David Suchet
Acting
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.
As actor 131
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
American Playhouse
1982
Screen Two
1985
The One Show
2006
Richard & Judy
2001
His Dark Materials
2019
The Professionals
1977
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Q&A
2008
Timewatch
1982
Flushed Away
2006
An Audience with...
1978
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Bank Job
2008
The Hollow Crown
2012
The BAFTA Awards
1949
The Protectors
1972
American Assassin
2017
Capitaine Marleau
2015
Freud
1984
Great Expectations
2011
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Public Eye
1965
The Play on One
1988
A Perfect Murder
1998
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
Executive Decision
1996
Urban Myths
2017
Murder in Mind
2001
Iron Eagle
1986
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Going Postal
2010
Perspectives
2011
Press
2018
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
The In-Laws
2003
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
The Way We Live Now
2001
Master of the Game
1984
4 Play
1989
Oppenheimer
1980
Henry VIII
2003
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Oxbridge Blues
1984
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
Wing Commander
1999
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Effie Gray
2014
Flood
2007
RKO 281
1999
Foolproof
2003
Live from Baghdad
2002
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Theatre Night
1985
Hidden
2011
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Moses
1996
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
Solomon
1997
The Au Pair
2025
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
The Missionary
1982
Going Postal 2in1
2011
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Decline and Fall
2017
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
Deadly Voyage
1996
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
NCS: Manhunt
2002
Trenchcoat
1983
Cause Célèbre
1987
A World Apart
1988
Dracula
2006
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
Red Monarch
1983
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
Solomon
1997
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
Diverted
2009
To Kill a Priest
1988
Cruel Train
1995
The Story of Jesus
2011
Blott on the Landscape
1985
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
Being Poirot
2013
Murrow
1986
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
The Secret Agent
1992
All My Sons
2011
Being Normal
1983
Victoria & Albert
2001
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Act of God
2009
Extinct
2005
Der Fall Lucona
1993
Concorde
2017
Maxwell
2007
Sunday
1997
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
When the Whales Came
1989
The Secret Agent
1992
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
Seesaw
1998
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
More Than Words
2018
A Song for Europe
1985
Separation
1990
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Sabotage!!
2000
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Cause
1981
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024
This Changed Everything
2016
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011