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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-05-02 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

David Suchet

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

Acting

2025

The Au Pair as George

2023

2019

The Goes Wrong Show as Self/ Narrator
His Dark Materials as Kaisa (voice)

2018

Press as George Emmerson

2017

American Assassin as Director Stansfield
Concorde as Self - Narrator
Urban Myths as Salvador Dali
Decline and Fall as Dr. Fagan

2016

2015

Capitaine Marleau as Herbert White

2014

Effie Gray as Mr. Ruskin

2013

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Being Poirot as Narrator

2012

David Suchet: People I Have Shot as Himself - Presenter
The Hollow Crown as Duke of York

2011

All My Sons as Joe Keller
Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers
Hidden as Sir Nigel Fountain
The Story of Jesus as Narrator

2010

David Suchet on the Orient Express as Himself - Presenter
Going Postal as Reacher Gilt

2009

Diverted as Samuel Stearn
Act of God as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

2008

The Bank Job as Lew Vogel
Q&A as Self - Panellist

2007

Flood as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
Maxwell as Robert Maxwell

2006

Flushed Away as Rita's Dad (voice)
Dracula as Abraham Van Helsing
Arthur and the Invisibles as Narrator (voice)
The One Show as Self

2005

Doctor Who as The Landlord

2004

A Bear Named Winnie as General Hallholland

2003

Foolproof as Leo Gillette
The In-Laws as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
Henry VIII as Thomas Wolsey

2002

The Stanford Prison Experiment as Narrator (voice)
Live from Baghdad as Naji Al-Hadithi
NCS: Manhunt as DI John Borne

2001

Victoria & Albert as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
The Way We Live Now as Augustus Melmotte
Murder in Mind as Edward Palmer

2000

RKO 281 as Louis B. Mayer
Sabotage!! as Napoleón

1999

Wing Commander as Capt. Jason Sansky

1998

A Perfect Murder as Mohamed Karaman
Seesaw as Morris Price

1997

Sunday as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
Solomon as Joab
Solomon as Joab

1996

Executive Decision as Nagi Hassan
Deadly Voyage as Vlachos
Moses as Aaron

1995

Cruel Train as Ruben Roberts
Moses as Aaron

1993

Der Fall Lucona as Rudi Waltz

1992

The Secret Agent as Alfred Verloc

1991

1990

Separation as Joe

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Hercule Poirot

1988

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Leopold Bloom
A World Apart as Muller

1987

Harry and the Hendersons as Jacques Lafleur
Cause Célèbre as T.J. O'Connor
The Last Innocent Man as Jonathan Gault

1986

Murrow as William Shirer
Iron Eagle as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

1985

Thirteen at Dinner as Insp. Japp
A Song for Europe as Steve Dyer

1984

Freud as Freud
Master of the Game as André d'Usseau

1983

Red Monarch as Beria
Trenchcoat as Inspector Stagnos
Being Normal as Bill
Reilly: Ace of Spies as Inspector Tsientsin

1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Clopin Trouillefou
The Missionary as Corbett
Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)

1981

The Cause as Reger

1980

A Tale of Two Cities as John Barsad
Oppenheimer as Edward Teller

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Yves Drouard

1978

1977

1972

The Protectors as Detective

1970

1965

Public Eye as Martin Kulman

1949

Production

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Associate Producer