David Suchet

Acting

02-05-1946

He/Him

David Suchet, OBE, CBE, 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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Movies (Acting)

Poirot and More: A Retrospective

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

More Than Words

Director Stansfield

American Assassin

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

This Changed Everything

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

Starring Sigmund Freud

Self - Presenter

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Himself - Presenter

David Suchet on the Orient Express

Dr. Benjamin Cisco

Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

Abraham Van Helsing

Narrator (voice)

Arthur and the Invisibles

Rita's Dad (voice)

General Hallholland

A Bear Named Winnie

The Phoenix (voice)

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

Naji Al-Hadithi

Live from Baghdad

Narrator (voice)

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Victoria & Albert

Capt. Jason Sansky

Mohamed Karaman

A Perfect Murder

Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Executive Decision

Der Fall Lucona

The Secret Agent

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

Narrator (voice)

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

When the Whales Came

To Kill a Priest

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Cause Célèbre

Jacques Lafleur

Harry and the Hendersons

The Last Innocent Man

Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Thirteen at Dinner

A Song for Europe

Blott on the Landscape

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Little Drummer Girl

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Inspector Stagnos

Clopin Trouillefou

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A Tale of Two Cities

TV Shows (Acting)

Self - Presenter

Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet

His Dark Materials

George Emmerson

Self - Narrator

Decline and Fall

Capitaine Marleau

Self - Presenter

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter

The Jesus Storybook Bible

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul

The Hollow Crown

Great Expectations

Sir Nigel Fountain

The Story of Jesus

Self - Panellist

Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets

Who Do You Think You Are?

Augustus Melmotte

The Way We Live Now

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Long Ago and Far Away

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Play on One

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

The Dame Edna Experience

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Blott on the Landscape

Playing Shakespeare

André d'Usseau

Master of the Game

Inspector Tsientsin

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tales of the Unexpected

An Audience with...

The Professionals

The BAFTA Awards

Movies (Production)

Poirot and More: A Retrospective

TV Shows (Production)

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Associate Producer