Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 2, 1946
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir | Self |
| 2023 | Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story | Himself |
| 2018 | More Than Words | Self |
| 2017 | American Assassin | Director Stansfield |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Oberon |
| 2016 | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Narrator |
| 2016 | This Changed Everything | Narrator |
| 2015 | The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage | Lady Bracknell |
| 2014 | Effie Gray | Mr. Ruskin |
| 2014 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone |
| 2013 | The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet | Self - Host / Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Being Poirot | Narrator |
| 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | |
| 2012 | David Suchet: People I Have Shot | Himself - Presenter |
| 2011 | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator |
| 2011 | All My Sons | Joe Keller |
| 2010 | David Suchet on the Orient Express | Himself - Presenter |
| 2009 | Diverted | Samuel Stearn |
| 2009 | Act of God | Dr. Benjamin Cisco |
| 2008 | The Bank Job | Lew Vogel |
| 2007 | Flood | Deputy Prime Minister Campbell |
| 2007 | Maxwell | Robert Maxwell |
| 2006 | Flushed Away | Rita's Dad (voice) |
| 2006 | Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing |
| 2006 | Arthur and the Invisibles | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | A Bear Named Winnie | General Hallholland |
| 2004 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix (voice) |
| 2003 | Foolproof | Leo Gillette |
| 2003 | The In-Laws | Jean-Pierre Thibodoux |
| 2002 | The Stanford Prison Experiment | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Live from Baghdad | Naji Al-Hadithi |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD |
| 2000 | RKO 281 | Louis B. Mayer |
| 2000 | Sabotage!! | Napoleón |
| 1999 | Wing Commander | Capt. Jason Sansky |
| 1998 | A Perfect Murder | Mohamed Karaman |
| 1997 | Sunday | Oliver / Matthew Delacorta |
| 1997 | Solomon | Joab |
| 1996 | Executive Decision | Nagi Hassan |
| 1996 | Deadly Voyage | Vlachos |
| 1995 | Cruel Train | Ruben Roberts |
| 1993 | Der Fall Lucona | Rudi Waltz |
| 1992 | The Secret Agent | Alfred Verloc |
| 1991 | The Trouble With Agatha Christie | Self - Actor |
| 1990 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | Separation | Joe |
| 1990 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | Self |
| 1989 | Nobody Here But Us Chickens | |
| 1989 | When the Whales Came | Will |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Bishop |
| 1988 | James Joyce's 'Ulysses' | Leopold Bloom |
| 1988 | A World Apart | Muller |
| 1987 | Harry and the Hendersons | Jacques Lafleur |
| 1987 | Cause Célèbre | T.J. O'Connor |
| 1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Jonathan Gault |
| 1986 | Murrow | William Shirer |
| 1986 | Iron Eagle | Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh |
| 1985 | Thirteen at Dinner | Insp. Japp |
| 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | Alex |
| 1985 | A Song for Europe | Steve Dyer |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Buller |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | Mesterbein |
| 1983 | Red Monarch | Beria |
| 1983 | Trenchcoat | Inspector Stagnos |
| 1983 | Being Normal | Bill |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou |
| 1982 | The Missionary | Corbett |
| 1981 | The Cause | Reger |
| 1980 | A Tale of Two Cities | John Barsad |