David Suchet
Acting1946London, 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
Acting History
2025
The One Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
TVas Self - Presenter
The Au Pair
TVas George
2024
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
as Himself
2019
His Dark Materials
TVas Kaisa (voice)• 7 eps
2018
2017
American Assassin
as Director Stansfield
Decline and Fall
TVas Dr Fagan
Doctor Who
TVas The Landlord• 1 eps
Concorde
TVas Self - Narrator
2016
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
as Self (Narrator)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Oberon
This Changed Everything
as Narrator
2015
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
as Lady Bracknell
Capitaine Marleau
TVas Herbert White
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
TVas Self - Presenter
2014
2013
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Being Poirot
as Narrator
The Jesus Storybook Bible
TVas Narrator
2012
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
as Self - Presenter
The Hollow Crown
TVas Duke of York• 1 eps
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
TVas Self - Host
2011
All My Sons
as Joe Keller
The Jesus Storybook Bible
as Narrator
Great Expectations
TVas Mr. Jaggers
Hidden
TVas Sir Nigel Fountain
The Story of Jesus
TVas Narrator
2010
David Suchet on the Orient Express
as Himself - Presenter
Going Postal
TVas Reacher Gilt
2009
Diverted
as Samuel Stearn
Act of God
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
2008
The Bank Job
as Lew Vogel
Who Do You Think You Are?
TVas Self• 1 eps
2007
2006
Flushed Away
as Rita's Dad (voice)
Dracula
as Abraham Van Helsing
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Narrator (voice)
2005
2004
A Bear Named Winnie
as General Hallholland
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as The Phoenix (voice)
2003
2002
Live from Baghdad
as Naji Al-Hadithi
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Narrator (voice)
NCS: Manhunt
TVas DI John Borne
The BAFTA Awards
TVas Self• 1 eps
2001
Victoria & Albert
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
The Way We Live Now
TVas Augustus Melmotte• 4 eps
Murder in Mind
TVas Edward Palmer• 1 eps
2000
Sabotage!!
as Napoleón
1999
Wing Commander
as Capt. Jason Sansky
RKO 281
as Louis B. Mayer
1998
A Perfect Murder
as Mohamed Karaman
Seesaw
TVas Morris Price
1997
Sunday
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
Solomon
as Joab
The Phoenix and the Carpet
TVas The Phoenix (voice)
Solomon
TVas Joab
1996
1995
Moses
as Aaron
Cruel Train
as Ruben Roberts
1993
Der Fall Lucona
as Rudi Waltz
1992
The Secret Agent
as Alfred Verloc
1991
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
as Self - Actor
1990
Separation
as Joe
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Narrator (voice)
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
as Shakespeare
1989
When the Whales Came
as Will
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Hercule Poirot• 70 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVAssociate Producer
1988
A World Apart
as Muller
To Kill a Priest
as Bishop
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
as Leopold Bloom
An Audience with...
TVas Self• 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
TVas Yves Drouard• 1 eps
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TVas Leopold Bloom
The Play on One
TVas Joe
1987
Harry and the Hendersons
as Jacques Lafleur
Cause Célèbre
as T.J. O'Connor
The Last Innocent Man
as Jonathan Gault
The Dame Edna Experience
TVas Self
1986
Iron Eagle
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
Murrow
as William Shirer
1985
A Song for Europe
as Steve Dyer
Thirteen at Dinner
as Insp. Japp
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Alex
Blott on the Landscape
TVas Blott
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TVas Dino Grandi
1984
The Little Drummer Girl
as Mesterbein
Master of the Game
TVas André d'Usseau
Oxbridge Blues
TVas Colin
Freud
TVas Sigmund Freud
1983
Red Monarch
as Beria
Trenchcoat
as Inspector Stagnos
Being Normal
as Bill
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TVas Inspector Tsientsin
1982
The Missionary
as Corbett
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Clopin Trouillefou
Timewatch
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
1981
The Cause
as Reger
Play for Today
TVas Reger• 1 eps
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
as John Barsad
Oppenheimer
TVas Edward Teller
1978
The Professionals
TVas Krivas• 1 eps
1973
The Protectors
TVas Leo• 1 eps
1971
Public Eye
TVas Martin Kulman• 1 eps