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name: "David Suchet"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-suchet"
fi1m_id: "david-suchet"
imdb_id: "nm0837064"
tmdb_id: 20277
wikidata_id: "Q211831"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 May 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T19:07:16.395250+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# David Suchet

## Identity

David Suchet

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-suchet
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-suchet
- **IMDb ID:** nm0837064
- **TMDB ID:** 20277
- **Wikidata ID:** Q211831
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suchet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211831, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20277

Actor. Born 2 May 1946 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 May 1946, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1965–2006
- **Also known as:** David Courtney Suchet, Дэвид Суше, 데이비드 수쳇, دیوید سوشه
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suchet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211831, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20277

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Flushed Away*](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md) (64)

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## Biography

David Suchet is an English actor. Born on 2 May 1946 in London, he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973.

He is best known for playing Hercule Poirot in the ITV series *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989–2013). Other credits include voicing Rita's Dad in the animated film *Flushed Away* (2006) and appearing as Martin Kulman in the early series *Public Eye* (1965).

Suchet has received an OBE (2002), a CBE (2011) and a knighthood (2020) for services to drama. His older brother is the journalist and presenter John Suchet.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Flushed Away* (2006), Fi1m 64, as Rita's Dad (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)

## Complete filmography (110)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Au Pair* (2025), series, as George
- *Poirot and More: A Retrospective* (2024), Creator
- *His Dark Materials* (2019), series, as Kaisa (voice)
- *Press* (2018), series, as George Emmerson
- *American Assassin* (2017), as Director Stansfield
- *Decline and Fall* (2017), series, as Dr Fagan
- *Urban Myths* (2017), series, as Salvador Dali
- *This Changed Everything* (2016), as Narrator
- *Shakespeare Live! From the RSC* (2016), as Oberon
- *The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage* (2015), as Lady Bracknell
- *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Herbert White
- *Effie Gray* (2014), as Mr. Ruskin
- *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2014), as James Tyrone
- *The Jesus Storybook Bible* (2013), series, as Narrator
- *Starring Sigmund Freud* (2012), Actor
- *The Hollow Crown* (2012), series, as Duke of York
- *Great Expectations* (2011), series, as Mr. Jaggers
- *Hidden* (2011), series, as Sir Nigel Fountain
- *Going Postal 2in1* (2011), as Reacherové pozlátko
- *Perspectives* (2011), series, Actor
- *The Story of Jesus* (2011), series, as Narrator
- *All My Sons* (2011), as Joe Keller
- *The Jesus Storybook Bible* (2011), as Narrator
- *Going Postal* (2010), series, as Reacher Gilt
- *Diverted* (2009), as Samuel Stearn
- *Act of God* (2009), as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
- *The Bank Job* (2008), as Lew Vogel
- *Flood* (2007), as DPM Campbell
- *Maxwell* (2007), as Robert Maxwell
- *Dracula* (2006), as Abraham Van Helsing
- *Arthur and the Invisibles* (2006), as Narrator (voice)
- *Flushed Away* (2006), as Rita's Dad (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)
- *Extinct* (2005), series, Actor
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as The Landlord — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *A Bear Named Winnie* (2004), as General Hallholland
- *Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets* (2004), series, Actor
- *Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers* (2004), as Narrator
- *The Phoenix and the Carpet* (2004), as The Phoenix (voice)
- *Henry VIII* (2003), series, as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- *Foolproof* (2003), as Leo Gillette
- *The In-Laws* (2003), as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
- *Live from Baghdad* (2002), as Naji Al-Hadithi
- *The Stanford Prison Experiment* (2002), as Narrator (voice)
- *NCS: Manhunt* (2002), series, as DI John Borne
- *The Way We Live Now* (2001), series, as Augustus Melmotte
- *Victoria & Albert* (2001), as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
- *Murder in Mind* (2001), series, as Edward Palmer
- *Sabotage!!* (2000), as Napoleón
- *RKO 281* (1999), as Louis B. Mayer
- *Wing Commander* (1999), as Capt. Jason Sansky
- *A Perfect Murder* (1998), as Mohamed Karaman
- *Seesaw* (1998), series, as Morris Price
- *Solomon* (1997), as Joab
- *Solomon* (1997), series, as Joab
- *The Phoenix and the Carpet* (1997), series, as The Phoenix (voice)
- *Sunday* (1997), as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
- *Deadly Voyage* (1996), as Vlachos
- *Moses* (1996), series, as Aaron
- *Executive Decision* (1996), as Nagi Hassan
- *Cruel Train* (1995), as Ruben Roberts
- *Der Fall Lucona* (1993), as Rudi Waltz
- *The Secret Agent* (1992), as Alfred Verloc
- *The Secret Agent* (1992), series, as Alfred Verloc
- *The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship* (1990), as Narrator (voice)
- *Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death* (1990), as Shakespeare
- *Separation* (1990), as Joe
- *Nobody Here But Us Chickens* (1989), Actor
- *4 Play* (1989), series, as Carver
- *When the Whales Came* (1989), as Will
- *Long Ago and Far Away* (1989), series, Actor
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, as Hercule Poirot · Associate Producer
- *To Kill a Priest* (1988), as Bishop
- *A World Apart* (1988), as Muller
- *The Play on One* (1988), series, as Joe
- *The Modern World: Ten Great Writers* (1988), series, as Leopold Bloom
- *James Joyce's 'Ulysses'* (1988), as Leopold Bloom
- *Cause Célèbre* (1987), as T.J. O'Connor
- *Harry and the Hendersons* (1987), as Jacques Lafleur
- *The Last Innocent Man* (1987), as Jonathan Gault
- *Murrow* (1986), as William Shirer
- *Iron Eagle* (1986), as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
- *Mussolini: The Untold Story* (1985), series, as Dino Grandi
- *Thirteen at Dinner* (1985), as Insp. Japp
- *Theatre Night* (1985), series, Actor
- *A Song for Europe* (1985), as Steve Dyer
- *Blott on the Landscape* (1985), Actor
- *Blott on the Landscape* (1985), series, as Blott
- *The Falcon and the Snowman* (1985), as Alex
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Vlachos
- *Oxbridge Blues* (1984), series, as Colin
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (1984), as Mesterbein
- *Freud* (1984), series, as Sigmund Freud
- *Playing Shakespeare* (1984), series, Actor
- *Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes* (1984), as Buller
- *Master of the Game* (1984), series, as André d'Usseau
- *Reilly: Ace of Spies* (1983), series, as Inspector Tsientsin
- *Being Normal* (1983), as Bill
- *Red Monarch* (1983), as Beria
- *Trenchcoat* (1983), as Inspector Stagnos
- *The Missionary* (1982), as Corbett
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1982), as Clopin Trouillefou
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Edward Teller, Joe
- *The Cause* (1981), as Reger
- *A Tale of Two Cities* (1980), as John Barsad
- *Oppenheimer* (1980), series, as Edward Teller
- *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979), series, as Yves Drouard
- *The Professionals* (1977), series, as Krivas
- *The Protectors* (1972), series, as Detective, Leo
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, as Reger
- *Public Eye* (1965), series, as Martin Kulman

## Gallery

- ![David Suchet](https://film.one/media/person/159410/gallery-216998843cc1.jpg) David Suchet — Phil Chambers from Hamburg, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/David_Suchet.jpg/1280px-David_Suchet.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Suchet (cropped by Jeff Dahl) (0010)](https://film.one/media/person/159410/gallery-edae2286f814.jpg) David Suchet (cropped by Jeff Dahl) (0010) — Phil Chambers from Hamburg, Germany, edited by --Richard Bartz 20:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/David_Suchet_alt_crop.jpg/1280px-David_Suchet_alt_crop.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Suchet (Sharpened and noise reduced. By User:Arad) (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/159410/gallery-05029c368743.jpg) David Suchet (Sharpened and noise reduced. By User:Arad) (2006) — Phil Chambers from Hamburg, Germany, edited by --Richard Bartz 20:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/David_Suchet_edit.jpg/1280px-David_Suchet_edit.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- !['Ictus' at Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally. 'Ictus' prepares to take the turn from the Grand Union Canal into the marina. She is steam driven and was built  (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/159410/gallery-ebdd40b3e5fd.jpg) 'Ictus' at Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally. 'Ictus' prepares to take the turn from the Grand Union Canal into the marina. She is steam driven and was built  (2018) — Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Ictus_at_Braunston_Historic_Narrowboat_Rally_%28geograph_5821636%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- Knight Bachelor 2020: Knight Bachelor (won)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2011: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (won)
- Malice Domestic Poirot Award 2003: Malice Domestic Poirot Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play 2000: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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