David Suchet
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8861 |
| Birthday | 1946-05-02 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | David Courtney Suchet, Дэвид Суше, 데이비드 수쳇, دیوید سوشه, |
1998
A Perfect Murder
6.55/1545
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...
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A Perfect Murder
2002
The Stanford Prison Experiment
0/0
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...
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
1985
Thirteen at Dinner
5.747/81
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...
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Thirteen at Dinner
2006
Flushed Away
6.317/4069
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...
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Flushed Away
2007
Flood
5.303/160
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...
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Flood
2008
The Bank Job
6.843/2588
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...
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The Bank Job
1987
Harry and the Hendersons
6.131/726
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...
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Harry and the Hendersons
2002
Live from Baghdad
6.722/54
A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
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Live from Baghdad
2003
Foolproof
6.126/202
Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually perform them. The game goes wrong when their latest...
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Foolproof
2009
Diverted
6.8/7
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...
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Diverted
1999
RKO 281
6.45/101
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...
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RKO 281
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.773/33
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1997
Sunday
5/12
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.
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Sunday
1982
The Missionary
5.604/53
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...
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The Missionary
1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
8.125/12
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...
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1983
Red Monarch
5.364/11
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...
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Red Monarch
1987
Cause Célèbre
5.571/7
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...
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Cause Célèbre
2000
Sabotage!!
5.8/5
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...
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Sabotage!!
2014
Effie Gray
5.9/191
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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Effie Gray
1990
Separation
6.5/2
When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. A...
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Separation
2001
Victoria & Albert
7.577/13
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-...
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Victoria & Albert
2006
Dracula
5.588/51
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...
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Dracula
1985
Blott on the Landscape
8.4/5
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.
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Blott on the Landscape
1987
The Last Innocent Man
5.308/13
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.
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The Last Innocent Man
1989
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
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Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
2023
Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
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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...
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Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
2009
Act of God
4.8/2
When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.
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Act of God
1995
Cruel Train
4.25/4
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...
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Cruel Train
2011
The Jesus Storybook Bible
10/1
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...
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The Jesus Storybook Bible
1983
Trenchcoat
5.857/21
An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
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Trenchcoat
1996
Executive Decision
6.339/1025
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another...
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Executive Decision
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
6.405/174
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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The Falcon and the Snowman
1983
Being Normal
0/0
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...
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Being Normal
1993
Der Fall Lucona
6/5
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...
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Der Fall Lucona
1988
To Kill a Priest
6.103/29
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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To Kill a Priest
1996
Deadly Voyage
5.577/13
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...
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Deadly Voyage
2015
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
9/1
National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Bein...
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The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
2013
The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
7.5/4
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...
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2018
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
0/0
A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.
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Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
1985
A Song for Europe
5.333/3
Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regula...
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A Song for Europe
2004
A Bear Named Winnie
6.707/29
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...
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A Bear Named Winnie
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
7.2/12
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversar...
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
1999
Wing Commander
4.822/283
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...
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Wing Commander
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
6.371/499
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...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
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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...
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Starring Sigmund Freud
1986
Murrow
5.5/4
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to his TV documentary series "See It...
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Murrow
2007
Maxwell
6/6
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests st...
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Maxwell
2016
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
7.5/63
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...
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Peter Pan Goes Wrong
1991
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
10/1
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and me...
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The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1988
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
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From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fanta...
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James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
2017
American Assassin
6.419/3233
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...
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American Assassin
2003
The In-Laws
5.631/306
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
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The In-Laws
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
5.95/20
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1988
A World Apart
6.359/32
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...
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A World Apart
1984
The Little Drummer Girl
5.605/43
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by preten...
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The Little Drummer Girl
2010
David Suchet on the Orient Express
6.8/4
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...
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David Suchet on the Orient Express
1989
When the Whales Came
6.382/17
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...
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When the Whales Came
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles
6.385/3031
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of...
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Arthur and the Invisibles
2013
Being Poirot
7.7/10
After 25 years playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character.
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Being Poirot
2016
This Changed Everything
0/0
This Changed Everything: 500 Years of the Reformation celebrates the fruits of the Reformation while exploring difficult questions about the cost of d...
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This Changed Everything
2012
David Suchet: People I Have Shot
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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...
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David Suchet: People I Have Shot
2011
All My Sons
0/0
Arthur Miller's 20th century classic play about social responsibility set against personal gain. When Joe Keller places the prosperity of his family a...
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All My Sons
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night
0/0
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...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
1986
Iron Eagle
5.617/332
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...
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Iron Eagle
1981
The Cause
0/0
"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...
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The Cause
1997
Solomon
6.743/37
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...
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Solomon
1992
The Secret Agent
8.5/2
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...
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The Secret Agent
1990
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
0/0
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...
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Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
7/1
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transform...
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
2024
Poirot and More: A Retrospective
0/0
David Suchet, in conversation with journalist Geoffrey Wansell, invites audiences to experience a rare opportunity with one of the world's most celebr...
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Poirot and More: A Retrospective
1990
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
7/1
The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Disillusioned by human cruelty he is further dismaye...
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