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David Suchet
Sir David Courtney Suchet is an English actor, known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now (2001). International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot…
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entertainment · English actor (born 1946) · actor · also David Suchet, Sir David Courtney Suchet, Suchet
Born 2 May 1946 · Q211831
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2026· 3 entries
“gave a copy to every director I worked with on a Poirot film.”
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Was the presenter for another documentary Mysteries on the Nile with Sir David Suchet
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: David Suchet's first big drama in years gets release date at last
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2024· 3 entries
Deadline.com: David Suchet Lands First TV Acting Role In Six Years With Channel 5 Series ‘The Au Pair’ Opposite ‘Lupin’ Star
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Deadline.com: ‘Poirot’ Actor David Suchet To Retrace Agatha Christie’s Steps In Doc Series From Soho Studios, Two Rivers Media & Abacus Media Rights; Channel 4 & BritBox On Board
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Yahoo News UK: David Suchet will never watch Kenneth Branagh's Poirot
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2020).
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2017· 2 entries
Digital Spy: David Suchet reveals he accepted Doctor Who role without even reading the script
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Suchet starred as Dr Fagan in the BBC One adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, and guest starred in the role of a character called "The Landlord", for an episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who entitled Knock
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2016· 1 entry
Suchet took on the role of the narrator in the BBC live production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, where he serves as the sole "professional" among the cast
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2015· 1 entry
Celebrity Causes: David Suchet Joins Campaign To Fight Genetic Diseases
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2014· 2 entries
Filmed a documentary about the apostle Saint Peter
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Reprised the role of Benelli in the Australian tour of the play
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2013· 1 entry
Contactmusic.com: David Suchet Had No Idea Poirot Would Change His Life So Profoundly
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2012· 1 entry
Suchet made a documentary for the BBC on his personal hero, Saint Paul, to discover what he was like as a man by charting his evangelistic journey around the Mediterranean
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2011· 2 entries
Digital Spy: David Suchet joins BBC's 'Great Expectations' drama
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2011).
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2008· 1 entry
Took part in the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are
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2007· 1 entry
At the Chichester Festival Theatre, he played Cardinal Benelli in The Last Confession, about the death of Pope John Paul I
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2006· 1 entry
Voiced Poirot in the adventure game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Malice Domestic Poirot Award (2003).
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Suchet starred as the ambitious Cardinal Wolsey in the two-part ITV drama Henry VIII opposite Ray Winstone as Henry VIII and Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn
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2002· 1 entry
Was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
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2001· 1 entry
Had the lead role in the David Yates-directed BBC television serial The Way We Live Now
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1997· 1 entry
Starred in the independent film Sunday
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1993· 1 entry
Played "John" in the drama Oleanna at the Royal Court Theatre
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1989· 1 entry
Took the title role of Hercule Poirot for the long-running television series Agatha Christie's Poirot
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1988· 1 entry
Suchet played Leopold Bloom in the Channel 4 documentary The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, in which some of James Joyce's Ulysses was dramatised
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1987· 1 entry
Suchet played a bigfoot hunter in Harry and the Hendersons
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1986· 1 entry
Suchet underwent a religious conversion after having read Romans 8 in his hotel room
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1985· 2 entries
Suchet played Blott in Blott on the Landscape
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Played Inspector Japp in the Hercule Poirot television film Thirteen at Dinner, which starred Peter Ustinov as the main character that Suchet later played from 1989 to 2013 in the Agatha Christie's Poirot television s
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1973· 1 entry
Suchet had a narrowboat named Prima Donna fitted out to his specification as a residence there
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1972· 1 entry
Suchet first met his wife, Sheila Ferris, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where they were both working; he says that he fell in love with her as soon as he saw her, and that it took a while to persuade her to go out f
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-05-02.
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1932· 1 entry
Trained to be a physician at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1933, and became an obstetrician and gynaecologist
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