David Suchet

Known for: Acting
Born: May 2, 1946, London, England, UK
Movies: 73

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.3

Flushed Away

2006

6.4

American Assassin

2017

6.4

Arthur and the Invisibles

2006

6.9

The Bank Job

2008

6.6

A Perfect Murder

1998

6.4

Executive Decision

1996

6.1

Harry and the Hendersons

1987

6.4

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984

5.6

Iron Eagle

1986

5.6

The In-Laws

2003

Filmography

2024	Poirot and More: A Retrospective	Himself
2023	Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir	Self
2018	Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story	Self
2017	American Assassin	Director Stansfield
2016	Peter Pan Goes Wrong	Self (Narrator)
2016	This Changed Everything	Narrator
2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Oberon
2015	The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage	Lady Bracknell
2014	Effie Gray	Mr. Ruskin
2014	Long Day's Journey Into Night	James Tyrone
2013	Being Poirot	Self - Narrator
2013	The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet	Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2012	Starring Sigmund Freud
2012	David Suchet: People I Have Shot	Self - Presenter
2011	Going Postal 2in1	Reacherové pozlátko
2011	All My Sons	Joe Keller
2011	The Jesus Storybook Bible	Narrator
2010	David Suchet on the Orient Express	Himself - Presenter
2009	Diverted	Samuel Stearn
2009	Act of God	Dr. Benjamin Cisco
2008	The Bank Job	Lew Vogel
2007	Flood	DPM Campbell
2007	Maxwell	Robert Maxwell
2006	Dracula	Abraham Van Helsing
2006	Arthur and the Invisibles	Narrator (voice)
2006	Flushed Away	Rita's Dad (voice)
2004	A Bear Named Winnie	General Hallholland
2004	Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers	Narrator
2004	The Phoenix and the Carpet	The Phoenix (voice)
2003	Foolproof	Leo Gillette
2003	The In-Laws	Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
2002	Live from Baghdad	Naji Al-Hadithi
2002	The Stanford Prison Experiment	Narrator (voice)
2001	Victoria & Albert	Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
2000	Sabotage!!	Napoleón
1999	RKO 281	Louis B. Mayer
1999	Wing Commander	Capt. Jason Sansky
1998	A Perfect Murder	Mohamed Karaman
1997	Solomon	Joab
1997	Sunday	Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
1996	Deadly Voyage	Vlachos
1996	Executive Decision	Nagi Hassan
1995	Cruel Train	Ruben Roberts
1993	Der Fall Lucona	Rudi Waltz
1992	The Secret Agent	Alfred Verloc
1991	The Trouble With Agatha Christie	Self - Actor
1990	The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship	Narrator (voice)
1990	Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait	Self
1990	Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death	Shakespeare
1990	Separation	Joe
1989	Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989	When the Whales Came	Will
1988	To Kill a Priest	Bishop
1988	A World Apart	Muller
1988	James Joyce's 'Ulysses'	Leopold Bloom
1987	Cause Célèbre	T.J. O'Connor
1987	Harry and the Hendersons	Jacques Lafleur
1987	The Last Innocent Man	Jonathan Gault
1986	Murrow	William Shirer
1986	Iron Eagle	Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
1985	Thirteen at Dinner	Insp. Japp
1985	A Song for Europe	Steve Dyer
1985	Blott on the Landscape
1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Alex
1984	The Little Drummer Girl	Mesterbein
1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Buller
1983	Being Normal	Bill
1983	Red Monarch	Beria
1983	Trenchcoat	Inspector Stagnos
1982	The Missionary	Corbett
1982	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Clopin Trouillefou
1981	The Cause	Reger
1980	A Tale of Two Cities	John Barsad

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