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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023
as Self
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
2023
as Self
A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

More Than Words
2018
as Self
TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of ...

American Assassin
2017
as Director Stansfield
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
2016
as Narrator
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
2016
as Narrator
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
2016
as Oberon
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
2015
as Lady Bracknell
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
2014
as Mr. Ruskin
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
as James Tyrone
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
2013
as Narrator
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
2013
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
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
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
2012
as Self - Presenter
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
2011
as Narrator
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
2011
as Joe Keller
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
2010
as Himself - Presenter
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
2009
as Samuel Stearn
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
2009
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.

The Bank Job
2008
as Lew Vogel
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
2007
as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
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
2007
as Robert Maxwell
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests st...

Dracula
2006
as Abraham Van Helsing
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
2006
as Narrator (voice)
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
2006
as Rita's Dad (voice)
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
2004
as General Hallholland
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
2004
as The Phoenix (voice)
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
2003
as Leo Gillette
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
2003
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

Live from Baghdad
2002
as Naji Al-Hadithi
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
2002
as Narrator (voice)
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
2001
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
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!!
2000
as Napoleón
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
2000
as Louis B. Mayer
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
2000
as Poirot
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
1999
as Capt. Jason Sansky
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
1998
as Mohamed Karaman
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
1997
as Joab
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
1997
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

Deadly Voyage
1996
as Vlachos
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
1996
as Nagi Hassan
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
1995
as Ruben Roberts
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
1993
as Rudi Waltz
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
1992
as Alfred Verloc
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
1991
as Self - Actor
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
1990
as Narrator (voice)
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
1990
as Self
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
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
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

When the Whales Came
1989
as Will
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
1988
as Bishop
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A World Apart
1988
as Muller
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
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
1987
as T.J. O'Connor
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
1987
as Jacques Lafleur
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
1987
as Jonathan Gault
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.

Murrow
1986
as William Shirer
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
1986
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
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
1985
as Insp. Japp
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
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
1985
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
1985
as Alex
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
1984
as Mesterbein
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
1984
as Buller
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
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
1983
as Beria
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
1983
as Inspector Stagnos
An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

The Missionary
1982
as Corbett
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
1982
as Clopin Trouillefou
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
1981
as Reger
"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
1980
as John Barsad
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...