| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/davidsuchet.jpg]] |
| 2 | ->''"The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theatre, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do."'' |
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| 4 | [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]] David Courtney Suchet, CBE (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor with an extensive career on stage and television. |
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| 6 | He is most famous for playing Creator/AgathaChristie's literary hero, the [[GreatDetective great Belgian detective]] Literature/HerculePoirot, in the long-running [[Series/{{Poirot}} ITV series and television films]]. |
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| 8 | His portrayal of Poirot is considered by many as the definitive for the character, and he is to this day the only actor who has played in adaptations of ''every'' story of Agatha Christie's Poirot canon, doing so over nearly twenty-five years. |
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| 10 | !!Works on TV Tropes: |
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| 12 | * ''Series/TheProfessionals'' (1978) as Krivas (episode "Where the Jungle Ends") |
| 13 | * ''Film/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|1982}}'' (1982) as Clopin Trouillefou |
| 14 | * ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'' (1984) as Buller |
| 15 | * ''Literature/BlottOnTheLandscape'' (1985 TV adaptation) as Blott |
| 16 | * ''Film/IronEagle'' (1986) as Ministry of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh |
| 17 | * ''Film/HarryAndTheHendersons'' (1987) as Jacques [=LaFleur=] |
| 18 | * ''[[Series/{{Poirot}} Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' (1989–2013) as Hercule Poirot |
| 19 | * ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'' (1996) as Nagi Hassan |
| 20 | * ''Film/APerfectMurder'' (1998) as Mohamed Karaman |
| 21 | * ''Film/WingCommander'' (1999) as Captain Jason "Jay" Sansky |
| 22 | * ''Film/TheInLaws'' (2003 remake) as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux |
| 23 | * ''Film/{{Foolproof}}'' (2003) as Leo "The Touch" Gillette |
| 24 | * ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' (2006) as Rita's Dad |
| 25 | * ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'' (2006) as the Narrator |
| 26 | * ''Film/TheBankJob'' (2008) as Lew Vogel |
| 27 | * ''Literature/GoingPostal'' (2010) as Reacher Gilt |
| 28 | * ''[[Series/TheHollowCrown The Hollow Crown: Richard II]]'' (2012) as Duke of York |
| 29 | * ''Theatre/PeterPanGoesWrong'' (2016) AsHimself / The Narrator |
| 30 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' (2017) as the Landlord (episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E4KnockKnock Knock Knock]]") |
| 31 | * ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'' (2019) as Kaiser |
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| 33 | !!Tropes in his works: |
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| 35 | * PlaysGreatEthnics: He has played quite a few Middle-Eastern characters while he's of Lithuanian Jewish and French descent. |
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