David Suchet
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 2, 1946 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Credits
- 132
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
Flushed Away
2006Movie
Rita's Dad (voice)
Doctor Who
2005TV
The Landlord
American Assassin
2017Movie
Director Stansfield
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Bank Job
2008Movie
Lew Vogel
His Dark Materials
2019TV
Kaisa (voice)
Filmography
The Au Pair
2025TV
George
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025TV
Self - Presenter
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024Movie
Himself
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023Movie
Self
His Dark Materials
2019TV
Kaisa (voice)
Press
2018TV
George Emmerson
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018Movie
Self
More Than Words
2018TV
Self
Concorde
2017TV
Self - Narrator
American Assassin
2017Movie
Director Stansfield
Decline and Fall
2017TV
Dr Fagan
Urban Myths
2017TV
Salvador Dali
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016Movie
Self (Narrator)
This Changed Everything
2016Movie
Narrator
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016Movie
Oberon
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015Movie
Lady Bracknell
Capitaine Marleau
2015TV
Herbert White
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015TV
Self - Presenter
Effie Gray
2014Movie
Mr. Ruskin
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014Movie
James Tyrone
Being Poirot
2013Movie
Self - Narrator
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013TV
Narrator
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013Movie
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012TV
Self - Host
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012Movie
The Hollow Crown
2012TV
Duke of York
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012Movie
Self - Presenter
Great Expectations
2011TV
Mr. Jaggers
Hidden
2011TV
Sir Nigel Fountain
Going Postal 2in1
2011Movie
Reacherové pozlátko
Perspectives
2011TV
The Story of Jesus
2011TV
Narrator
All My Sons
2011Movie
Joe Keller
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011Movie
Narrator
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010Movie
Himself - Presenter
Going Postal
2010TV
Reacher Gilt
Diverted
2009Movie
Samuel Stearn
Act of God
2009Movie
Dr. Benjamin Cisco
Q&A
2008TV
Self - Panellist
The Bank Job
2008Movie
Lew Vogel
Flood
2007Movie
DPM Campbell
Maxwell
2007Movie
Robert Maxwell
Dracula
2006Movie
Abraham Van Helsing
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
Flushed Away
2006Movie
Rita's Dad (voice)
The One Show
2006TV
Self
Extinct
2005TV
Doctor Who
2005TV
The Landlord
A Bear Named Winnie
2004Movie
General Hallholland
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
2004Movie
Narrator
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004TV
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004TV
Self
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004Movie
The Phoenix (voice)
Henry VIII
2003TV
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Foolproof
2003Movie
Leo Gillette
The In-Laws
2003Movie
Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
Live from Baghdad
2002Movie
Naji Al-Hadithi
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
NCS: Manhunt
2002TV
DI John Borne
Richard & Judy
2001TV
Self
The Way We Live Now
2001TV
Augustus Melmotte
Victoria & Albert
2001Movie
Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
Murder in Mind
2001TV
Edward Palmer
Sabotage!!
2000Movie
Napoleón
RKO 281
1999Movie
Louis B. Mayer
Wing Commander
1999Movie
Capt. Jason Sansky
A Perfect Murder
1998Movie
Mohamed Karaman
Seesaw
1998TV
Morris Price
Solomon
1997Movie
Joab
Solomon
1997TV
Joab
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997TV
The Phoenix (voice)
Sunday
1997Movie
Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
Deadly Voyage
1996Movie
Vlachos
Moses
1996TV
Aaron
Executive Decision
1996Movie
Nagi Hassan
Cruel Train
1995Movie
Ruben Roberts
Der Fall Lucona
1993Movie
Rudi Waltz
The Secret Agent
1992Movie
Alfred Verloc
The Secret Agent
1992TV
Alfred Verloc
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991Movie
Self - Actor
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990Movie
Self
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990Movie
Shakespeare
Separation
1990Movie
Joe
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989Movie
4 Play
1989TV
Carver
When the Whales Came
1989Movie
Will
Long Ago and Far Away
1989TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Hercule Poirot
To Kill a Priest
1988Movie
Bishop
A World Apart
1988Movie
Muller
The Play on One
1988TV
Joe
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988Movie
Leopold Bloom
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988TV
Leopold Bloom
The Dame Edna Experience
1987TV
Self
Cause Célèbre
1987Movie
T.J. O'Connor
Harry and the Hendersons
1987Movie
Jacques Lafleur
The Last Innocent Man
1987Movie
Jonathan Gault
Murrow
1986Movie
William Shirer
Iron Eagle
1986Movie
Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985TV
Dino Grandi
Thirteen at Dinner
1985Movie
Insp. Japp
Theatre Night
1985TV
William Shakespeare
A Song for Europe
1985Movie
Steve Dyer
Blott on the Landscape
1985Movie
Blott on the Landscape
1985TV
Blott
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985Movie
Alex
Screen Two
1985TV
Vlachos
Oxbridge Blues
1984TV
Colin
The Little Drummer Girl
1984Movie
Mesterbein
Freud
1984TV
Sigmund Freud
Playing Shakespeare
1984TV
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984Movie
Buller
Master of the Game
1984TV
André d'Usseau
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983TV
Inspector Tsientsin
Being Normal
1983Movie
Bill
Red Monarch
1983Movie
Beria
Trenchcoat
1983Movie
Inspector Stagnos
The Missionary
1982Movie
Corbett
Timewatch
1982TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982Movie
Clopin Trouillefou
American Playhouse
1982TV
Edward Teller, Joe
The Cause
1981Movie
Reger
A Tale of Two Cities
1980Movie
John Barsad
Oppenheimer
1980TV
Edward Teller
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Yves Drouard
An Audience with...
1978TV
Self
The Professionals
1977TV
Krivas
The Protectors
1972TV
Detective, Leo
Play for Today
1970TV
Reger
Public Eye
1965TV
Martin Kulman
The BAFTA Awards
1949TV
Self