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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Harry and the Hendersons
Flushed Away
Arthur and the Invisibles
American Assassin
The Bank Job
Executive Decision
A Perfect Murder
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Effie Gray
The Falcon and the Snowman
Iron Eagle
Flood
The In-Laws
The Little Drummer Girl
Thirteen at Dinner
Wing Commander
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Solomon
A Tale of Two Cities
Foolproof
The Missionary
A World Apart
RKO 281
A Bear Named Winnie
The Last Innocent Man
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Live from Baghdad
To Kill a Priest
The Phoenix and the Carpet
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
Trenchcoat
Deadly Voyage
Victoria & Albert
When the Whales Came
Cause Célèbre
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Being Poirot
Red Monarch
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Dracula
The Jesus Storybook Bible
The Secret Agent
Der Fall Lucona
Sabotage!!
Blott on the Landscape
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Diverted
This Changed Everything
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
TV Shows
Richard & Judy
Screen Two
Tales of the Unexpected
Who Do You Think You Are?
American Playhouse
His Dark Materials
Q&A
The Professionals
Timewatch
An Audience with...
The BAFTA Awards
Public Eye
The Protectors
Capitaine Marleau
The Hollow Crown
Murder in Mind
The Play on One
Urban Myths
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Great Expectations
Perspectives
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Going Postal
Master of the Game
Theatre Night
Henry VIII
The Dame Edna Experience
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
Press
Playing Shakespeare
The Jesus Storybook Bible
Oxbridge Blues
Mussolini: The Untold Story
The Way We Live Now
The Au Pair
Oppenheimer
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
Moses
Freud
Decline and Fall
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
NCS: Manhunt
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
Hidden
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Blott on the Landscape
Solomon
Seesaw
More Than Words
The Story of Jesus
Concorde
