David Suchet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Suchet, OBE, CBE, (play /ˈsuːʃeɪ/ soo-shay; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised 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, and his father was gynaecologist Jack Suchet. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Suchet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 2, 1946 In London, England, United Kingdom
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 88
- First Appeared:
- In the series Public Eye 1965-01-23
- Latest Project:
- Series The Au Pair 2025-03-10
Known For
Filmography
| Series | The Au Pair | George | 2025-03-10 |
| Movie | Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story | Self | 2023-04-09 |
| Movie | More Than Words | Self | 2018-01-29 |
| Series | Urban Myths | Salvador Dali | 2017-01-19 |
| Series | Decline and Fall | Dr. Fagan | 2017-03-31 |
| Movie | American Assassin | Director Stansfield | 2017-07-14 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Oberon | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Narrator | 2016-12-31 |
| Series | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter | Self - Presenter | 2015-04-03 |
| Movie | The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage | Lady Bracknell | 2015-10-08 |
| Movie | Effie Gray | Mr. Ruskin | 2014-03-08 |
| Movie | The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet | Self - Host / Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-17 |
| Movie | Starring Sigmund Freud | 2012-11-01 | |
| Movie | All My Sons | Joe Keller | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator | 2011-02-01 |
| Series | Hidden | Sir Nigel Fountain | 2011-10-06 |
| Series | Great Expectations | Mr. Jaggers | 2011-12-27 |
| Series | Going Postal | Reacher Gilt | 2010-05-30 |
| Movie | David Suchet on the Orient Express | Himself - Presenter | 2010-07-07 |
| Movie | Act of God | Dr. Benjamin Cisco | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Diverted | Samuel Stearn | 2009-03-08 |
| Movie | The Bank Job | Lew Vogel | 2008-02-28 |
| Movie | Flood | Deputy Prime Minister Campbell | 2007-08-24 |
| Movie | Maxwell | Robert Maxwell | 2007-05-04 |
| Movie | Arthur and the Invisibles | Narrator (voice) | 2006-12-13 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | Rita's Dad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing | 2006-12-28 |
| Series | Doctor Who | The Landlord | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | Extinct | 2005-12-09 | |
| Series | Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets | 2004-11-09 | |
| Movie | A Bear Named Winnie | General Hallholland | 2004-12-12 |
| Movie | The In-Laws | Jean-Pierre Thibodoux | 2003-05-23 |
| Movie | Foolproof | Leo Gillette | 2003-10-03 |
| Series | Henry VIII | Thomas Wolsey | 2003-10-12 |
| Movie | Live from Baghdad | Naji Al-Hadithi | 2002-12-07 |
| Movie | Victoria & Albert | Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD | 2001-08-26 |
| Series | Murder in Mind | Edward Palmer | 2001-04-22 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Series | The Way We Live Now | Augustus Melmotte | 2001-11-11 |
| Movie | RKO 281 | Louis B. Mayer | 2000-04-07 |
| Movie | Sabotage!! | Napoleón | 2000-10-14 |
| Movie | Wing Commander | Capt. Jason Sansky | 1999-03-11 |
| Movie | A Perfect Murder | Mohamed Karaman | 1998-06-05 |
| Movie | Sunday | Oliver / Matthew Delacorta | 1997-05-01 |
| Movie | Solomon | Joab | 1997-12-15 |
| Series | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix | 1997-11-16 |
| Movie | Executive Decision | Nagi Hassan | 1996-03-15 |
| Movie | Deadly Voyage | Vlachos | 1996-06-14 |
| Movie | Der Fall Lucona | Rudi Waltz | 1993-06-10 |
| Movie | The Secret Agent | Alfred Verloc | 1992-10-28 |
| Movie | The Trouble With Agatha Christie | Self - Actor | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Separation | Joe | 1990-06-27 |
| Movie | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Narrator (voice) | 1990-09-28 |
| Series | Long Ago and Far Away | 1989-02-11 | |
| Series | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | 1989-01-08 |
| Movie | When the Whales Came | Will | 1989-03-28 |
| Movie | Nobody Here But Us Chickens | 1989-11-25 | |
| Movie | James Joyce's 'Ulysses' | Leopold Bloom | 1988-01-10 |
| Movie | To Kill a Priest | Bishop | 1988-09-07 |
| Movie | A World Apart | Muller | 1988-06-17 |
| Movie | The Last Innocent Man | Jonathan Gault | 1987-04-19 |
| Movie | Harry and the Hendersons | Jacques Lafleur | 1987-06-05 |
| Movie | Cause Célèbre | T.J. O'Connor | 1987-08-23 |
| Movie | Iron Eagle | Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh | 1986-01-17 |
| Movie | Murrow | William Shirer | 1986-01-19 |
| Series | Blott on the Landscape | Blott | 1985-02-06 |
| Movie | The Falcon and the Snowman | Alex | 1985-01-25 |
| Movie | Blott on the Landscape | 1985-02-06 | |
| Movie | Thirteen at Dinner | Insp. Japp | 1985-09-19 |
| Movie | A Song for Europe | Steve Dyer | 1985-05-27 |
| Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Dino Grandi | 1985-11-24 |
| Movie | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Buller | 1984-03-30 |
| Series | Master of the Game | André d'Usseau | 1984-02-19 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | The Little Drummer Girl | Mesterbein | 1984-10-19 |
| Series | Oxbridge Blues | 1984-11-14 | |
| Series | Freud | Freud | 1984-09-14 |
| Movie | Trenchcoat | Inspector Stagnos | 1983-03-11 |
| Movie | Red Monarch | Beria | 1983-06-16 |
| Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou | 1982-02-02 |
| Movie | The Missionary | Corbett | 1982-11-02 |
| Movie | The Cause | Reger | 1981-02-03 |
| Series | Oppenheimer | Edward Teller | 1980-10-29 |
| Movie | A Tale of Two Cities | John Barsad | 1980-12-02 |
| Series | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown | 1979-03-24 |
| Series | An Audience with... | Himself | 1978-01-08 |
| Series | The Protectors | Unknown | 1972-09-29 |
| Series | Public Eye | Unknown | 1965-01-23 |