
David Suchet
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography

Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
as Self - Presenter

The Au Pair
2025
as George

Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024
as Himself

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
as Self

His Dark Materials
2019
as Kaisa (voice)

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
as Self

Press
2018
as George Emmerson

More Than Words
2018
as Self

American Assassin
2017
as Director Stansfield

Concorde
2017
as Self - Narrator

Urban Myths
2017
as Salvador Dali

Decline and Fall
2017
as Dr Fagan

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Oberon

Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
as Self (Narrator)

This Changed Everything
2016
as Narrator

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
as Lady Bracknell

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
as Self - Presenter

Capitaine Marleau
2015
as Herbert White

Effie Gray
2014
as Mr. Ruskin

Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
as James Tyrone

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

Being Poirot
2013
as Self - Narrator

The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
as Narrator
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012

David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
as Self - Presenter

David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012
as Self - Host

The Hollow Crown
2012
as Duke of York

The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
as Narrator

All My Sons
2011
as Joe Keller

Going Postal 2in1
2011
as Reacherové pozlátko

Great Expectations
2011
as Mr. Jaggers

Hidden
2011
as Sir Nigel Fountain

Perspectives
2011

The Story of Jesus
2011
as Narrator

David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
as Himself - Presenter

Going Postal
2010
as Reacher Gilt

Diverted
2009
as Samuel Stearn

Act of God
2009
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

The Bank Job
2008
as Lew Vogel

Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist

Flood
2007
as DPM Campbell

Maxwell
2007
as Robert Maxwell

Flushed Away
2006
as Rita's Dad (voice)

Dracula
2006
as Abraham Van Helsing

Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
as Narrator (voice)

The One Show
2006
as Self
Extinct
2005

Doctor Who
2005
as The Landlord

A Bear Named Winnie
2004
as General Hallholland

The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
as The Phoenix (voice)

Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
2004
as Narrator

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self

Foolproof
2003
as Leo Gillette

The In-Laws
2003
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

Henry VIII
2003
as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
as Narrator (voice)

Live from Baghdad
2002
as Naji Al-Hadithi

NCS: Manhunt
2002
as DI John Borne

Victoria & Albert
2001
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

Richard & Judy
2001
as Self

The Way We Live Now
2001
as Augustus Melmotte

Murder in Mind
2001
as Edward Palmer

Sabotage!!
2000
as Napoleón

RKO 281
1999
as Louis B. Mayer

Wing Commander
1999
as Capt. Jason Sansky

A Perfect Murder
1998
as Mohamed Karaman

Seesaw
1998
as Morris Price

Sunday
1997
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

Solomon
1997
as Joab

Solomon
1997
as Joab

The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
as The Phoenix (voice)

Executive Decision
1996
as Nagi Hassan

Deadly Voyage
1996
as Vlachos

Moses
1996
as Aaron

Cruel Train
1995
as Ruben Roberts

Der Fall Lucona
1993
as Rudi Waltz

The Secret Agent
1992
as Alfred Verloc
The Secret Agent
1992
as Alfred Verloc

The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Actor

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Separation
1990
as Joe

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
as Self
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
as Shakespeare
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989

When the Whales Came
1989
as Will

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Hercule Poirot
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
4 Play
1989
as Carver

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Bishop
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
as Leopold Bloom

A World Apart
1988
as Muller

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Leopold Bloom

The Play on One
1988
as Joe

Harry and the Hendersons
1987
as Jacques Lafleur

Cause Célèbre
1987
as T.J. O'Connor

The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Jonathan Gault

The Dame Edna Experience
1987
as Self

Murrow
1986
as William Shirer

Iron Eagle
1986
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

Thirteen at Dinner
1985
as Insp. Japp

Blott on the Landscape
1985

The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Alex

A Song for Europe
1985
as Steve Dyer

Blott on the Landscape
1985
as Blott

Theatre Night
1985

Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
as Dino Grandi

Screen Two
1985
as Vlachos

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Buller

The Little Drummer Girl
1984
as Mesterbein

Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Colin

Freud
1984
as Sigmund Freud

Master of the Game
1984
as André d'Usseau

Playing Shakespeare
1984

Red Monarch
1983
as Beria

Trenchcoat
1983
as Inspector Stagnos
Being Normal
1983
as Bill

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
as Inspector Tsientsin

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Clopin Trouillefou

The Missionary
1982
as Corbett

Timewatch
1982
as Self - Narrator (voice)

American Playhouse
1982
as Edward Teller

American Playhouse
1982
as Joe

The Cause
1981
as Reger

A Tale of Two Cities
1980
as John Barsad

Oppenheimer
1980
as Edward Teller

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Yves Drouard

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

The Professionals
1977
as Krivas

The Protectors
1972
as Detective

The Protectors
1972
as Leo

Play for Today
1970
as Reger

Public Eye
1965
as Martin Kulman

The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Self