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