Cast & creator
David Suchet
Best known for Doctor Who, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The One Show
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.
Also known as: David Courtney Suchet, Дэвид Суше, 데이비드 수쳇, دیوید سوشه
74
film credits
61
television credits
134
1949–2025 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (135)
Showing 135 of 135 credits
Doctor Who
The Landlord
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Hercule Poirot
1989
The One Show
Self
2006
American Playhouse
Edward Teller
1982American Playhouse
Joe
1982
Play for Today
Reger
1970
Screen Two
Vlachos
1985
Tales of the Unexpected
Yves Drouard
1979
Richard & Judy
Self
2001
The Professionals
Krivas
1977
His Dark Materials
Kaisa (voice)
2019
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Q&A
Self - Panellist
2008
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
Flushed Away
Rita's Dad (voice)
2006
Public Eye
Martin Kulman
1965
The BAFTA Awards
Self
1949
Great Expectations
Mr. Jaggers
2011
The Play on One
Joe
1988
The Protectors
Detective
1972The Protectors
Leo
1972
The Bank Job
Lew Vogel
2008
The Hollow Crown
Duke of York
2012
Capitaine Marleau
Herbert White
2015
American Assassin
Director Stansfield
2017
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Leopold Bloom
1988
Urban Myths
Salvador Dali
2017
Murder in Mind
Edward Palmer
2001
A Perfect Murder
Mohamed Karaman
1998
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Inspector Tsientsin
1983
Arthur and the Invisibles
Narrator (voice)
2006
Theatre Night
1985
Executive Decision
Nagi Hassan
1996
Perspectives
2011
The Dame Edna Experience
Self
1987
Henry VIII
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
2003
Oppenheimer
Edward Teller
1980
Master of the Game
André d'Usseau
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Harry and the Hendersons
Jacques Lafleur
1987
Oxbridge Blues
Colin
1984
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Dino Grandi
1985
Going Postal
Reacher Gilt
2010
Moses
Aaron
19964 Play
Carver
1989
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Buller
1984
Wing Commander
Capt. Jason Sansky
1999
Iron Eagle
Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
1986
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
The In-Laws
Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
2003
The Way We Live Now
Augustus Melmotte
2001
Freud
Sigmund Freud
1984
Press
George Emmerson
2018
Decline and Fall
Dr Fagan
2017Long Ago and Far Away
1989
Flood
DPM Campbell
2007
Thirteen at Dinner
Insp. Japp
1985
Live from Baghdad
Naji Al-Hadithi
2002
Effie Gray
Mr. Ruskin
2014
Blott on the Landscape
Blott
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
Alex
1985
The Jesus Storybook Bible
Narrator
2013
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix (voice)
1997
Hidden
Sir Nigel Fountain
2011
A Bear Named Winnie
General Hallholland
2004
Going Postal 2in1
Reacherové pozlátko
2011
To Kill a Priest
Bishop
1988
Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet
Self - Presenter
2025
Solomon
Joab
1997
The Au Pair
George
2025
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Clopin Trouillefou
1982
NCS: Manhunt
DI John Borne
2002
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Oberon
2016
The Little Drummer Girl
Mesterbein
1984
Solomon
Joab
1997
Foolproof
Leo Gillette
2003
RKO 281
Louis B. Mayer
1999
Dracula
Abraham Van Helsing
2006
Red Monarch
Beria
1983
Victoria & Albert
Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
2001
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter
Self - Presenter
2015Extinct
2005
When the Whales Came
Will
1989
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Self
2018
The Last Innocent Man
Jonathan Gault
1987
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Self (Narrator)
2016
Trenchcoat
Inspector Stagnos
1983
The Missionary
Corbett
1982
The Story of Jesus
Narrator
2011
Long Day's Journey Into Night
James Tyrone
2014
Being Poirot
Self - Narrator
2013
Cause Célèbre
T.J. O'Connor
1987
Concorde
Self - Narrator
2017
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2013
A World Apart
Muller
1988
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
Self
2023Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
Blott on the Landscape
1985
More Than Words
Self
2018
A Tale of Two Cities
John Barsad
1980
Seesaw
Morris Price
1998
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Self - Actor
1991
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
Self - Host
2012
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Narrator (voice)
1990James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Leopold Bloom
1988Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Secret Agent
Alfred Verloc
1992
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Self
1990
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix (voice)
2004
Der Fall Lucona
Rudi Waltz
1993
David Suchet on the Orient Express
Himself - Presenter
2010The Secret Agent
Alfred Verloc
1992
Diverted
Samuel Stearn
2009
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
Lady Bracknell
2015
Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
2007
Act of God
Dr. Benjamin Cisco
2009
The Jesus Storybook Bible
Narrator
2011
Deadly Voyage
Vlachos
1996Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Shakespeare
1990
Cruel Train
Ruben Roberts
1995Being Normal
Bill
1983
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
Narrator
2004
A Song for Europe
Steve Dyer
1985
Sabotage!!
Napoleón
2000
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
Self - Presenter
2012
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Narrator (voice)
2002
Murrow
William Shirer
1986
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
Himself
2024Poirot and More: A Retrospective
Creator
2024
This Changed Everything
Narrator
2016
The Cause
Reger
1981
Sunday
Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
1997
All My Sons
Joe Keller
2011Separation
Joe
1990