Acting

David Suchet

Born 1946-05-02 · London, England, UK

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.

Credits

Newest first

The Au Pair
as George
2025
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
as Self - Presenter
2025
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
as Himself
2024
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
Creator
2024
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
as Self
2023
His Dark Materials
as Kaisa (voice)
2019
Press
as George Emmerson
2018
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
as Self
2018
More Than Words
as Self
2018
Concorde
as Self - Narrator
2017
American Assassin
as Director Stansfield
2017
Decline and Fall
as Dr Fagan
2017
Urban Myths
as Salvador Dali
2017
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
as Self (Narrator)
2016
This Changed Everything
as Narrator
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Oberon
2016
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
as Lady Bracknell
2015
Capitaine Marleau
as Herbert White
2015
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
as Self - Presenter
2015
Effie Gray
as Mr. Ruskin
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as James Tyrone
2014
Being Poirot
as Self - Narrator
2013
The Jesus Storybook Bible
as Narrator
2013
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2013
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
as Self - Host
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Hollow Crown
as Duke of York
2012
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
as Self - Presenter
2012
Great Expectations
as Mr. Jaggers
2011
Hidden
as Sir Nigel Fountain
2011
Going Postal 2in1
as Reacherové pozlátko
2011
Perspectives
2011
The Story of Jesus
as Narrator
2011
All My Sons
as Joe Keller
2011
The Jesus Storybook Bible
as Narrator
2011
David Suchet on the Orient Express
as Himself - Presenter
2010
Going Postal
as Reacher Gilt
2010
Diverted
as Samuel Stearn
2009
Act of God
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
2009
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
2008
The Bank Job
as Lew Vogel
2008
Flood
as DPM Campbell
2007
Maxwell
as Robert Maxwell
2007
Dracula
as Abraham Van Helsing
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Narrator (voice)
2006
Flushed Away
as Rita's Dad (voice)
2006
The One Show
as Self
2006
Extinct
2005
Doctor Who
as The Landlord
2005
A Bear Named Winnie
as General Hallholland
2004
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
as Narrator
2004
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as The Phoenix (voice)
2004
Henry VIII
as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
2003
Foolproof
as Leo Gillette
2003
The In-Laws
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
2003
Live from Baghdad
as Naji Al-Hadithi
2002
The Stanford Prison Experiment
as Narrator (voice)
2002
NCS: Manhunt
as DI John Borne
2002
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
The Way We Live Now
as Augustus Melmotte
2001
Victoria & Albert
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
2001
Murder in Mind
as Edward Palmer
2001
Sabotage!!
as Napoleón
2000
RKO 281
as Louis B. Mayer
1999
Wing Commander
as Capt. Jason Sansky
1999
A Perfect Murder
as Mohamed Karaman
1998
Seesaw
as Morris Price
1998
Solomon
as Joab
1997
Solomon
as Joab
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as The Phoenix (voice)
1997
Sunday
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
1997
Deadly Voyage
as Vlachos
1996
Moses
as Aaron
1996
Executive Decision
as Nagi Hassan
1996
Cruel Train
as Ruben Roberts
1995
Der Fall Lucona
as Rudi Waltz
1993
The Secret Agent
as Alfred Verloc
1992
The Secret Agent
as Alfred Verloc
1992