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.
Known For
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The One Show
2006
Play for Today
1970
American Playhouse
1982
American Playhouse
1982
Screen Two
1985
Richard & Judy
2001
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
His Dark Materials
2019
The Professionals
1977
An Audience with...
1978
Filmography
Doctor Who
as The Landlord · 2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Hercule Poirot · 1989
The One Show
as Self · 2006
Play for Today
as Reger · 1970
American Playhouse
as Edward Teller · 1982
American Playhouse
as Joe · 1982
Screen Two
as Vlachos · 1985
Richard & Judy
as Self · 2001
Tales of the Unexpected
as Yves Drouard · 1979
His Dark Materials
as Kaisa (voice) · 2019
The Professionals
as Krivas · 1977
An Audience with...
as Self · 1978
Q&A
as Self - Panellist · 2008
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self · 2004
Flushed Away
as Rita's Dad (voice) · 2006
Timewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1982
The BAFTA Awards
as Self · 1949
Great Expectations
as Mr. Jaggers · 2011
The Play on One
as Joe · 1988
The Protectors
as Detective · 1972
The Protectors
as Leo · 1972
Public Eye
as Martin Kulman · 1965
The Bank Job
as Lew Vogel · 2008
The Hollow Crown
as Duke of York · 2012
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Leopold Bloom · 1988
American Assassin
as Director Stansfield · 2017
Urban Myths
as Salvador Dali · 2017
Capitaine Marleau
as Herbert White · 2015
Murder in Mind
as Edward Palmer · 2001
A Perfect Murder
as Mohamed Karaman · 1998
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Narrator (voice) · 2006
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Inspector Tsientsin · 1983
Theatre Night
as William Shakespeare · 1985
Executive Decision
as Nagi Hassan · 1996
Playing Shakespeare
· 1984
Perspectives
· 2011
Henry VIII
as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey · 2003
The Dame Edna Experience
as Self · 1987
Oppenheimer
as Edward Teller · 1980
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
· 2004
Master of the Game
as André d'Usseau · 1984
Harry and the Hendersons
as Jacques Lafleur · 1987
Going Postal
as Reacher Gilt · 2010
Oxbridge Blues
as Colin · 1984
Moses
as Aaron · 1996
Iron Eagle
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh · 1986
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Buller · 1984
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as Dino Grandi · 1985
The Way We Live Now
as Augustus Melmotte · 2001
4 Play
as Carver · 1989
The In-Laws
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux · 2003
Wing Commander
as Capt. Jason Sansky · 1999
Press
as George Emmerson · 2018
Thirteen at Dinner
as Insp. Japp · 1985
Flood
as DPM Campbell · 2007
Decline and Fall
as Dr Fagan · 2017
Long Ago and Far Away
· 1989
Effie Gray
as Mr. Ruskin · 2014
Freud
as Sigmund Freud · 1984
Hidden
as Sir Nigel Fountain · 2011
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Alex · 1985
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as The Phoenix (voice) · 1997
Live from Baghdad
as Naji Al-Hadithi · 2002
Blott on the Landscape
as Blott · 1985
A Bear Named Winnie
as General Hallholland · 2004
To Kill a Priest
as Bishop · 1988
The Jesus Storybook Bible
as Narrator · 2013
The Au Pair
as George · 2025
Foolproof
as Leo Gillette · 2003
Solomon
as Joab · 1997
NCS: Manhunt
as DI John Borne · 2002
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
as Self - Presenter · 2025
Going Postal 2in1
as Reacherové pozlátko · 2011
The Little Drummer Girl
as Mesterbein · 1984
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Clopin Trouillefou · 1982
Solomon
as Joab · 1997
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Oberon · 2016
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
as Self - Presenter · 2015
A Tale of Two Cities
as John Barsad · 1980
RKO 281
as Louis B. Mayer · 1999
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
as Self (Narrator) · 2016
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
as Self · 2018
When the Whales Came
as Will · 1989
Dracula
as Abraham Van Helsing · 2006
The Last Innocent Man
as Jonathan Gault · 1987
The Missionary
as Corbett · 1982
Trenchcoat
as Inspector Stagnos · 1983
Red Monarch
as Beria · 1983
Deadly Voyage
as Vlachos · 1996
Being Poirot
as Self - Narrator · 2013
The Story of Jesus
as Narrator · 2011
Extinct
· 2005
Victoria & Albert
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD · 2001
Seesaw
as Morris Price · 1998
Concorde
as Self - Narrator · 2017
The Secret Agent
as Alfred Verloc · 1992
A World Apart
as Muller · 1988
More Than Words
as Self · 2018
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
as Leopold Bloom · 1988
David Suchet on the Orient Express
as Himself - Presenter · 2010
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as James Tyrone · 2014
The Secret Agent
as Alfred Verloc · 1992
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
as Self · 1990
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
· 1989
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice) · 2013
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Narrator (voice) · 1990
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
as Self - Actor · 1991
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as The Phoenix (voice) · 2004
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
as Self - Host · 2012
A Song for Europe
as Steve Dyer · 1985
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
as Lady Bracknell · 2015
Cause Célèbre
as T.J. O'Connor · 1987
Der Fall Lucona
as Rudi Waltz · 1993
Blott on the Landscape
· 1985
Diverted
as Samuel Stearn · 2009
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
as Self · 2023
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
as Self - Presenter · 2012
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
as Shakespeare · 1990
Cruel Train
as Ruben Roberts · 1995
Sabotage!!
as Napoleón · 2000
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Narrator (voice) · 2002
Act of God
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco · 2009
Maxwell
as Robert Maxwell · 2007
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
as Himself · 2024
Murrow
as William Shirer · 1986
Being Normal
as Bill · 1983
The Jesus Storybook Bible
as Narrator · 2011
Starring Sigmund Freud
· 2012
Sunday
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta · 1997
This Changed Everything
as Narrator · 2016
All My Sons
as Joe Keller · 2011
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
as Narrator · 2004
The Cause
as Reger · 1981
Separation
as Joe · 1990