David Suchet

David Suchet

1946-05-02 London, England, UK 71 Credits

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 ...

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Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

2023

as Self

Acting

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square join with award-winning artists Lea Salonga and Sir David Suchet for Season of Light: Christmas wi...

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

2023

as Self

Acting

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

More Than Words

More Than Words

2018

as Self

8.0
Acting

TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of ...

American Assassin

American Assassin

2017

as Director Stansfield

6.4
Acting

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate...

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

2016

as Narrator

7.5
Acting

The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One. As part of its commitment to community theatre, the BBC has commiss...

This Changed Everything

This Changed Everything

2016

as Narrator

Acting

This Changed Everything: 500 Years of the Reformation celebrates the fruits of the Reformation while exploring difficult questions about the cost of d...

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

as Oberon

7.2
Acting

From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversar...

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

2015

as Lady Bracknell

9.0
Acting

National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Bein...

Effie Gray

Effie Gray

2014

as Mr. Ruskin

5.9
Acting

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

2014

as James Tyrone

Acting

Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on one day in the life of the Tyrone family. Youngest son Edmund is ill, and the family are worried about mother...

Being Poirot

Being Poirot

2013

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

After 25 years playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character.

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

2013

as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

David Suchet, TV's Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet...

Starring Sigmund Freud

2012

Acting

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the...

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

2012

as Self - Presenter

Acting

David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in a quest to capture on camera how Britain has chan...

The Jesus Storybook Bible

The Jesus Storybook Bible

2011

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

The award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago, now comes to life. Narrated by British actor David Such...

All My Sons

All My Sons

2011

as Joe Keller

Acting

Arthur Miller's scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed perfo...

David Suchet on the Orient Express

David Suchet on the Orient Express

2010

as Himself - Presenter

6.8
Acting

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an adapta...

Diverted

Diverted

2009

as Samuel Stearn

6.8
Acting

On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for...

Act of God

Act of God

2009

as Dr. Benjamin Cisco

4.8
Acting

When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.

The Bank Job

The Bank Job

2008

as Lew Vogel

6.8
Acting

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood...

Flood

Flood

2007

as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

5.3
Acting

Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...

Maxwell

Maxwell

2007

as Robert Maxwell

6.0
Acting

Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests st...

Dracula

Dracula

2006

as Abraham Van Helsing

5.6
Acting

The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's futu...

Arthur and the Invisibles

Arthur and the Invisibles

2006

as Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who liv...

Flushed Away

Flushed Away

2006

as Rita's Dad (voice)

6.3
Acting

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Rat...

A Bear Named Winnie

A Bear Named Winnie

2004

as General Hallholland

6.5
Acting

Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is nam...

The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet

2004

as The Phoenix (voice)

Acting

Relive the magic in this new 90 minute movie of the classic BBC series! Embark on marvelous adventures with THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET! Jane, Robert, ...

Foolproof

Foolproof

2003

as Leo Gillette

6.1
Acting

Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually perform them. The game goes wrong when their latest...

The In-Laws

The In-Laws

2003

as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

5.6
Acting

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad

2002

as Naji Al-Hadithi

6.7
Acting

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2002

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to play prisoners and guards in an bid to examine the n...

Victoria & Albert

Victoria & Albert

2001

as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD

7.6
Acting

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-...

Sabotage!!

Sabotage!!

2000

as Napoleón

5.5
Acting

June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. He has spent his whole life creating a mystiqu...

RKO 281

RKO 281

2000

as Louis B. Mayer

6.4
Acting

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

2000

as Poirot

6.0
Acting

Agatha Christie's master sleuth Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is lured out of retirement when a series of vicious murders occur in the sleepy English ...

Wing Commander

Wing Commander

1999

as Capt. Jason Sansky

4.8
Acting

In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the vicious alien Kilrathi Empire. When the Kilrathi capture a crucial navigational d...

A Perfect Murder

A Perfect Murder

1998

as Mohamed Karaman

6.5
Acting

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful pl...

Solomon

Solomon

1997

as Joab

6.6
Acting

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospecti...

Sunday

Sunday

1997

as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta

5.2
Acting

Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

Deadly Voyage

Deadly Voyage

1996

as Vlachos

5.4
Acting

When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowa...

Executive Decision

Executive Decision

1996

as Nagi Hassan

6.3
Acting

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) s...

Cruel Train

Cruel Train

1995

as Ruben Roberts

4.5
Acting

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfat...

Der Fall Lucona

Der Fall Lucona

1993

as Rudi Waltz

5.0
Acting

Based on a true story. The Lucona was a ship that sank in the Indian Ocean in 1977. Allegedly, the steamer had a uranium factory on board. And there w...

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

1992

as Alfred Verloc

8.0
Acting

1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to...

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

1991

as Self - Actor

10.0
Acting

An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and me...

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

1990

as Narrator (voice)

8.1
Acting

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's d...

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

1990

as Self

Acting

Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhoo...

Separation

1990

as Joe

6.0
Acting

When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. A...

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

1989

Acting

Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

When the Whales Came

When the Whales Came

1989

as Will

6.4
Acting

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a ...

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest

1988

as Bishop

5.9
Acting

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A World Apart

A World Apart

1988

as Muller

6.3
Acting

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together...

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

1988

as Leopold Bloom

Acting

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fanta...

Cause Célèbre

Cause Célèbre

1987

as T.J. O'Connor

6.0
Acting

When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowe...

Harry and the Hendersons

Harry and the Hendersons

1987

as Jacques Lafleur

6.1
Acting

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they exa...

The Last Innocent Man

The Last Innocent Man

1987

as Jonathan Gault

5.2
Acting

A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.

Murrow

Murrow

1986

as William Shirer

5.0
Acting

Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to his TV documentary series "See It...

Iron Eagle

Iron Eagle

1986

as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

5.6
Acting

When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds...

Thirteen at Dinner

Thirteen at Dinner

1985

as Insp. Japp

5.7
Acting

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make h...

A Song for Europe

1985

as Steve Dyer

3.5
Acting

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regula...

Blott on the Landscape

Blott on the Landscape

1985

8.8
Acting

Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman

1985

as Alex

6.5
Acting

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

The Little Drummer Girl

The Little Drummer Girl

1984

as Mesterbein

5.5
Acting

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by preten...

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984

as Buller

6.4
Acting

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their t...

Being Normal

1983

as Bill

Acting

Anna Carteret and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) star in Being Normal. The pair play a British couple who must come to terms with their son's phys...

Red Monarch

Red Monarch

1983

as Beria

5.0
Acting

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still...

Trenchcoat

Trenchcoat

1983

as Inspector Stagnos

5.7
Acting

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

The Missionary

The Missionary

1982

as Corbett

5.6
Acting

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982

as Clopin Trouillefou

5.8
Acting

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...

The Cause

The Cause

1981

as Reger

Acting

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A conf...

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

1980

as John Barsad

5.7
Acting

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...