
David Suchet
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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
Credits

Flushed Away (2006)
as Rita's Dad (voice)

The Bank Job (2008)
as Lew Vogel

American Assassin (2017)
as Director Stansfield

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
as Narrator (voice)

A Perfect Murder (1998)
as Mohamed Karaman

Executive Decision (1996)
as Nagi Hassan

Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
as Jacques Lafleur

Flood (2007)
as DPM Campbell

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Buller

Wing Commander (1999)
as Capt. Jason Sansky

Iron Eagle (1986)
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Trenchcoat (1983)
as Inspector Stagnos

The In-Laws (2003)
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
as Insp. Japp

Being Poirot (2013)
as Self - Narrator

Going Postal 2in1 (2011)
as Reacherové pozlátko

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
as Alex

Foolproof (2003)
as Leo Gillette

Effie Gray (2014)
as Mr. Ruskin

The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
as Mesterbein
Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
Actor

Solomon (1997)
as Joab

A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
as General Hallholland

Dracula (2006)
as Abraham Van Helsing
Being Normal (1983)
as Bill
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (1988)
as Leopold Bloom

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
as Clopin Trouillefou

To Kill a Priest (1988)
as Bishop

The Missionary (1982)
as Corbett

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
as John Barsad

Victoria & Albert (2001)
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

The Stanford Prison Experiment (2002)
as Narrator (voice)

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
as Oberon
Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989)
Actor

RKO 281 (1999)
as Louis B. Mayer

Live from Baghdad (2002)
as Naji Al-Hadithi

David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010)
as Himself - Presenter

David Suchet: People I Have Shot (2012)
as Self - Presenter

Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers (2004)
as Narrator

Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016)
as Self (Narrator)

Diverted (2009)
as Samuel Stearn

The Jesus Storybook Bible (2011)
as Narrator

Red Monarch (1983)
as Beria

The Last Innocent Man (1987)
as Jonathan Gault

All My Sons (2011)
as Joe Keller

A World Apart (1988)
as Muller

Deadly Voyage (1996)
as Vlachos

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990)
as Narrator (voice)

Poirot and More: A Retrospective (2024)
as Himself

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story (2018)
as Self

This Changed Everything (2016)
as Narrator

Cause Célèbre (1987)
as T.J. O'Connor

When the Whales Came (1989)
as Will

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)
as Self
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1990)
as Shakespeare

Cruel Train (1995)
as Ruben Roberts

Blott on the Landscape (1985)
Actor

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir (2023)
as Self

Der Fall Lucona (1993)
as Rudi Waltz

Maxwell (2007)
as Robert Maxwell

The Phoenix and the Carpet (2004)
as The Phoenix (voice)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (2014)
as James Tyrone

A Song for Europe (1985)
as Steve Dyer

The Secret Agent (1992)
as Alfred Verloc

Sunday (1997)
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Act of God (2009)
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

Sabotage!! (2000)
as Napoleón

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage (2015)
as Lady Bracknell

Murrow (1986)
as William Shirer

The Trouble With Agatha Christie (1991)
as Self - Actor

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet (2013)
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

The Cause (1981)
as Reger
Separation (1990)
as Joe





