David Suchet

ActorCrewProduction May 2 (age 79) London, England, UK 1949–2025 (76 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

The Bank Job

Lew Vogel

Film

Flushed Away

Rita's Dad (voice)

Film

American Assassin

Director Stansfield

Film

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hercule Poirot

Film

Arthur and the Invisibles

Narrator (voice)

Film

A Perfect Murder

Mohamed Karaman

Film

Executive Decision

Nagi Hassan

Film

Harry and the Hendersons

Jacques Lafleur

Filmography

Acting (137)

Movies (80)

Poirot and More: A Retrospective

2024

as Himself

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

2023

as Self

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

2023

as Self

More Than Words

2018

as Self

8.0

American Assassin

2017

as Director Stansfield

6.4

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

2016

as Self (Narrator)

7.5

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

as Oberon

7.2

This Changed Everything

2016

as Narrator

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

as Lady Bracknell

Effie Gray

as Mr. Ruskin

Long Day's Journey Into Night

2014

as James Tyrone

Being Poirot

2013

as Narrator

7.7

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

2013

as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

7.5

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

2012

as Self - Presenter

Starring Sigmund Freud

2012

All My Sons

2011

as Joe Keller

The Jesus Storybook Bible

2011

as Narrator

10.0

David Suchet on the Orient Express

2010

as Himself - Presenter

6.8

Murder on the Orient Express

2010

as Hercule Poirot

8.0

Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express

2010

as Hercule Poirot

Diverted

2009

as Samuel Stearn

6.8

Act of God

2009

as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

The Bank Job

as Lew Vogel

Flood

as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

Maxwell

as Robert Maxwell

Flushed Away

as Rita's Dad (voice)

6.3

Arthur and the Invisibles

2006

as Narrator (voice)

6.4

Dracula

2006

as Abraham Van Helsing

5.6

The Mystery of the Blue Train

2005

as Hercule Poirot

Cards on the Table

2005

as Hercule Poirot

A Bear Named Winnie

2004

as General Hallholland

6.7

The Phoenix and the Carpet

2004

as The Phoenix (voice)

Death on the Nile

2004

as Hercule Poirot

The Hollow

2004

as Hercule Poirot

The In-Laws

2003

as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

5.6

Foolproof

2003

as Leo Gillette

6.1

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2002

as Narrator (voice)

Live from Baghdad

2002

as Naji Al-Hadithi

6.7

Victoria & Albert

2001

as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Sabotage!!

as Napoleón

RKO 281

as Louis B. Mayer

Wing Commander

as Capt. Jason Sansky

A Perfect Murder

as Mohamed Karaman

Solomon

as Joab

Sunday

as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Executive Decision

as Nagi Hassan

Deadly Voyage

as Vlachos

Moses

as Aaron

Cruel Train

as Ruben Roberts

Der Fall Lucona

as Rudi Waltz

The Secret Agent

as Alfred Verloc

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

1991

as Self - Actor

10.0

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death

1990

as Shakespeare

Separation

1990

as Joe

6.0

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

1990

as Self

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

as Narrator (voice)

When the Whales Came

as Will

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

1989

The Third Floor Flat

1989

as Hercule Poirot

A World Apart

as Muller

To Kill a Priest

as Bishop

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

1988

as Leopold Bloom

Harry and the Hendersons

as Jacques Lafleur

Cause Célèbre

as T.J. O'Connor

The Last Innocent Man

1987

as Jonathan Gault

4.9

Iron Eagle

1986

as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Murrow

as William Shirer

A Song for Europe

as Steve Dyer

The Falcon and the Snowman

as Alex

Thirteen at Dinner

as Insp. Japp

Blott on the Landscape

1985

8.8

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984

as Buller

6.4

The Little Drummer Girl

as Mesterbein

Trenchcoat

as Inspector Stagnos

Red Monarch

as Beria

Being Normal

as Bill

The Missionary

1982

as Corbett

5.5

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982

as Clopin Trouillefou

5.7

The Cause

1981

as Reger

A Tale of Two Cities

1980

as John Barsad

5.7

Television (57)

The Au Pair

2025

as George

6.6

Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet

as Self - Presenter

His Dark Materials

as Kaisa (voice)

The Goes Wrong Show

as Narrator (voice)

Press

as George Emmerson

Urban Myths

as Salvador Dali

Decline and Fall

as Dr Fagan

Concorde

as Self - Narrator

Capitaine Marleau

2015

as Herbert White

6.0

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter

2015

as Self - Presenter

8.0

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

2015

The Jesus Storybook Bible

2013

as Narrator

The Hollow Crown

2012

as Duke of York

7.4

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul

2012

as Self - Host

Great Expectations

as Mr. Jaggers

Perspectives

Hidden

as Sir Nigel Fountain

6.2

The Story of Jesus

2011

as Narrator

Going Postal

as Reacher Gilt

Q&A

as Self - Panellist

Inundación

The One Show

as Self

Doctor Who

as The Landlord

Extinct

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

6.7

Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets

Henry VIII

as Thomas Wolsey

NCS: Manhunt

as DI John Borne

Richard & Judy

as Self

Murder in Mind

as Edward Palmer

The Way We Live Now

as Augustus Melmotte

Seesaw

as Morris Price

Solomon

1997

as Joab

The Phoenix and the Carpet

1997

as The Phoenix (voice)

Moses

1996

as Aaron

6.5

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Hercule Poirot

8.2

Long Ago and Far Away

1989

9.0

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Leopold Bloom

The Play on One

1988

as Joe

6.0

The Dame Edna Experience

1987

as Self

4.0

Theatre Night

1985

Mussolini: The Untold Story

1985

as Dino Grandi

4.8

Blott on the Landscape

as Blott

Master of the Game

as André d'Usseau

Freud

as Sigmund Freud

Oxbridge Blues

as Colin

Playing Shakespeare

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Inspector Tsientsin

7.0

Timewatch

1982

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.9

Oppenheimer

1980

as Edward Teller

6.5

Tales of the Unexpected

as Yves Drouard

An Audience with...

as Self

The Professionals

as Krivas

The Protectors

as Leo

Play for Today

as Reger

Public Eye

as Martin Kulman

The BAFTA Awards

as Self

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

Poirot and More: A Retrospective

2024

Creator

Television (1)

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Associate Producer

8.2