David Suchet

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.

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Known For

Doctor Who

2005 • as The Landlord

The One Show

2006 • as Self

Richard & Judy

2001 • as Self

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 • as Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 • as Self

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 • Associate Producer

Filmography

2025

Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 3/8/2025

The Au Pair

as George

TV - Released: 3/10/2025

2023

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

as Self

Movie - Released: 12/12/2023

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

as Himself

Movie - Released: 4/9/2023

2019

The Goes Wrong Show

as Self/ Narrator

TV - Released: 12/23/2019

His Dark Materials

as Kaisa (voice)

TV - Released: 11/3/2019

2018

More Than Words

as Self

Movie - Released: 1/29/2018

Press

as George Emmerson

TV - Released: 9/6/2018

2017

American Assassin

as Director Stansfield

Movie - Released: 9/14/2017

Concorde

as Self - Narrator

TV - Released: 12/4/2017

Urban Myths

as Salvador Dali

TV - Released: 1/19/2017

Decline and Fall

as Dr. Fagan

TV - Released: 3/31/2017

2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

as Oberon

Movie - Released: 4/23/2016

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 12/31/2016

This Changed Everything

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 10/3/2016

2015

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

as Lady Bracknell

Movie - Released: 10/8/2015

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter

as Himself - Presenter

TV - Released: 4/3/2015

Capitaine Marleau

as Herbert White

TV - Released: 9/15/2015

2014

Effie Gray

as Mr. Ruskin

Movie - Released: 3/8/2014

Long Day's Journey Into Night

as James Tyrone

Movie - Released: 1/1/2014

2013

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 3/17/2013

Being Poirot

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 11/13/2013

The Jesus Storybook Bible

as Narrator

TV - Released: 4/23/2013

2012

Movie

Starring Sigmund Freud

Movie - Released: 11/1/2012

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

as Himself - Presenter

Movie - Released: 3/25/2012

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul

as Self - Host

TV - Released: 12/23/2012

The Hollow Crown

as Duke of York

TV - Released: 6/30/2012

2011

The Jesus Storybook Bible

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 2/1/2011

All My Sons

as Joe Keller

Movie - Released: 1/1/2011

Great Expectations

as Mr. Jaggers

TV - Released: 12/27/2011

Hidden

as Sir Nigel Fountain

TV - Released: 10/6/2011

Perspectives

TV - Released: 4/24/2011

The Story of Jesus

as Narrator

TV - Released: 4/22/2011

2010

David Suchet on the Orient Express

as Himself - Presenter

Movie - Released: 7/7/2010

Going Postal

as Reacher Gilt

TV - Released: 5/30/2010

2009

Diverted

as Samuel Stearn

Movie - Released: 3/8/2009

Act of God

as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

Movie - Released: 1/1/2009

2008

The Bank Job

as Lew Vogel

Movie - Released: 2/28/2008

Q&A

as Self - Panellist

TV - Released: 5/22/2008

2007

Flood

as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

Movie - Released: 8/24/2007

Maxwell

as Robert Maxwell

Movie - Released: 5/4/2007

2006

Flushed Away

as Rita's Dad (voice)

Movie - Released: 10/22/2006

Dracula

as Abraham Van Helsing

Movie - Released: 12/28/2006

Arthur and the Invisibles

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 12/13/2006

The One Show

as Self

TV - Released: 8/14/2006

2005

Extinct

TV - Released: 12/9/2005

Doctor Who

as The Landlord

TV - Released: 3/26/2005

2004

A Bear Named Winnie

as General Hallholland

Movie - Released: 12/12/2004

Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets

TV - Released: 11/9/2004

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

TV - Released: 10/12/2004

2003

Foolproof

as Leo Gillette

Movie - Released: 10/3/2003

The In-Laws

as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

Movie - Released: 5/23/2003

Henry VIII

as Thomas Wolsey

TV - Released: 10/12/2003

2002

The Stanford Prison Experiment

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 5/11/2002

Live from Baghdad

as Naji Al-Hadithi

Movie - Released: 12/7/2002

NCS: Manhunt

as DI John Borne

TV - Released: 3/4/2002

2001

Victoria & Albert

as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Movie - Released: 8/26/2001

Richard & Judy

as Self

TV - Released: 11/26/2001

The Way We Live Now

as Augustus Melmotte

TV - Released: 11/11/2001

Murder in Mind

as Edward Palmer

TV - Released: 4/22/2001

2000

RKO 281

as Louis B. Mayer

Movie - Released: 4/7/2000

Sabotage!!

as Napoleón

Movie - Released: 10/14/2000

1999

Wing Commander

as Capt. Jason Sansky

Movie - Released: 3/11/1999

1998

A Perfect Murder

as Mohamed Karaman

Movie - Released: 6/5/1998

Seesaw

as Morris Price

TV - Released: 3/12/1998

1997

Sunday

as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Movie - Released: 5/1/1997

Solomon

as Joab

Movie - Released: 12/15/1997

The Phoenix and the Carpet

as The Phoenix

TV - Released: 11/16/1997

Solomon

as Joab

TV - Released: 12/15/1997

1996

Executive Decision

as Nagi Hassan

Movie - Released: 3/15/1996

Deadly Voyage

as Vlachos

Movie - Released: 6/14/1996

Moses

as Aaron

TV - Released: 4/7/1996

1995

Cruel Train

as Ruben Roberts

Movie - Released: 12/22/1995

Moses

as Aaron

Movie - Released: 12/18/1995

1993

Der Fall Lucona

as Rudi Waltz

Movie - Released: 6/10/1993

1992

The Secret Agent

as Alfred Verloc

Movie - Released: 10/28/1992

1991

Movie

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

as Self - Actor

Movie - Released: 1/1/1991

1990

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 9/28/1990

Movie

Separation

as Joe

Movie - Released: 6/27/1990

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

as Self

Movie - Released: 9/20/1990

1989

Movie

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Movie - Released: 11/25/1989

When the Whales Came

as Will

Movie - Released: 3/28/1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Hercule Poirot

TV - Released: 1/8/1989

Long Ago and Far Away

TV - Released: 2/11/1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Self

TV - Released: 1/8/1989

1988

To Kill a Priest

as Bishop

Movie - Released: 9/7/1988

Movie

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

as Leopold Bloom

Movie - Released: 1/10/1988

A World Apart

as Muller

Movie - Released: 6/17/1988

The Play on One

as Joe

TV - Released: 1/19/1988

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

as Leopold Bloom

TV - Released: 1/10/1988

1987

Harry and the Hendersons

as Jacques Lafleur

Movie - Released: 6/5/1987

Cause Célèbre

as T.J. O'Connor

Movie - Released: 8/23/1987

The Last Innocent Man

as Jonathan Gault

Movie - Released: 4/19/1987

The Dame Edna Experience

as Self

TV - Released: 9/12/1987

1986

Murrow

as William Shirer

Movie - Released: 1/19/1986

Iron Eagle

as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Movie - Released: 1/17/1986

1985

Thirteen at Dinner

as Insp. Japp

Movie - Released: 9/19/1985

Blott on the Landscape

Movie - Released: 2/6/1985

The Falcon and the Snowman

as Alex

Movie - Released: 1/25/1985

Movie

A Song for Europe

as Steve Dyer

Movie - Released: 5/27/1985

Blott on the Landscape

TV - Released: 2/6/1985

Theatre Night

TV - Released: 9/15/1985

1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

as Buller

Movie - Released: 3/30/1984

The Little Drummer Girl

as Mesterbein

Movie - Released: 10/19/1984

Oxbridge Blues

as Colin

TV - Released: 11/14/1984

Freud

as Freud

TV - Released: 9/14/1984

Master of the Game

as André d'Usseau

TV - Released: 2/19/1984

Playing Shakespeare

TV - Released: 7/29/1984

1983

Red Monarch

as Beria

Movie - Released: 6/16/1983

Trenchcoat

as Inspector Stagnos

Movie - Released: 3/11/1983

Movie

Being Normal

as Bill

Movie - Released: 7/27/1983

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Inspector Tsientsin

TV - Released: 9/5/1983

1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Clopin Trouillefou

Movie - Released: 2/2/1982

The Missionary

as Corbett

Movie - Released: 11/2/1982

Timewatch

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV - Released: 9/29/1982

1981

The Cause

as Reger

Movie - Released: 2/3/1981

1980

A Tale of Two Cities

as John Barsad

Movie - Released: 12/2/1980

Oppenheimer

as Edward Teller

TV - Released: 10/29/1980

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

as Yves Drouard

TV - Released: 3/24/1979

1978

An Audience with...

as Self

TV - Released: 1/8/1978

1977

The Professionals

as Krivas

TV - Released: 12/30/1977

1972

The Protectors

as Detective

TV - Released: 9/29/1972

The Protectors

as Leo

TV - Released: 9/29/1972

1970

Play for Today

as Reger

TV - Released: 10/15/1970

1965

Public Eye

as Martin Kulman

TV - Released: 1/23/1965

1949

The BAFTA Awards

as Self

TV - Released: 5/29/1949