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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

126

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-05-02 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

David Courtney Suchet
Дэвид Суше
데이비드 수쳇
دیوید سوشه

David Suchet

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.

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Acting

2025		The Au Pair as George
2025		Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet as Self - Presenter

2023		Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir as Self
2023		Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story as Himself

2019		The Goes Wrong Show as Self/ Narrator
2019		His Dark Materials as Kaisa (voice)

2018		Press as George Emmerson
2018		More Than Words as Self

2017		Concorde as Self - Narrator
2017		American Assassin as Director Stansfield
2017		Decline and Fall as Dr. Fagan
2017		Urban Myths as Salvador Dali

2016		Peter Pan Goes Wrong as Narrator
2016		This Changed Everything as Narrator
2016		Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Oberon

2015		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 Himself - Presenter

2014		Effie Gray as Mr. Ruskin
2014		Long Day's Journey Into Night as James Tyrone

2013		Being Poirot as Narrator
2013		The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
2013		The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2012		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 Himself - Presenter

2011		Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers
2011		Hidden as Sir Nigel Fountain
2011		Perspectives
2011		The Story of Jesus as Narrator
2011		The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
2011		All My Sons as Joe Keller

2010		David Suchet on the Orient Express as Himself - Presenter
2010		Going Postal as Reacher Gilt

2009		Diverted as Samuel Stearn
2009		Act of God as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

2008		Q&A as Self - Panellist
2008		The Bank Job as Lew Vogel

2007		Flood as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
2007		Maxwell as Robert Maxwell

2006		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

2005		Extinct
2005		Doctor Who as The Landlord

2004		A Bear Named Winnie as General Hallholland
2004		Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
2004		Who Do You Think You Are? as Self

2003		Henry VIII as Thomas Wolsey
2003		Foolproof as Leo Gillette
2003		The In-Laws as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

2002		Live from Baghdad as Naji Al-Hadithi
2002		The Stanford Prison Experiment as Narrator (voice)
2002		NCS: Manhunt as DI John Borne

2001		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

2000		Sabotage!! as Napoleón
2000		RKO 281 as Louis B. Mayer

1999

Wing Commander as Capt. Jason Sansky

1998		A Perfect Murder as Mohamed Karaman
1998		Seesaw as Morris Price

1997		Solomon as Joab
1997		Solomon as Joab
1997		The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix
1997		Sunday as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

1996		Deadly Voyage as Vlachos
1996		Moses as Aaron
1996		Executive Decision as Nagi Hassan

1995		Cruel Train as Ruben Roberts
1995		Moses as Aaron

1993

Der Fall Lucona as Rudi Waltz

1992

The Secret Agent as Alfred Verloc

1991

The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actor

1990		The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Narrator (voice)
1990		Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait as Self
1990		Separation as Joe

1989		Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989		When the Whales Came as Will
1989		Long Ago and Far Away
1989		Agatha Christie's Poirot as Hercule Poirot
1989		Agatha Christie's Poirot as Self

1988		To Kill a Priest as Bishop
1988		A World Apart as Muller
1988		The Play on One as Joe
1988		James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Leopold Bloom
1988		The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Leopold Bloom

1987		The Dame Edna Experience as Self
1987		Cause Célèbre as T.J. O'Connor
1987		Harry and the Hendersons as Jacques Lafleur
1987		The Last Innocent Man as Jonathan Gault

1986		Murrow as William Shirer
1986		Iron Eagle as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

1985		Thirteen at Dinner as Insp. Japp
1985		Theatre Night
1985		A Song for Europe as Steve Dyer
1985		Blott on the Landscape
1985		Blott on the Landscape
1985		The Falcon and the Snowman as Alex

1984		Oxbridge Blues as Colin
1984		The Little Drummer Girl as Mesterbein
1984		Freud as Freud
1984		Playing Shakespeare
1984		Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Buller
1984		Master of the Game as André d'Usseau

1983		Reilly: Ace of Spies as Inspector Tsientsin
1983		Being Normal as Bill
1983		Red Monarch as Beria
1983		Trenchcoat as Inspector Stagnos

1982		The Missionary as Corbett
1982		Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982		The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Clopin Trouillefou

1981

The Cause as Reger

1980		A Tale of Two Cities as John Barsad
1980		Oppenheimer as Edward Teller

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Yves Drouard

1978

An Audience with... as Self

1977

The Professionals as Krivas

1972		The Protectors as Detective
1972		The Protectors as Leo

1970

Play for Today as Reger

1965

Public Eye as Martin Kulman

1949

The BAFTA Awards as Self

Production

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Associate Producer