David Suchet

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David Suchet [ˈsuːʃeɪ], CBE (born May 2, 1946 in London ) is a British actor .

Life

Suchet is the second of three sons of a gynecologist and a London stage actress. His older brother John is a television journalist and his younger brother Peter is an advertising manager. In September 2008, David Suchet researched on the BBC genealogy television series Who do you think you are? his extended family tree.

Suchet was already interested in the theater as a teenager, after his mother had occasionally taken him to her performances. After graduating from school, however, he first began studying medicine like his father. However, when he fell through the dreaded Physikum , he broke off his studies, switched to the National Youth Theater in the RCT and from then on aimed for a professional stage career. He studied acting for three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and after graduating from the Gateway Theater in Chester, initially worked as a stage assistant.

Suchet had first guest appearances in television series such as No Pardon for Guardian Angels , The Professionals and The Unbelievable Stories by Roald Dahl . But Suchet became best known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot in the 70-part television series Agatha Christie's Poirot , which was produced from 1989 to 2013. He previously played "Inspector Japp" alongside Sir Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot in the television film Mord à la Carte (1985).

His portrayal of "Rudi Waltz" in The Lucona Case (1993) stood out in the cinema . The film is based on a true story , the scandal surrounding the Austrian entrepreneur Udo Proksch .

Suchet has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1973 , where he has appeared in a large number of performances including King Lear , Romeo and Juliet , What You Want and Richard II, as well as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . He played Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus at theaters in Los Angeles and on Broadway as well as the cardinal in the Vatican thriller The Last Confession at the Theater Royal Haymarket in London. In Germany, Suchet was seen as one of the opponents of Jason Statham in the movie Bank Job (2008) .

David Suchet has been married since 1976 and has two children.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1985: RTS Television Award for Best Actor in A Song for Europe
  • 1986: RTS Television Award for Best Actor in The Way We Live Now
  • 1988: CableACE Award nomination - The Last Innocent Man
  • 1989: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actor in A World Apart
  • 1991: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actor in Agatha Christie's Poirot
  • 1996: London Critics' Circle Theater Award (Drama Theater) for best actor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • 1998: Istanbul International Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Sunday
  • 2000: Tony Award (nomination) for his role as Salieri in Amadeus
  • 2002: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
  • 2002: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actor in The Way We Live Now
  • 2002: Royal Television Society Award for portraying Augustus Melmotte in the BBC drama The Way We Live Now
  • 2002: Nominated for the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor for The Way We Live Now
  • 2007: Variety Club Award for portraying Cardinal Benelli in The Last Confession
  • 2008: Winner of the International Emmy for Best Actor for Maxwell
  • 2008: Nominated for the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor for Maxwell
  • 2009: Gemini Award for Diverted
  • 2010: Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television-Produced Feature Film in Agatha Christie's Poirot
  • 2011: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
  • 2011: Whatsonstage.Award (Audience Award) for his role in All my Sons
  • 2011: Critic's Circle Theater Award for his role in All my Sons
  • 2014: Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television-Produced Feature Film in Agatha Christie's Poirot
  • 2015: Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries in Agatha Christie's Poirot

German dubbing voices

Suchet has been dubbed for the German versions of his films by several speakers over the years . Uli Krohm and Joachim Kerzel lent him their voice most often , for example in Das Eulenhaus and Einsame Decision .

Web links

Commons : David Suchet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schmitz: The professionals. On the trail of the CI5 - the big book for the series. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-704-2 , pp. 122–126.
  2. ↑ Entry in the German synchronous file (last accessed: October 6, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Seek, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England