David Suchet
Date of birth: 1946-05-02
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: David Courtney Suchet, Дэвид Суше, 데이비드 수쳇, دیوید سوشه
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 older brother, John Suchet, is a British television presenter and newsreader.
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A Perfect Murder
1998-06-05
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the lov
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2002-05-11
An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to pl
Thirteen at Dinner
1985-09-19
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercul
Flushed Away
2006-10-22
London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for
Flood
2007-08-24
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high s
The Bank Job
2008-02-28
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine i
Harry and the Hendersons
1987-06-05
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road.
Live from Baghdad
2002-12-07
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting
Foolproof
2003-10-03
Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually p
Diverted
2009-03-08
On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Ca
RKO 281
1999-11-20
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982-02-02
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmer
Sunday
1997-05-01
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.
The Missionary
1982-11-02
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990-09-28
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could buil
Red Monarch
1983-06-16
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampan
Cause Célèbre
1987-08-23
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall
Sabotage!!
2000-10-14
June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in histo
Effie Gray
2014-03-08
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride
Separation
1990-06-27
When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationshi
Victoria & Albert
2001-08-26
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in
Dracula
2006-12-28
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is on
Blott on the Landscape
1985-02-06
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through
The Last Innocent Man
1987-04-19
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989-11-25
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2023-12-12
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square join with award-winning artists Lea Salonga and
Act of God
2009-01-01
When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for
Cruel Train
1995-12-22
In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a
The Jesus Storybook Bible
2011-02-01
The award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago, now c
Trenchcoat
1983-03-11
An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week s
Executive Decision
1996-03-15
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985-01-25
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend
Der Fall Lucona
1993-06-10
Based on a true story. The Lucona was a ship that sank in the Indian Ocean in 1977. Allegedly, the s
To Kill a Priest
1988-09-07
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Being Normal
1983-07-27
Anna Carteret and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) star in Being Normal. The pair play a British c
More Than Words
2018-01-29
TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communi
Deadly Voyage
1996-06-14
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to disp
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2015-10-08
National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wil
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013-03-17
David Suchet, TV's Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Aga
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2023-04-09
A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.
A Song for Europe
1985-05-27
Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his emp
A Bear Named Winnie
2004-12-12
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an o
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016-04-23
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the l
Wing Commander
1999-03-11
In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the vicious alien Kilrathi Empire.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984-03-30
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lad
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012-11-01
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an
Murrow
1986-01-19
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London dur
Maxwell
2007-05-04
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2016-12-31
The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One. As part of its co
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991-01-01
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988-01-10
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy
American Assassin
2017-07-14
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Sta
The In-Laws
2003-05-23
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are
A Tale of Two Cities
1980-12-02
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
A World Apart
1988-06-17
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daught
The Little Drummer Girl
1984-10-19
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intellige
David Suchet on the Orient Express
2010-07-07
In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express
When the Whales Came
1989-03-28
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their islan
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006-12-13
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfath
Being Poirot
2013-11-13
After 25 years playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of hi
This Changed Everything
2016-10-03
This Changed Everything: 500 Years of the Reformation celebrates the fruits of the Reformation while
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2012-03-25
David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in
All My Sons
2011-01-01
Arthur Miller's scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with
Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014-01-01
Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on one day in the life of the Tyrone family. Youngest son Edmu
Iron Eagle
1986-01-17
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern s
The Cause
1981-02-03
"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and
Solomon
1997-12-15
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the cleve
The Secret Agent
1992-10-28
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Ver
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990-09-20
Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life,
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997-11-16
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
2024-05-31
David Suchet, in conversation with journalist Geoffrey Wansell, invites audiences to experience a ra
Moses
1995-12-18
Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket on the Nil
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990-06-30
The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Di