David Suchet
Born May 2, 1946 · London, England, UK
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
The Au Pair
2025
His Dark Materials
2019
Press
2018
Urban Myths
2017
American Assassin
2017
Decline and Fall
2017
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
This Changed Everything
2016
Capitaine Marleau
2015
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
Effie Gray
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
Being Poirot
2013
The Hollow Crown
2012
Great Expectations
2011
Perspectives
2011
Hidden
2011
The Story of Jesus
2011
Going Postal
2010
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
Diverted
2009
Act of God
2009
The Bank Job
2008
Flood
2007
Maxwell
2007
Flushed Away
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
Dracula
2006
Doctor Who
2005
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Henry VIII
2003
The In-Laws
2003
Foolproof
2003
NCS: Manhunt
2002
Live from Baghdad
2002
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
Murder in Mind
2001
The Way We Live Now
2001
Victoria & Albert
2001
Wing Commander
1999
RKO 281
1999
A Perfect Murder
1998
Seesaw
1998
Solomon
1997
Sunday
1997
Executive Decision
1996
Moses
1996
Deadly Voyage
1996
Cruel Train
1995
Der Fall Lucona
1993
The Secret Agent
1992
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
When the Whales Came
1989
The Play on One
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
To Kill a Priest
1988
A World Apart
1988
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Cause Célèbre
1987
Iron Eagle
1986
Murrow
1986
Screen Two
1985
Theatre Night
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Blott on the Landscape
1985
A Song for Europe
1985
Master of the Game
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Freud
1984
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Trenchcoat
1983
Red Monarch
1983
American Playhouse
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
The Missionary
1982
The Cause
1981
Oppenheimer
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Professionals
1977
The Protectors
1972
Play for Today
1970
Public Eye
1965