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

Mohamed Karaman

A Perfect Murder

Narrator (voice)

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Insp. Japp

Thirteen at Dinner

Rita's Dad (voice)

Flushed Away

Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

Flood

Lew Vogel

The Bank Job

Jacques Lafleur

Harry and the Hendersons

Naji Al-Hadithi

Live from Baghdad

Leo Gillette

Foolproof

Samuel Stearn

Diverted

Louis B. Mayer

RKO 281

Clopin Trouillefou

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Sunday

Corbett

The Missionary

Narrator (voice)

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Beria

Red Monarch

T.J. O'Connor

Cause Célèbre

Napoleón

Sabotage!!

Mr. Ruskin

Effie Gray

Joe

Separation

Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Victoria & Albert

Abraham Van Helsing

Dracula

Blott on the Landscape

Jonathan Gault

The Last Innocent Man

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Self

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

Dr. Benjamin Cisco

Act of God

Ruben Roberts

Cruel Train

Narrator

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Inspector Stagnos

Trenchcoat

Nagi Hassan

Executive Decision

Alex

The Falcon and the Snowman

Bill

Being Normal

Rudi Waltz

Der Fall Lucona

Bishop

To Kill a Priest

Self

Više od riječi

Vlachos

Deadly Voyage

Lady Bracknell

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

Self

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

Steve Dyer

A Song for Europe

General Hallholland

A Bear Named Winnie

Oberon

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Capt. Jason Sansky

Wing Commander

Buller

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Starring Sigmund Freud

William Shirer

Murrow

Robert Maxwell

Maxwell

Narrator

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Self - Actor

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

Leopold Bloom

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Director Stansfield

American Assassin

Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

The In-Laws

John Barsad

A Tale of Two Cities

Muller

A World Apart

Mesterbein

The Little Drummer Girl

Himself - Presenter

David Suchet on the Orient Express

Will

When the Whales Came

Narrator (voice)

Arthur et les Minimoys

Narrator

Being Poirot

Narrator

This Changed Everything

Self - Presenter

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

Joe Keller

All My Sons

James Tyrone

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Iron Eagle

Reger

The Cause

Joab

Solomon

Alfred Verloc

The Secret Agent

Self

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

The Phoenix (voice)

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Hercule Poirot

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

71

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-05-02

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

David Courtney Suchet