David Suchet: movies and TV shows
David Suchet has 134 credits in the archive: 72 films and 62 TV series, from 1949 to 2025. Highest rated: The BAFTA Awards (10.0/10).
Career timeline
1949 – 2025 · busiest year: 1985 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet | Self - Presenter | TV | 8.0 | 79 |
| 2025 | The Au Pair | George | TV | 6.6 | 79 |
| 2024 | Poirot and More: A Retrospective | Himself | Film | — | 78 |
| 2024 | Poirot and More: A Retrospective | Film | — | 78 | |
| 2023 | Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2019 | His Dark Materials | Kaisa (voice) | TV | 7.8 | 73 |
| 2018 | Press | George Emmerson | TV | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2018 | More Than Words | Self | TV | — | 72 |
| 2018 | Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story | Self | Film | — | 72 |
| 2017 | American Assassin | Director Stansfield | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2017 | Urban Myths | Salvador Dali | TV | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall | Dr Fagan | TV | 5.7 | 71 |
| 2017 | Concorde | Self - Narrator | TV | — | 71 |
| 2016 | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Self (Narrator) | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Oberon | Film | 7.2 | 70 |
| 2016 | This Changed Everything | Narrator | Film | — | 70 |
| 2015 | Capitaine Marleau | Herbert White | TV | 6.1 | 69 |
| 2015 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.5 | 69 |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Fan Show | TV | — | 69 | |
| 2015 | The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage | Lady Bracknell | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 2014 | Effie Gray | Mr. Ruskin | Film | 5.9 | 68 |
| 2014 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone | Film | — | 68 |
| 2013 | Being Poirot | Narrator | Film | 7.8 | 67 |
| 2013 | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator | TV | — | 67 |
| 2013 | The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet | Self - Host / Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Duke of York | TV | 7.4 | 66 |
| 2012 | David Suchet: People I Have Shot | Self - Presenter | Film | — | 66 |
| 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2012 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul | Self - Host | TV | — | 66 |
| 2011 | Great Expectations | Mr. Jaggers | TV | 7.3 | 65 |
| 2011 | Perspectives | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2011 | Hidden | Sir Nigel Fountain | TV | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2011 | All My Sons | Joe Keller | Film | — | 65 |
| 2011 | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 2011 | The Story of Jesus | Narrator | TV | — | 65 |
| 2010 | Going Postal | Reacher Gilt | TV | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2010 | David Suchet on the Orient Express | Himself - Presenter | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 2009 | Diverted | Samuel Stearn | Film | 6.8 | 63 |
| 2009 | Act of God | Dr. Benjamin Cisco | Film | 4.8 | 63 |
| 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panellist | TV | 3.2 | 62 |
| 2008 | The Bank Job | Lew Vogel | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 2007 | Flood | DPM Campbell | Film | 5.3 | 61 |
| 2007 | Maxwell | Robert Maxwell | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self | TV | 4.4 | 60 |
| 2006 | Flushed Away | Rita's Dad (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 2006 | Arthur and the Invisibles | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 2006 | Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing | Film | 5.6 | 60 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | The Landlord | TV | 7.6 | 59 |
| 2005 | Extinct | TV | — | 59 | |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 58 |
| 2004 | Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets | TV | 7.3 | 58 | |
| 2004 | A Bear Named Winnie | General Hallholland | Film | 6.7 | 58 |
| 2004 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Thomas Wolsey | TV | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2003 | The In-Laws | Jean-Pierre Thibodoux | Film | 5.6 | 57 |
| 2003 | Foolproof | Leo Gillette | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2002 | Live from Baghdad | Naji Al-Hadithi | Film | 6.7 | 56 |
| 2002 | NCS: Manhunt | DI John Borne | TV | 7.5 | 56 |
| 2002 | The Stanford Prison Experiment | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 56 |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy | Self | TV | 3.4 | 55 |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind | Edward Palmer | TV | 8.3 | 55 |
| 2001 | The Way We Live Now | Augustus Melmotte | TV | 7.7 | 55 |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD | Film | 7.6 | 55 |
| 2000 | Sabotage!! | Napoleón | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1999 | Wing Commander | Capt. Jason Sansky | Film | 4.8 | 53 |
| 1999 | RKO 281 | Louis B. Mayer | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1998 | A Perfect Murder | Mohamed Karaman | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1998 | Seesaw | Morris Price | TV | 8.0 | 52 |
| 1997 | Solomon | Joab | Film | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1997 | Sunday | Oliver / Matthew Delacorta | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1997 | Solomon | Joab | TV | — | 51 |
| 1997 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix (voice) | TV | — | 51 |
| 1996 | Executive Decision | Nagi Hassan | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1996 | Deadly Voyage | Vlachos | Film | 5.6 | 50 |
| 1996 | Moses | Aaron | TV | 6.9 | 50 |
| 1995 | Cruel Train | Ruben Roberts | Film | 4.3 | 49 |
| 1993 | Der Fall Lucona | Rudi Waltz | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1992 | The Secret Agent | Alfred Verloc | Film | 8.5 | 46 |
| 1991 | The Trouble With Agatha Christie | Self - Actor | Film | 10.0 | 45 |
| 1990 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.1 | 44 |
| 1990 | Separation | Joe | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1990 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | Self | Film | — | 44 |
| 1990 | Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death | Shakespeare | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | TV | 8.2 | 43 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | TV | 8.2 | 43 | |
| 1989 | 4 Play | Carver | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1989 | Long Ago and Far Away | TV | 8.0 | 43 | |
| 1989 | When the Whales Came | Will | Film | 6.4 | 43 |
| 1989 | Nobody Here But Us Chickens | Film | — | 43 | |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Joe | TV | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Leopold Bloom | TV | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1988 | James Joyce's 'Ulysses' | Leopold Bloom | Film | — | 42 |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Bishop | Film | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1988 | A World Apart | Muller | Film | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1987 | Harry and the Hendersons | Jacques Lafleur | Film | 6.1 | 41 |
| 1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Jonathan Gault | Film | 5.3 | 41 |
| 1987 | Cause Célèbre | T.J. O'Connor | Film | 5.6 | 41 |
| 1987 | The Dame Edna Experience | Self | TV | 5.0 | 41 |
| 1986 | Iron Eagle | Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh | Film | 5.6 | 40 |
| 1986 | Murrow | William Shirer | Film | 5.5 | 40 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Vlachos | TV | 7.1 | 39 |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | TV | — | 39 | |
| 1985 | Thirteen at Dinner | Insp. Japp | Film | 5.8 | 39 |
| 1985 | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Dino Grandi | TV | 5.3 | 39 |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | Alex | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | Film | 8.4 | 39 | |
| 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | Blott | TV | 7.5 | 39 |
| 1985 | A Song for Europe | Steve Dyer | Film | 5.3 | 39 |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Colin | TV | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Buller | Film | 6.4 | 38 |
| 1984 | Master of the Game | André d'Usseau | TV | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1984 | Playing Shakespeare | TV | 9.7 | 38 | |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | Mesterbein | Film | 5.6 | 38 |
| 1984 | Freud | Sigmund Freud | TV | 5.0 | 38 |
| 1983 | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Inspector Tsientsin | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1983 | Trenchcoat | Inspector Stagnos | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1983 | Being Normal | Bill | Film | — | 37 |
| 1983 | Red Monarch | Beria | Film | 5.4 | 37 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Edward Teller | TV | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Joe | TV | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1982 | Timewatch | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 36 |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou | Film | 5.8 | 36 |
| 1982 | The Missionary | Corbett | Film | 5.6 | 36 |
| 1981 | The Cause | Reger | Film | — | 35 |
| 1980 | A Tale of Two Cities | John Barsad | Film | 6.1 | 34 |
| 1980 | Oppenheimer | Edward Teller | TV | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Yves Drouard | TV | 6.8 | 33 |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | TV | 5.3 | 32 |
| 1977 | The Professionals | Krivas | TV | 7.6 | 31 |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Detective | TV | 6.1 | 26 |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Leo | TV | 6.1 | 26 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Reger | TV | 6.6 | 24 |
| 1965 | Public Eye | Martin Kulman | TV | 8.2 | 19 |
| 1949 | The BAFTA Awards | Self | TV | 10.0 | 3 |