David Suchet

Movie Actor

David Suchet was born in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom on May 2nd, 1946 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 77, David Suchet biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
David Courtney Suchet, David
Date of Birth
May 2, 1946
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom
Age
77 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$15 Million
Profession
Acting, Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor, Television Actor
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David Suchet Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 77 years old, David Suchet has this physical status:

Height
172cm
Weight
68kg
Hair Color
Salt and Pepper
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
David Suchet Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Anglicanism
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Grenham House, Wellington School, National Youth Theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
David Suchet Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Sheila Ferris
Children
2
Dating / Affair
Sheila Ferris (1972-Present)
Parents
Jack Suchet, Joan Patricia Jarché
Siblings
Peter Suchet (Brother), John Suchet (Older Brother) (Author, Newsreader, TV host, Musical host)
Other Family
James Jarché (Maternal Grandfather) (Fleet Street Photographer), Richard Suchet (Nephew) (Broadcaster)
David Suchet Life

David Suchet (SOO-shay), born 2 May 1946, is an English actor best known for his appearances on British stage and television.

Edward Teller appeared in the TV serial Oppenheimer (1980) and received RTS and BPG awards for his role as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now (2001).

Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's detective, received a BAFTA (BAFTA) nomination in 1991 for his 1991 contribution.

Early life and family

Suchet was born in London's Paddington neighborhood, the son of Joan Patricia (née Jarché; 1916–1992), an actress, and Jack Suchet. Jack immigrated from South Africa to England in 1932, trained to be a physician at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1933, and became an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Suchet's father was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, the son of Izidor Suchedowitz, who was born in Kretinga in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. At some point, the family name was listed as "Schohet," a Yiddish word (from Hebrew shochet) defining the occupation of kosher butcher butchery. When living in South Africa, Suchet's father changed his surname to Suchet. David's mother was born in England and was Anglican (she was of Russian-Jewish descent on her father's side, and on her mother's side, an English Anglican). He was born without faith but later became a practising Anglican in 1986 and was confirmed in 2006.

Suchet and his brothers, John and Peter, attended Grenham House boarding school in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent; after attending another independent school, Wellington School in Somerset, he became interested in acting and joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 16. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he now serves as a council member.

John, his elder brother, is a British television presenter and former ITN newscaster. Rory Suchet, Suchet's nephew, is the RT broadcaster Rory Suchet.

Personal life

In 1972, Suchet first met his wife, Sheila Ferris, at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where they both worked; he says he fell in love with her as soon as he saw her; she was unable to go out for a meal with him; They were married on June 30, 1976; Robert (b. ) has their son. Katherine (b. 81), a retired captain in the Royal Marines, and her daughter, Katherine (b. ), were married in 1981. Physiotherapist 1983-1983; a physiotherapist.

Suchet's brother is John Suchet, a former national news presenter for Five News and host of the evening concert on Classic FM (2020). He is the uncle of broadcaster Richard Suchet, who is the son of Suchet's younger brother, Peter.

James Jarché, Suchet's maternal grandfather, was known for the first photographs of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, as well as his photographs of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney Street. Suchet got interested in photography as a child's birthday gift from his uncle. The Jarchy family was originally identified as Jarchy and were Russian Jews.

Isidor Shokhet, Cheret's paternal grandfather, was a Lithuanian Jew and lived in Kretinga, a Lithuanian city in the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement. Kretinga was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791. Following the end of World War II, the country is now exclusively a part of Lithuania. Of note, the surname of shochet is Yiddish (derived from Hebrew) for "kosher butcher."

Isidor changed his surname to Suchedowitz after escaping violent persecution and moving 16 mi (26 km) away from Memel in the German Empire, but with a Germanized and Slavic twist. As a matter of note, suche means "dry" in Polish. Suched+o+witz is similar to the traditional Polish word construction, with the [root]+wicz and putting the letter o in between as is grammatically required when the last letter of the root is d, h, n, t, among others. For example, Janowicz=Jan+o+wicz becomes German-Yiddish by replacing the word "cz" with "tz," e.g. Janowitz is a film producer who has worked in San Diego.

Since moving to Cape Town, South Africa, the Isidor changed his surname to Suchet.

George Jezzard, Suchet's great-great-grandfather, was a master mariner. He was captain of the brig Hannah, which sank nine miles off the coast of Suffolk during a record-breaking hurricane on May 28, which killed more than 100 vessels and at least 40 people. Local rescuers saved Jezzard and six others of his crew right before their ship sank.

In 1986, Suchet converted after reading Romans 8 in his hotel room; soon after, he was baptized into the Church of England. "I'm a Christian by faith," Suchet wrote in a Strand Magazine interview. I like to believe it follows me through a large portion of my life. I am very much in accordance with the foundings of Christianity and the fundamentals of most faiths, although it does require one to commit oneself to a higher cause. Suchet produced a documentary for the BBC in 2012 on his personal hero, Saint Paul, to find what he was like as a man by charting his evangelistic journey around the Mediterranean. He'll film another documentary, this time on the apostle Saint Peter.

The British Bible Society announced the names of David Suchet and Dr Paula Gooder as the new vice presidents on November 22, 2012. They succeeded as vice presidents John Sentamu (Archbishop of York), Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster), Barry Morgan (Archbishop of Westminster), David F. Ford (Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge), Joel Edwards (International Director of the Micah Challenge) and Lord Alton of Liverpool. Suchet achieved a 27-year goal to make an audio recording of The Bible's New International Version, which was released on April 24, 2014.

Suchet was one of 200 public figures to write a letter to The Guardian in August 2014, expressing their displeasure with Scotland's decision to remain part of the United Kingdom in the October 2014 referendum.

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David Suchet Career

Career

Suchet began his acting career at the Gateway Theatre, Chester (1969) and then appeared in many reps, including Worthing, Birmingham, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Liverpool Playhouse, and the Watermill Theatre. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973. In 1981–82, he appeared in Richard II opposite Alan Howard. In the drama Oleanna at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993, Suchet appeared as "John" in the drama Oleanna. It was directed by Harold Pinter, and Lia Williams appeared as "Carol" in this film. In the Kempinski play Separation, he made his West End debut opposite Saskia Reeves opposite the Comedy Theatre in 1987. In the West End production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, he appeared opposite Dame Diana Rigg in 1996-97. In the Broadway play Amadeus, he appeared as Salieri from 1998 to 2000. He appeared in The Last Confession of Cardinal Benelli in 2007. In 2014, he reprised Benelli's role in the Australian tour of the play.

Lady Bracknell has been appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde at the Valiant Theatre in London since June 2015 and on tour. Suchet's three-week stay at the Harold Pinter Theatre in January 2022 was a retrospective.

In 1988, Suchet appeared Leopold Bloom in Channel 4's The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, in which some of James Joyce's Ulysses were chronicled. Suchet made an appearance in the penultimate episode of the television series Tales of the Unexpected in 1988. In the episode A Time To Die, he appeared as Yves Drouard, a scheming adulterer.

He portrayed Hercule Poirot in the long-running television series Agatha Christie's Poirot in 1989. Suchet's book Poirot and Me, Suchet writes about how prior Poirot actor Sir Peter Ustinov contacted him one day and told him that Suchet could play Poirot and would be good at it. Suchet then talked with Brian Eastman of ITV, who gave him a copy of the books to read. "I'd finally realized that I'd never really seen the person I was reading about on the screen..." He was more elusive, more pedantic, and, in general, more human than the one I'd seen on the television." Still uncertain, Suchet rang John, who advised him against doing so, naming Poirot "a bit of a joke, not a buffoon." It's not you at all." Suchet took his brother's advice as a challenge and accepted the role. He wrote a five-page character study of Poirot describing 93 particular aspects of his life in preparation. Suchet said he took the list on set with him and "give a copy to every director on a Poirot film." Suchet continued to participate in the adaptations of every book and short story based on Agatha Christie's character.

He appeared in the David Yates-directed BBC television serial The Way We Live Now in 2001 and, in April 2002, he played George Carman, the real-life barrister.

In 2003, Suchet appeared in the two-part ITV drama Henry VIII opposite Ray Winstone as Henry VIII and Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn. In Maxwell, a BBC2 dramatization of the remaining 18 months of Maxwell's life, he appeared as the fallen press baron Robert Maxwell. He appeared in the adventure game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express for the same year.

In a BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, he played vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing at Christmas 2006. He appeared in the disaster film Flood, which was released in August 2007, as the UK's Deputy Prime Minister at a time when London is devastated by floods. On February 6, 2008, Suchet appeared on daytime TV chat show Loose Women to discuss his film The Bank Job, in which he played Lew Vogel, alongside Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. He appeared on the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are in 2008, which was an honor.

Diverted, a 2009 CBC made-for-TV film, starred him. Reacher Gilt, the main protagonist of Going Postal's 2010 sky TV adaptation based on Pratchett's book of the same name, starred him. Benjamin Cisco appeared in Act of God as Benjamin Cisco. In 1987, Suchet was a bigfoot hunter in Harry and the Hendersons. He appeared in two Michael Douglas films, A Perfect Murder and In-Laws. He appeared in the independent film on Sunday in 1997.

Suchet appeared in and narrated two BBC Television documentaries between 2014 and 2015, extending the Mediterranean and inspired by the apostles' lives and travels. St. Peter and St. Paul are both apostles.

Suchet played the role of the narrator in Peter Pan Goes Wrong's BBC live production in which he appears as the sole "professional" of the cast. During one point of the show, when one of the actors is electrocuted, he is asked to distract the audience. Captain Hook's mustache will be restored to him and begin behaving like Poirot, as well as delivering his lines in a Belgian accent. This causes the director (who is also playing Captain Hook) to retrieve the mustache and dismiss Suchet.

Suchet appeared in "The Landlord" in an episode of Evelyn Waugh's tenth series of Doctor Who in 2017, and guest star David Coveney appeared as Dr Fagan in the BBC1 version of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, while guest starred in the role of "The Landlord."

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www.dailymail.co.uk, November 3, 2023
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www.dailymail.co.uk, November 2, 2023
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www.dailymail.co.uk, October 24, 2023
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