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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (22)

• Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet — Self - Presenter
• 2023Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir — Self
• More Than Words — Self
• 2018Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story — Self
• Concorde — Self - Narrator
• 2016Peter Pan Goes Wrong — Self (Narrator)
• David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter — Self - Presenter
• 2013Being Poirot — Self - Narrator
• 2013The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet — Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
• David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul — Self - Host
• 2012David Suchet: People I Have Shot — Self - Presenter
• 2010David Suchet on the Orient Express — Himself - Presenter
• Q&A — Self - Panellist
• The One Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 1991The Trouble With Agatha Christie — Self - Actor
• 1990Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait — Self
• The Dame Edna Experience — Self
• Timewatch — Self - Narrator (voice)
• An Audience with... — Self
• The BAFTA Awards — Self