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.
126 acting credits
Acting · 126
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Professionals
1977
His Dark Materials
2019
Richard & Judy
2001
An Audience with...
1978
Q&A
2008
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Timewatch
1982
The Protectors
1972
Murder in Mind
2001
Public Eye
1965
Capitaine Marleau
2015
The Hollow Crown
2012
Flushed Away
2006
Urban Myths
2017
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
The Bank Job
2008
American Assassin
2017
A Perfect Murder
1998
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Great Expectations
2011
Henry VIII
2003
Theatre Night
1985
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Going Postal
2010
Executive Decision
1996
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Perspectives
2011
The Way We Live Now
2001
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Oppenheimer
1980
Master of the Game
1984
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
The In-Laws
2003
Press
2018
Iron Eagle
1986
Flood
2007
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Hidden
2011
Decline and Fall
2017
Moses
1996
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
Wing Commander
1999
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
The Au Pair
2025
Solomon
1997
Freud
1984
NCS: Manhunt
2002
Blott on the Landscape
1985
Effie Gray
2014
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
Live from Baghdad
2002
RKO 281
1999
Solomon
1997
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
A World Apart
1988
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
Dracula
2006
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Foolproof
2003
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
The Missionary
1982
To Kill a Priest
1988
Seesaw
1998
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
Diverted
2009
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
Red Monarch
1983
Maxwell
2007
Cruel Train
1995
When the Whales Came
1989
The Secret Agent
1992
The Story of Jesus
2011
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Murrow
1986
Victoria & Albert
2001
Deadly Voyage
1996
Separation
1990
Cause Célèbre
1987
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Sabotage!!
2000
Act of God
2009
Concorde
2017
Extinct
2005
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
Sunday
1997
Trenchcoat
1983
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
All My Sons
2011
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
Der Fall Lucona
1993
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
Being Normal
1983
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
Blott on the Landscape
1985
A Song for Europe
1985
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
More Than Words
2018
The Cause
1981
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Being Poirot
2013
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
This Changed Everything
2016
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024