot
2013
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
Diverted
2009
Act of God
2009
The Bank Job
2008
Flood
2007
Maxwell
2007
Dracula
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
Flushed Away
2006
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Foolproof
2003
The In-Laws
2003
Live from Baghdad
2002
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
Victoria & Albert
2001
Sabotage!!
2000
RKO 281
1999
Wing Commander
1999
A Perfect Murder
1998
Solomon
1997
Sunday
1997
Deadly Voyage
1996
Executive Decision
1996
Cruel Train
1995
Der Fall Lucona
1993
The Secret Agent
1992
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
When the Whales Came
1989
To Kill a Priest
1988
A World Apart
1988
Cause Célèbre
1987
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Murrow
1986
Iron Eagle
1986
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Red Monarch
1983
Trenchcoat
1983
The Missionary
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
The Cause
1981
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
TV Shows (54)
The Au Pair
2025
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
His Dark Materials
2019
Press
2018
More Than Words
2018
Concorde
2017
Decline and Fall
2017
Urban Myths
2017
Capitaine Marleau
2015
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
The Hollow Crown
2012
Great Expectations
2011
Hidden
2011
Perspectives
2011
The Story of Jesus
2011
Going Postal
2010
Q&A
2008
The One Show
2006
Doctor Who
2005
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Henry VIII
2003
NCS: Manhunt
2002
Richard & Judy
2001
The Way We Live Now
2001
Murder in Mind
2001
Seesaw
1998
Solomon
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Moses
1996
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Theatre Night
1985
Blott on the Landscape
1985
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Freud
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Master of the Game
1984
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Timewatch
1982
Oppenheimer
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
An Audience with...
1978
The Professionals
1977
The Protectors
1972
The Protectors
1972
Play for Today
1970
Public Eye
1965
The BAFTA Awards
1949