David Suchet
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1946-05-02
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Popularity: 1.6
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 Filmography
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Screen Two
1985
Richard & Judy
2001
His Dark Materials
2019
The Professionals
1977
Q&A
2008
An Audience with...
1978
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Hollow Crown
2012
Public Eye
1965
The Protectors
1972
American Assassin
2017
Flushed Away
2006
Murder in Mind
2001
Timewatch
1982
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Capitaine Marleau
2015
Urban Myths
2017
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
The Bank Job
2008
Great Expectations
2011
The Play on One
1988
A Perfect Murder
1998
Executive Decision
1996
Master of the Game
1984
Henry VIII
2003
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Iron Eagle
1986
Going Postal
2010
Perspectives
2011
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Oppenheimer
1980
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Press
2018
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Hidden
2011
The Way We Live Now
2001
Flood
2007
Theatre Night
1985
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Decline and Fall
2017
Foolproof
2003
Moses
1996
Wing Commander
1999
The In-Laws
2003
RKO 281
1999
Solomon
1997
Freud
1984
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
NCS: Manhunt
2002
Effie Gray
2014
The Au Pair
2025
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Solomon
1997
Live from Baghdad
2002
Diverted
2009
Seesaw
1998No Photo
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
A World Apart
1988
Dracula
2006
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
The Missionary
1982
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
Red Monarch
1983
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
Deadly Voyage
1996
To Kill a Priest
1988
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Sunday
1997
Victoria & Albert
2001No Photo
All My Sons
2011
Maxwell
2007
Cruel Train
1995
Act of God
2009
Cause Célèbre
1987No Photo
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012No Photo
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
Der Fall Lucona
1993
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
The Story of Jesus
2011
Murrow
1986
The Secret Agent
1992
Concorde
2017
When the Whales Came
1989
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018No Photo
Extinct
2005
Trenchcoat
1983
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990No Photo
Being Normal
1983
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
Sabotage!!
2000
The Cause
1981No Photo
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002No Photo
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010No Photo
A Song for Europe
1985No Photo
Separation
1990
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
Being Poirot
2013
More Than Words
2018
This Changed Everything
2016
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024