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