David Suchet



First NameDavid
Last NameSuchet
Age65
Date of BirthMay 4, 1946
BirthplaceLondon, England, UK
Height5' 7" (170 cm)
BuildLarge
Eye ColorBrown - Dark
Hair ColorBlack
Star SignTaurus
EthnicityWhite
NationalityBritish
UniversityLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
Occupation CategoryActor
Claim to FameHercule Poirot
Brother(s)John Suchet (ITN newscaster)

David Suchet, OBE, CBE, (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised 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.


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Filmography

Selected David Suchet film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

2012
Great Expectations
Jagger

2012
Richard II
Duke of York

2011
Hidden
Sir Nigel Fountain

2010
Ten Glorious Seconds
Albert

2009
Dr. Benjamin Cisco

2009
Going Postal
Reacher Gilt

2009
Diverted
Samuel Stearn

2008
Lew Vogel

2007
Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

2007
Maxwell
Robert Maxwell

2006
Rita's Dad

2004
A Bear Named Winnie
General Hallholland

2003
Leo Gillette

2003
Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

2003
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

2002
Geppetto

2002
Naji Al-Hadithi

2002
NCS Manhunt
DI John Borne

2002
Get Carman: The Trials of George Carman QC
George Carman QC

2001
Augustus Melmotte

2001
Baron Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, M.D.

2001
Edward Palmer

2001
NCS: Manhunt
DI John Borne

2000
Napoleon

1999
Capt. Jason Sansky

1999
Louis B. Mayer

1998
Seesaw
Morris Price

1997
Sunday
Oliver/Matthew Delacorta

1997
Joab

1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix

1996
Nagi Hassan

1996
Vlachos

1995
Cruel Train
Ruben Roberts

1995
Aaron

1994
The Curious
-

1993
Rudi Waltz

1992
The Secret Agent
Alfred Verloc

1991
How's Business
-

1991
4 Play
Carver

1990
Don't Hang Up
Joe

1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Narrator

1990
Science Fiction
Roger Altounyan

1989
Long Ago and Far Away
Narrator

1989
Hercule Poirot

1988
Muller

1988
Bishop

1988
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World
Leopold Bloom

1988
Once in a Life Time
-

1987
Jacques Lafleur

1987
T.J. O'Connor

1987
The Last Innocent Man
Jonathan Gault

1986
Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh

1986
Murrow
William L. Shirer

1986
King & Castle
Devas

1986
Stress
-

1985
Blott on the Landscape
Blott

1985
Matvei

1985
Dino Grandi

1985
Inspector Japp

1985
A Song for Europe
Steve Dyer

1984
Mesterbein

1984
André d'Usseau

1984
Oxbridge Blues
Colin

1984
Freud
Dr. Sigmund Freud

1983
Inspector Stagnos

1983
Red Monarch
Beria

1983
Inspector Tsientsin

1983
The Last Day
-

1982
Corbett

1980
A Tale of Two Cities
John Barsad

1980
Oppenheimer
Edward Teller

1980
Schiele in Prison
Gustav Klimt

1979
Yves Drouard

1978
Wings of Ash: Pilot for a Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud
-

1977
The Professionals
Krivas

1974
BBC2 Playhouse
Richard

1972
Det. at End, Leo

1970
Play for Today
Reger

1970
The Mating Machine
Henry

1965
Jackanory
-

1965
Public Eye
Martin Kulman

1951
Clopin Trouillefou

Theatre Night
William Shakespeare

Producer Credits






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Hercule Poirot
Alibi (1931)
David Suchet
Dumb Witness (1996)
The Hollow (2004)
Third Girl (2008)