David Suchet
Acting
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.
Born: May 2, 1946
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Jesus Storybook Bible
The award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago, now comes to life. Narrated by British actor David Suchet.
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and members of her family.
Playing Shakespeare
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
The BAFTA Awards
BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage
National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. Directed by Adrian Noble, (Amadeus, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language. Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff (Philip Cumbus – regular player at Shakespeare’s Globe) and the utterly reliable John Worthing J.P., (Downton Abbey’s Michael Benz) lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax (Emily Barber) and Cecily Cardew (Imogen Doel). The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.
Blott on the Landscape
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.
Murder in Mind
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
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 daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
More Than Words
TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of expression, but also the causes and roots of their origin. The series also explores the most interesting changes in the development of different cultures, including tattooing, scarring and body painting. Series also deal with the language of deaf and blind people, different universal languages, laughter, whistling and other peripheral phenomena associated with non-verbal communication. It also answers the questions does politicians think what they say, do suspects lie to the police or the court and how their body language reveals them..
Filmography
as George
as Self - Presenter
as Himself
as Kaisa (voice)
as George Emmerson
as Self
as Self - Narrator
as Director Stansfield
as Dr Fagan
as Salvador Dali
as Self (Narrator)
as Narrator
as Oberon
as Lady Bracknell
as Herbert White
as Self - Presenter
as Mr. Ruskin
as James Tyrone
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
as Self - Host
as Duke of York
as Self - Presenter
as Mr. Jaggers
as Sir Nigel Fountain
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Joe Keller
as Himself - Presenter
as Reacher Gilt
as Samuel Stearn
as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
as Self - Panellist
as Lew Vogel
as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
as Robert Maxwell
as Abraham Van Helsing
as Narrator (voice)
as Rita's Dad (voice)
as Self
as The Landlord
as General Hallholland
as Self
as The Phoenix (voice)
as Thomas Wolsey
as Leo Gillette
as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
as Naji Al-Hadithi
as Narrator (voice)
as DI John Borne
as Self
as Augustus Melmotte
as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
as Edward Palmer
as Napoleón
as Louis B. Mayer
as Capt. Jason Sansky
as Mohamed Karaman
as Morris Price
as Joab
as Joab
as The Phoenix (voice)
as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
as Vlachos
as Aaron
as Nagi Hassan
as Ruben Roberts
as Aaron
as Rudi Waltz
as Alfred Verloc
as Hercule Poirot
as Self - Actor
as Narrator (voice)
as Will
as Hercule Poirot
as Bishop
as Muller
as Joe
as Leopold Bloom
as Self
as T.J. O'Connor
as Jacques Lafleur
as Jonathan Gault
as William Shirer
as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
as Dino Grandi
as Insp. Japp
as Blott
as Alex
as Colin
as Mesterbein
as Sigmund Freud
as André d'Usseau
as Inspector Tsientsin
as Beria
as Inspector Stagnos
as Corbett
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Clopin Trouillefou
as Reger
as John Barsad
as Edward Teller
as Yves Drouard
as Self
as Krivas
as Detective
as Leo
as Reger
as Martin Kulman
as Self