David Suchet
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 2, 1946 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
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
| 2025 | Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David SuchetSelf - Presenter | |
| 2025 | The Au PairGeorge | |
| 2024 | Poirot and More: A RetrospectiveHimself | |
| 2023 | Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle ChoirSelf | |
| 2019 | His Dark MaterialsKaisa (voice) | |
| 2018 | More Than WordsSelf | |
| 2018 | Near Myth: The Oskar Knight StorySelf | |
| 2018 | PressGeorge Emmerson | |
| 2017 | American AssassinDirector Stansfield | |
| 2017 | ConcordeSelf - Narrator | |
| 2017 | Urban MythsSalvador Dali | |
| 2017 | Decline and FallDr Fagan | |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSCOberon | |
| 2016 | Peter Pan Goes WrongSelf (Narrator) | |
| 2016 | This Changed EverythingNarrator | |
| 2015 | The Importance of Being Earnest on StageLady Bracknell | |
| 2015 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St PeterSelf - Presenter | |
| 2015 | Capitaine MarleauHerbert White | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Fan Show | |
| 2014 | Effie GrayMr. Ruskin | |
| 2014 | Long Day's Journey Into NightJames Tyrone | |
| 2013 | The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David SuchetSelf - Host / Narrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | Being PoirotNarrator | |
| 2013 | Elephants Can RememberHercule Poirot | |
| 2013 | The Big FourHercule Poirot | |
| 2013 | Dead Man's FollyHercule Poirot | |
| 2013 | The Labours of HerculesHercule Poirot | |
| 2013 | Curtain: Poirot's Last CaseHercule Poirot | |
| 2013 | The Jesus Storybook BibleNarrator | |
| 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | |
| 2012 | David Suchet: People I Have ShotSelf - Presenter | |
| 2012 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. PaulSelf - Host | |
| 2012 | The Hollow CrownDuke of York | |
| 2011 | The Jesus Storybook BibleNarrator | |
| 2011 | All My SonsJoe Keller | |
| 2011 | Hallowe'en PartyHercule Poirot | |
| 2011 | Three Act TragedyHercule Poirot | |
| 2011 | The ClocksHercule Poirot | |
| 2011 | Great ExpectationsMr. Jaggers | |
| 2011 | HiddenSir Nigel Fountain | |
| 2011 | Perspectives | |
| 2011 | The Story of JesusNarrator | |
| 2010 | David Suchet on the Orient ExpressHimself - Presenter | |
| 2010 | Murder on the Orient ExpressHercule Poirot | |
| 2010 | Third GirlHercule Poirot | |
| 2010 | Appointment with DeathHercule Poirot | |
| 2010 | Going PostalReacher Gilt | |
| 2009 | DivertedSamuel Stearn | |
| 2009 | Act of GodDr. Benjamin Cisco | |
| 2009 | Cat Among the PigeonsHercule Poirot | |
| 2008 | The Bank JobLew Vogel | |
| 2008 | Mrs. McGinty's DeadHercule Poirot | |
| 2008 | Q&ASelf - Panellist | |
| 2007 | FloodDPM Campbell | |
| 2007 | MaxwellRobert Maxwell | |
| 2006 | Flushed AwayRita's Dad (voice) | |
| 2006 | DraculaAbraham Van Helsing | |
| 2006 | Arthur and the InvisiblesNarrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | Cards on the TableHercule Poirot | |
| 2006 | After the FuneralHercule Poirot | |
| 2006 | Taken at the FloodHercule Poirot | |
| 2006 | The One ShowSelf | |
| 2005 | The Mystery of the Blue TrainHercule Poirot | |
| 2005 | Extinct | |
| 2005 | Doctor WhoThe Landlord | |
| 2004 | A Bear Named WinnieGeneral Hallholland | |
| 2004 | The Phoenix and the CarpetThe Phoenix (voice) | |
| 2004 | Death on the NileHercule Poirot | |
| 2004 | The HollowHercule Poirot | |
| 2004 | Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets | |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are?Self | |
| 2003 | FoolproofLeo Gillette | |
| 2003 | The In-LawsJean-Pierre Thibodoux | |
| 2003 | Evil Under the SunHercule Poirot | |
| 2003 | Five Little PigsHercule Poirot | |
| 2003 | Sad CypressHercule Poirot | |
| 2003 | Henry VIIIThomas Wolsey | |
| 2002 | The Stanford Prison ExperimentNarrator (voice) | |
| 2002 | Live from BaghdadNaji Al-Hadithi | |
| 2002 | NCS: ManhuntDI John Borne | |
| 2001 | Victoria & AlbertBaron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD | |
| 2001 | Murder in MesopotamiaHercule Poirot | |
| 2001 | Richard & JudySelf | |
| 2001 | The Way We Live NowAugustus Melmotte | |
| 2001 | Murder in MindEdward Palmer | |
| 2000 | Sabotage!!Napoleón | |
| 2000 | The Murder of Roger AckroydHercule Poirot | |
| 2000 | Lord Edgware DiesHercule Poirot | |
| 1999 | RKO 281Louis B. Mayer | |
| 1999 | Wing CommanderCapt. Jason Sansky | |
| 1998 | A Perfect MurderMohamed Karaman | |
| 1998 | SeesawMorris Price | |
| 1997 | SundayOliver / Matthew Delacorta | |
| 1997 | SolomonJoab | |
| 1997 | SolomonJoab | |
| 1997 | The Phoenix and the CarpetThe Phoenix (voice) | |
| 1996 | Executive DecisionNagi Hassan | |
| 1996 | Deadly VoyageVlachos | |
| 1996 | Murder on the LinksHercule Poirot | |
| 1996 | Dumb WitnessHercule Poirot | |
| 1996 | MosesAaron | |
| 1995 | Cruel TrainRuben Roberts | |
| 1995 | MosesAaron | |
| 1995 | Hickory Dickory DockHercule Poirot | |
| 1994 | Hercule Poirot's ChristmasHercule Poirot | |
| 1993 | Der Fall LuconaRudi Waltz | |
| 1992 | The Secret AgentAlfred Verloc | |
| 1991 | The Trouble With Agatha ChristieSelf - Actor | |
| 1990 | The Fool of the World and the Flying ShipNarrator (voice) | |
| 1990 | SeparationJoe | |
| 1990 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished PortraitSelf | |
| 1990 | Bingo: Scenes of Money and DeathShakespeare | |
| 1989 | Nobody Here But Us Chickens | |
| 1989 | When the Whales CameWill | |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's PoirotHercule Poirot | |
| 1989 | Long Ago and Far Away | |
| 1988 | To Kill a PriestBishop | |
| 1988 | James Joyce's 'Ulysses'Leopold Bloom | |
| 1988 | A World ApartMuller | |
| 1988 | The Play on OneJoe | |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great WritersLeopold Bloom | |
| 1987 | Harry and the HendersonsJacques Lafleur | |
| 1987 | Cause CélèbreT.J. O'Connor | |
| 1987 | The Last Innocent ManJonathan Gault | |
| 1987 | The Dame Edna ExperienceSelf | |
| 1986 | MurrowWilliam Shirer | |
| 1986 | Iron EagleMinister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh | |
| 1985 | Thirteen at DinnerInsp. Japp | |
| 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the SnowmanAlex | |
| 1985 | A Song for EuropeSteve Dyer | |
| 1985 | Blott on the LandscapeBlott | |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | |
| 1985 | Mussolini: The Untold StoryDino Grandi | |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the ApesBuller | |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer GirlMesterbein | |
| 1984 | Oxbridge BluesColin | |
| 1984 | FreudSigmund Freud | |
| 1984 | Master of the GameAndré d'Usseau | |
| 1984 | Playing Shakespeare | |
| 1983 | Red MonarchBeria | |
| 1983 | TrenchcoatInspector Stagnos | |
| 1983 | Being NormalBill | |
| 1983 | Reilly: Ace of SpiesInspector Tsientsin | |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre DameClopin Trouillefou | |
| 1982 | The MissionaryCorbett | |
| 1982 | TimewatchSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 1981 | The CauseReger | |
| 1980 | A Tale of Two CitiesJohn Barsad | |
| 1980 | OppenheimerEdward Teller | |
| 1979 | Tales of the UnexpectedYves Drouard | |
| 1978 | An Audience with...Self | |
| 1977 | The ProfessionalsKrivas | |
| 1972 | The ProtectorsDetective | |
| 1972 | The ProtectorsLeo | |
| 1970 | Play for TodayReger | |
| 1965 | Public EyeMartin Kulman | |
| 1949 | The BAFTA AwardsSelf | |
| - | Death in the CloudsHercule Poirot |
| 2011 | Hallowe'en PartyAssociate Producer | |
| 2010 | Murder on the Orient ExpressAssociate Producer | |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's PoirotAssociate Producer |
| 2024 | Poirot and More: A RetrospectiveCreator |