David Suchet

May 02, 1946 (79 years old) in 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

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Doctor Who

The Landlord

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Play for Today

Reger

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hercule Poirot

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Self

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Tales of the Unexpected

Yves Drouard

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Timewatch

Self - Narrator (voice)

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His Dark Materials

Kaisa (voice)

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Public Eye

Martin Kulman

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Capitaine Marleau

Herbert White

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The Professionals

Krivas

Credits

The Au Pair 2025

George

★ 6.5
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet 2025

Self - Presenter

★ 8
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 2023

Self

★ NR
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story 2023

Himself

★ NR
The Goes Wrong Show 2019

Self/ Narrator

★ 7.6
His Dark Materials 2019

Kaisa (voice)

★ 7.9
Press 2018

George Emmerson

★ 6.9
More Than Words 2018

Self

★ 8
Concorde 2017

Self - Narrator

★ NR
American Assassin 2017

Director Stansfield

★ 6.4
Decline and Fall 2017

Dr. Fagan

★ 5.7
Urban Myths 2017

Salvador Dali

★ 7.4
Peter Pan Goes Wrong 2016

Narrator

★ 7.4
This Changed Everything 2016

Narrator

★ NR
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC 2016

Oberon

★ 7.5
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage 2015

Lady Bracknell

★ 9
Capitaine Marleau 2015

Herbert White

★ 5.9
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter 2015

Himself - Presenter

★ 8
Effie Gray 2014

Mr. Ruskin

★ 5.9
Long Day's Journey Into Night 2014

James Tyrone

★ NR
Being Poirot 2013

Narrator

★ 8
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet 2013

Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

★ 7.5
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul 2012

Self - Host

★ NR
Starring Sigmund Freud 2012

★ NR
The Hollow Crown 2012

Duke of York

★ 7.3
David Suchet: People I Have Shot 2012

Himself - Presenter

★ NR
Great Expectations 2011

Mr. Jaggers

★ 7.2
Hidden 2011

Sir Nigel Fountain

★ 6.5
Perspectives 2011

★ NR
The Story of Jesus 2011

Narrator

★ NR
The Jesus Storybook Bible 2011

Narrator

★ 10
All My Sons 2011

Joe Keller

★ NR
David Suchet on the Orient Express 2010

Himself - Presenter

★ 6.8
Going Postal 2010

Reacher Gilt

★ 7.1
Diverted 2009

Samuel Stearn

★ 6.8
Act of God 2009

Dr. Benjamin Cisco

★ 4.8
The Bank Job 2008

Lew Vogel

★ 6.8
Flood 2007

Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

★ 5.3
Maxwell 2007

Robert Maxwell

★ 6
Dracula 2006

Abraham Van Helsing

★ 5.6
Arthur and the Invisibles 2006

Narrator (voice)

★ 6.4
Flushed Away 2006

Rita's Dad (voice)

★ 6.3
Extinct 2005

★ NR
Doctor Who 2005

The Landlord

★ 7.5
A Bear Named Winnie 2004

General Hallholland

★ 6.5
Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets 2004

★ 6.6
Who Do You Think You Are? 2004

Self

★ 6.7
Henry VIII 2003

Thomas Wolsey

★ 6.5
Foolproof 2003

Leo Gillette

★ 6.1
The In-Laws 2003

Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

★ 5.6
Live from Baghdad 2002

Naji Al-Hadithi

★ 6.7
The Stanford Prison Experiment 2002

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
NCS: Manhunt 2002

DI John Borne

★ 5
The Way We Live Now 2001

Augustus Melmotte

★ 7.8
Victoria & Albert 2001

Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

★ 7.6
Murder in Mind 2001

Edward Palmer

★ 8.4
Sabotage!! 2000

Napoleón

★ 5.5
RKO 281 2000

Louis B. Mayer

★ 6.4
Wing Commander 1999

Capt. Jason Sansky

★ 4.8
A Perfect Murder 1998

Mohamed Karaman

★ 6.5
Seesaw 1998

Morris Price

★ NR
Solomon 1997

Joab

★ 6.6
The Phoenix and the Carpet 1997

The Phoenix

★ NR
Sunday 1997

Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

★ 5.2
Deadly Voyage 1996

Vlachos

★ 5.4
Executive Decision 1996

Nagi Hassan

★ 6.3
Cruel Train 1995

Ruben Roberts

★ 4.5
Moses 1995

Aaron

★ NR
Der Fall Lucona 1993

Rudi Waltz

★ 5
The Secret Agent 1992

Alfred Verloc

★ 8
The Trouble With Agatha Christie 1991

Self - Actor

★ 10
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship 1990

Narrator (voice)

★ 8.1
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait 1990

Self

★ NR
Separation 1990

Joe

★ 6
Nobody Here But Us Chickens 1989

★ NR
When the Whales Came 1989

Will

★ 6.4
Long Ago and Far Away 1989

★ 9
Agatha Christie's Poirot 1989

Hercule Poirot

★ 8.1
To Kill a Priest 1988

Bishop

★ 6
A World Apart 1988

Muller

★ 6.3
The Play on One 1988

Joe

★ 6
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' 1988

Leopold Bloom

★ NR
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers 1988

Leopold Bloom

★ NR
The Dame Edna Experience 1987

Self

★ 5
Cause Célèbre 1987

T.J. O'Connor

★ 6
Harry and the Hendersons 1987

Jacques Lafleur

★ 6.1
The Last Innocent Man 1987

Jonathan Gault

★ 5.1
Murrow 1986

William Shirer

★ 5
Iron Eagle 1986

Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

★ 5.6
Thirteen at Dinner 1985

Insp. Japp

★ 5.6
Theatre Night 1985

★ NR
A Song for Europe 1985

Steve Dyer

★ 3.5
Blott on the Landscape 1985

★ 8.8
The Falcon and the Snowman 1985

Alex

★ 6.4
Oxbridge Blues 1984

Colin

★ 5
The Little Drummer Girl 1984

Mesterbein

★ 5.5
Freud 1984

Freud

★ 3
Playing Shakespeare 1984

★ 10
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Buller

★ 6.4
Master of the Game 1984

André d'Usseau

★ 5.9
Reilly: Ace of Spies 1983

Inspector Tsientsin

★ 7
Being Normal 1983

Bill

★ NR
Red Monarch 1983

Beria

★ 5
Trenchcoat 1983

Inspector Stagnos

★ 5.7
The Missionary 1982

Corbett

★ 5.6
Timewatch 1982

Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 6.9
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1982

Clopin Trouillefou

★ 5.8
The Cause 1981

Reger

★ NR
A Tale of Two Cities 1980

John Barsad

★ 5.7
Oppenheimer 1980

Edward Teller

★ 6.7
Tales of the Unexpected 1979

Yves Drouard

★ 6.7
The Professionals 1977

Krivas

★ 7.4
The Protectors 1972

Detective

★ 5.6
Play for Today 1970

Reger

★ 6.3
Public Eye 1965

Martin Kulman

★ 7.8
The BAFTA Awards 1949

Self

★ 10