David Suchet
Known for: Acting
Born: May 2, 1946
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
72 movies · 59 TV shows, newest first
6.6
The Au Pair
2025
8.0
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
2025
NR
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024
NR
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
7.8
His Dark Materials
2019
7.0
Press
2018
NR
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018
NR
More Than Words
2018
NR
Concorde
2017
6.4
American Assassin
2017
5.7
Decline and Fall
2017
7.4
Urban Myths
2017
7.5
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016
NR
This Changed Everything
2016
7.4
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
9.0
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015
6.1
Capitaine Marleau
2015
7.5
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
2015
6.0
Effie Gray
2014
NR
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
7.8
Being Poirot
2013
NR
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2013
7.5
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
NR
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
2012NR
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
7.4
The Hollow Crown
2012
NR
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012
7.3
Great Expectations
2011
6.0
Hidden
2011
NR
Going Postal 2in1
2011
NR
Perspectives
2011
NR
The Story of Jesus
2011
NR
All My Sons
2011
10.0
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011
6.8
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010
7.2
Going Postal
2010
6.8
Diverted
2009
4.8
Act of God
2009
3.2
Q&A
2008
6.9
The Bank Job
2008
5.3
Flood
2007
6.0
Maxwell
2007
5.6
Dracula
2006
6.4
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
6.3
Flushed Away
2006
4.4
The One Show
2006NR
Extinct
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
6.6
A Bear Named Winnie
2004
7.3
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
7.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
7.0
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
7.0
Henry VIII
2003
6.1
Foolproof
2003
5.6
The In-Laws
2003
6.7
Live from Baghdad
2002
NR
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002
7.5
NCS: Manhunt
2002
3.4
Richard & Judy
2001
7.7
The Way We Live Now
2001
7.6
Victoria & Albert
2001
8.3
Murder in Mind
2001
5.8
Sabotage!!
2000
6.5
RKO 281
1999
4.8
Wing Commander
1999
6.6
A Perfect Murder
1998
8.0
Seesaw
1998
6.8
Solomon
1997
7.0
Solomon
1997
NR
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
5.2
Sunday
1997
5.6
Deadly Voyage
1996
6.9
Moses
1996
6.4
Executive Decision
1996
4.3
Cruel Train
1995
6.0
Der Fall Lucona
1993
8.5
The Secret Agent
1992NR
The Secret Agent
1992
10.0
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
8.1
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
NR
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
19907.0
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
19906.5
Separation
1990NR
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
19897.0
4 Play
1989
6.4
When the Whales Came
19898.0
Long Ago and Far Away
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
6.2
To Kill a Priest
1988
6.4
A World Apart
1988
6.0
The Play on One
1988NR
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988
8.0
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
5.5
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
5.6
Cause Célèbre
1987
6.1
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
5.3
The Last Innocent Man
1987
5.5
Murrow
1986
5.6
Iron Eagle
1986
5.3
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
5.9
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
NR
Theatre Night
1985
5.8
A Song for Europe
1985
8.4
Blott on the Landscape
1985
7.5
Blott on the Landscape
1985
6.4
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
7.0
Oxbridge Blues
1984
5.6
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
5.0
Freud
1984
9.7
Playing Shakespeare
1984
6.4
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
6.2
Master of the Game
1984
7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983NR
Being Normal
1983
5.4
Red Monarch
1983
5.8
Trenchcoat
1983
5.6
The Missionary
1982
6.9
Timewatch
1982
5.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
NR
The Cause
1981
6.1
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
6.7
Oppenheimer
1980
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
7.6
The Professionals
1977
6.1
The Protectors
1972
6.6
Play for Today
1970
8.2
Public Eye
1965
10.0
The BAFTA Awards
1949