7.8Acting
David Suchet
- Born
- 1946-05-02
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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
132 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
The Au Pair
2025 · TV Show
George
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025 · TV Show
Self - Presenter
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024 · Movie
Himself · Creator
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023 · Movie
Self
His Dark Materials
2019 · TV Show
Kaisa (voice)
More Than Words
2018 · TV Show
Self
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018 · Movie
Self
Press
2018 · TV Show
George Emmerson
American Assassin
2017 · Movie
Director Stansfield
Concorde
2017 · TV Show
Self - Narrator
Decline and Fall
2017 · TV Show
Dr Fagan
Urban Myths
2017 · TV Show
Salvador Dali
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016 · Movie
Self (Narrator)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Movie
Oberon
This Changed Everything
2016 · Movie
Narrator
Capitaine Marleau
2015 · TV Show
Herbert White
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015 · TV Show
Self - Presenter
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015 · Movie
Lady Bracknell
Effie Gray
2014 · Movie
Mr. Ruskin
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014 · Movie
James Tyrone
Being Poirot
2013 · Movie
Self - Narrator
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013 · TV Show
Narrator
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013 · Movie
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012 · TV Show
Self - Host
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012 · Movie
Self - Presenter
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012 · Movie
Cast
The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV Show
Duke of York
All My Sons
2011 · Movie
Joe Keller
Going Postal 2in1
2011 · Movie
Reacherové pozlátko
Great Expectations
2011 · TV Show
Mr. Jaggers
Hidden
2011 · TV Show
Sir Nigel Fountain
Perspectives
2011 · TV Show
Cast
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011 · Movie
Narrator
The Story of Jesus
2011 · TV Show
Narrator
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010 · Movie
Himself - Presenter
Going Postal
2010 · TV Show
Reacher Gilt
Act of God
2009 · Movie
Dr. Benjamin Cisco
Diverted
2009 · Movie
Samuel Stearn
Q&A
2008 · TV Show
Self - Panellist
The Bank Job
2008 · Movie
Lew Vogel
Flood
2007 · Movie
DPM Campbell
Maxwell
2007 · Movie
Robert Maxwell
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Dracula
2006 · Movie
Abraham Van Helsing
Flushed Away
2006 · Movie
Rita's Dad (voice)
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
Self
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
The Landlord
Extinct
2005 · TV Show
Cast
A Bear Named Winnie
2004 · Movie
General Hallholland
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
2004 · Movie
Narrator
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004 · TV Show
Cast
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004 · Movie
The Phoenix (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV Show
Self
Foolproof
2003 · Movie
Leo Gillette
Henry VIII
2003 · TV Show
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
The In-Laws
2003 · Movie
Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
Live from Baghdad
2002 · Movie
Naji Al-Hadithi
NCS: Manhunt
2002 · TV Show
DI John Borne
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Murder in Mind
2001 · TV Show
Edward Palmer
Richard & Judy
2001 · TV Show
Self
The Way We Live Now
2001 · TV Show
Augustus Melmotte
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Movie
Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
Sabotage!!
2000 · Movie
Napoleón
RKO 281
1999 · Movie
Louis B. Mayer
Wing Commander
1999 · Movie
Capt. Jason Sansky
A Perfect Murder
1998 · Movie
Mohamed Karaman
Seesaw
1998 · TV Show
Morris Price
Solomon
1997 · Movie
Joab
Solomon
1997 · TV Show
Joab
Sunday
1997 · Movie
Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997 · TV Show
The Phoenix (voice)
Deadly Voyage
1996 · Movie
Vlachos
Executive Decision
1996 · Movie
Nagi Hassan
Moses
1996 · TV Show
Aaron
Cruel Train
1995 · Movie
Ruben Roberts
Der Fall Lucona
1993 · Movie
Rudi Waltz
The Secret Agent
1992 · Movie
Alfred Verloc
The Secret Agent
1992 · TV Show
Alfred Verloc
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991 · Movie
Self - Actor
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990 · Movie
Self
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990 · Movie
Shakespeare
Separation
1990 · Movie
Joe
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
4 Play
1989 · TV Show
Carver
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
Hercule Poirot
Long Ago and Far Away
1989 · TV Show
Cast
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989 · Movie
Cast
When the Whales Came
1989 · Movie
Will
A World Apart
1988 · Movie
Muller
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988 · Movie
Leopold Bloom
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · TV Show
Leopold Bloom
The Play on One
1988 · TV Show
Joe
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Movie
Bishop
Cause Célèbre
1987 · Movie
T.J. O'Connor
Harry and the Hendersons
1987 · Movie
Jacques Lafleur
The Dame Edna Experience
1987 · TV Show
Self
The Last Innocent Man
1987 · Movie
Jonathan Gault
Iron Eagle
1986 · Movie
Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
Murrow
1986 · Movie
William Shirer
A Song for Europe
1985 · Movie
Steve Dyer
Blott on the Landscape
1985 · Movie
Cast
Blott on the Landscape
1985 · TV Show
Blott
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985 · TV Show
Dino Grandi
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
Vlachos
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985 · Movie
Alex
Theatre Night
1985 · TV Show
William Shakespeare
Thirteen at Dinner
1985 · Movie
Insp. Japp
Freud
1984 · TV Show
Sigmund Freud
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Movie
Buller
Master of the Game
1984 · TV Show
André d'Usseau
Oxbridge Blues
1984 · TV Show
Colin
Playing Shakespeare
1984 · TV Show
Cast
The Little Drummer Girl
1984 · Movie
Mesterbein
Being Normal
1983 · Movie
Bill
Red Monarch
1983 · Movie
Beria
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · TV Show
Inspector Tsientsin
Trenchcoat
1983 · Movie
Inspector Stagnos
American Playhouse
1982 · TV Show
Edward Teller · Joe
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 · Movie
Clopin Trouillefou
The Missionary
1982 · Movie
Corbett
Timewatch
1982 · TV Show
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Cause
1981 · Movie
Reger
A Tale of Two Cities
1980 · Movie
John Barsad
Oppenheimer
1980 · TV Show
Edward Teller
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
Yves Drouard
An Audience with...
1978 · TV Show
Self
The Professionals
1977 · TV Show
Krivas
The Protectors
1972 · TV Show
Detective · Leo
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
Reger
Public Eye
1965 · TV Show
Martin Kulman
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · TV Show
Self