David Suchet
Acting

David Suchet

Born 2 May 1946 · London, England, UK
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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.

Known for

Flushed Away
Doctor Who
American Assassin
Arthur and the Invisibles
The Bank Job
His Dark Materials
A Perfect Murder
Executive Decision
Harry and the Hendersons
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Iron Eagle
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
American Assassin
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
This Changed Everything
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
Effie Gray
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Jesus Storybook Bible
All My Sons
Going Postal 2in1
Diverted
Act of God
The Bank Job
Flood
Maxwell
Flushed Away
Dracula
Arthur and the Invisibles
A Bear Named Winnie
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers
Foolproof
The In-Laws
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Live from Baghdad
Victoria & Albert
Sabotage!!
RKO 281
Wing Commander
A Perfect Murder
Sunday
Solomon
Executive Decision
Deadly Voyage
Cruel Train
Der Fall Lucona
The Secret Agent
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
When the Whales Came
To Kill a Priest
A World Apart
Harry and the Hendersons
Cause Célèbre
The Last Innocent Man
Murrow
Iron Eagle
Thirteen at Dinner
Blott on the Landscape
The Falcon and the Snowman
A Song for Europe
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Little Drummer Girl
Red Monarch
Trenchcoat
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Missionary
The Cause
A Tale of Two Cities
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