David Suchet
Known for Acting · 127 credits
- Born
- 1946-05-02 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- David Courtney Suchet · Дэвид Суше · 데이비드 수쳇 · دیوید سوشه
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
TV Shows (56)
Doctor Who
2005
as The Landlord
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Hercule Poirot
Play for Today
1970
as Reger
The One Show
2006
as Self
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Yves Drouard
The Professionals
1977
as Krivas
Screen Two
1985
as Vlachos
Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
His Dark Materials
2019
as Kaisa (voice)
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Duke of York
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
The Protectors
1972
as Detective / Leo
Timewatch
1982
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Murder in Mind
2001
as Edward Palmer
Public Eye
1965
as Martin Kulman
The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Self
Capitaine Marleau
2015
as Herbert White
Urban Myths
2017
as Salvador Dali
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
as Inspector Tsientsin
Great Expectations
2011
as Mr. Jaggers
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Leopold Bloom
Henry VIII
2003
as Thomas Wolsey
Perspectives
2011
Oppenheimer
1980
as Edward Teller
Master of the Game
1984
as André d'Usseau
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Going Postal
2010
as Reacher Gilt
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
as Self
Press
2018
as George Emmerson
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
as Dino Grandi
Hidden
2011
as Sir Nigel Fountain
Theatre Night
1985
The Way We Live Now
2001
as Augustus Melmotte
NCS: Manhunt
2002
as DI John Borne
Freud
1984
as Sigmund Freud
Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Colin
Moses
1996
as Aaron
Decline and Fall
2017
as Dr Fagan
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
Blott on the Landscape
1985
as Blott
Solomon
1997
as Joab
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
The Au Pair
2025
as George
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
as The Phoenix (voice)
Seesaw
1998
as Morris Price
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
as Narrator
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
as Self - Presenter
The Story of Jesus
2011
as Narrator
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
Concorde
2017
as Self - Narrator
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
as Self - Host
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
as Self - Presenter
Extinct
2005
More Than Words
2018
as Self
Movies (71)
Flushed Away
2006
as Rita's Dad (voice)
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
as Narrator (voice)
American Assassin
2017
as Director Stansfield
The Bank Job
2008
as Lew Vogel
A Perfect Murder
1998
as Mohamed Karaman
Executive Decision
1996
as Nagi Hassan
Flood
2007
as DPM Campbell
Effie Gray
2014
as Mr. Ruskin
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
as Jacques Lafleur
Wing Commander
1999
as Capt. Jason Sansky
Iron Eagle
1986
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Buller
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Alex
The Missionary
1982
as Corbett
RKO 281
1999
as Louis B. Mayer
Trenchcoat
1983
as Inspector Stagnos
Solomon
1997
as Joab
The In-Laws
2003
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
Foolproof
2003
as Leo Gillette
A World Apart
1988
as Muller
Live from Baghdad
2002
as Naji Al-Hadithi
Cause Célèbre
1987
as T.J. O'Connor
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
as Insp. Japp
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
as Mesterbein
Red Monarch
1983
as Beria
Deadly Voyage
1996
as Vlachos
Sunday
1997
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
Dracula
2006
as Abraham Van Helsing
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
as General Hallholland
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Oberon
Victoria & Albert
2001
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Clopin Trouillefou
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
as Narrator (voice)
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
as John Barsad
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Bishop
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
as Leopold Bloom
The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Jonathan Gault
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
as Himself - Presenter
Diverted
2009
as Samuel Stearn
When the Whales Came
1989
as Will
Murrow
1986
as William Shirer
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
All My Sons
2011
as Joe Keller
Maxwell
2007
as Robert Maxwell
The Secret Agent
1992
as Alfred Verloc
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
as James Tyrone
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
as Self
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
as Self
Separation
1990
as Joe
Cruel Train
1995
as Ruben Roberts
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Der Fall Lucona
1993
as Rudi Waltz
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Cause
1981
as Reger
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
as Self (Narrator)
Being Poirot
2013
as Narrator
A Song for Europe
1985
as Steve Dyer
Sabotage!!
2000
as Napoleón
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Actor
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
as Lady Bracknell
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
as The Phoenix (voice)
Act of God
2009
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
as Shakespeare
Being Normal
1983
as Bill
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
as Self
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
as Self - Presenter
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
as Narrator
This Changed Everything
2016
as Narrator
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024
as Himself
About David Suchet
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 televisi… With 127 credits spanning from 1949 to 2025, David Suchet has appeared in 71 films and 56 TV shows.
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Most Popular David Suchet Movies
- Flushed Away (2006) — as Rita's Dad (voice)
- Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) — as Narrator (voice)
- American Assassin (2017) — as Director Stansfield
- The Bank Job (2008) — as Lew Vogel
- A Perfect Murder (1998) — as Mohamed Karaman
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