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David Suchet, OBE (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza. is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...
The Broadcasting Press Guild is a British association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media generally. ...
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by the prolific Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. ...
Matthew Macfadyen Matthew Macfadyen (born 1974) is a British theatre and film actor, best known for his role as MI5 agent Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks. ...
Paloma Baeza , born in 1974 in England, is a British actress. ...
He is also best known for his role as the main character, Hercule Poirot in the British TV drama Poirot, alongside Hugh Fraser and Pauline Moran.[1][2][3] Poirot redirects here. ...
Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ...
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Biography
Early life Suchet was born in London, the son of Joan (née Jarche), an actress, and Jack Suchet, a doctor.[4] Suchet's father was Jewish and his mother was an Anglican; Suchet was raised in the Anglican religion.[5][6] His paternal grandfather lived in Latvia. His surname was shortened from Suchedowitz to Suchet.[7] He also has some French blood on his mother's side.[citation needed] This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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After attending the Wellington School in Somerset, he took an interest in acting and joined the National Youth Theatre at eighteen. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he now serves as a council member. He began his acting career at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Berkshire, and retains a great affection for the place, saying it "fulfils my vision of a perfect theatre". Wellington School, Somerset, is a co-educational public school catering for both boarders and day pupils. ...
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Career In 1973, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1980, he made his first appearance on screen in the 1980 film version of A Tale of Two Cities. In 1985, he played Blott in the television series Blott on the Landscape. He was also awarded the Royal Television Society's award for best male actor for A Song for Europe in 1985. Suchet appeared as Inspector Japp in the 1985 film adaptation of Lord Edgware Dies, screen-name Thirteen at Dinner, with Peter Ustinov portraying Poirot. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ...
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Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. ...
The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...
A Song for Europe can mean: * A former name of the British national pre-selection competition for the Eurovision Song Contest, which is currently called Making Your Mind Up. ...
Chief Inspector Japp is a fictional character of Scotland Yard appearing in many of Agatha Christies novels and stories about Hercule Poirot. ...
Lord Edgware Dies (published in 1933), also known as Thirteen at Dinner, is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie. ...
Lord Edgware Dies (published in 1933), also known as Thirteen at Dinner, is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie. ...
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (IPA: ; April 16, 1921 â March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. ...
Suchet's performance as Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot in the television series Poirot earned him a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination. In preparation for the role he says that he has read every novel and short story and compiled an extensive file on Poirot.[1][2][3] He was given a Variety Club Award in 1994 for best actor for portraying John in David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Suchet later won another Variety Club Award (as well as a 2000 Tony nomination for best performance by a leading actor in a play) for his portrayal of Antonio Salieri in a revival of Amadeus. Poirot redirects here. ...
Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ...
The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards, are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. ...
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The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, in the Chelsea area of London noted for its contributions to modern theatre. ...
Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 â May 7, 1825), was an Italian composer and conductor. ...
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Suchet was nominated for another Royal Television Society award in 2002 for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now, which also earned him a BAFTA nomination. The same year, he was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2003, he played ambitious 16th century English primate Cardinal Wolsey in the 2-part ITV drama Henry VIII opposite Ray Winstone as Henry VIII and Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn. The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by the prolific Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. ...
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Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated English actress, known for her portrayals of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Marla Singer in the film Fight Club, her Oscar-nominated performance as Kate Croy in The Wings...
Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke[1] (1501/1507â19 May 1536) was a Queen Consort of England, the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Henrys marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key player in the political and...
Suchet is vice-president of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust, whose most challenging achievement to date has been securing funding (both via an appeal and from influencing government decisions) concerning the building of the new M6 Toll motorway where it cuts the lines of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened. He has also been officially voted in as chairman of the River Thames Alliance in November 2005.[8] At the July 2006 Annual General Meeting of the River Thames Alliance, he agreed to continue being chairman for another year. Suchet also does a number of small appearances and voiceovers for religious dramatic works in accord with his own Christian faith.[9] He also provided the voice of Aslan in Focus on the Family's radio version of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Not to be confused with Litchfield. ...
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The Lichfield Canal ran from Ogley Junction on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles. ...
When it was built the Hatherton Canal ran 4 miles through 21 locks from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal to the Cannock Extension Canal. ...
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In May 2006, he played the role of the fallen press baron Robert Maxwell in Maxwell, a BBC2 dramatisation of the final 18 months of Maxwell's life.[2][3] During the same year, he voiced Poirot in the adventure game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express. A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company, a significant part of the mass media. ...
For other persons named Robert Maxwell, see Robert Maxwell (disambiguation). ...
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In December 2006, he appeared on the ITV programme Extinct, presented by Sir Trevor McDonald and Zoe Ball, which saw Suchet and seven other well-known celebrities visit critically endangered species of animals and try and plead their case for the viewers so that they would pick up the phone and vote for the animal. The animal with the most votes would receive a large sum of money which would be used to try and save them. Suchet and his animal, the Giant Panda, did not win; however, they finished in the top three. The winners were Pauline Collins and the Bengal Tiger. For other uses, see ITV (disambiguation). ...
Extinct was a British television series that featured eight celebrities highlighting the plight of some of the worlds most endangered species. ...
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Trinomial name Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bengal tiger, or Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris or Panthera tigris bengalensis), is a subspecies of tiger primarily found in Bangladesh, India, and also Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and southern Tibet. ...
At Christmas 2006, he played the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in a BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. From 27 April to 19 May 2007, Suchet performed at The Chichester Festival Theatre in the play The Last Confession.[10] He appears in the disaster film Flood, released in August 2007, as the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at a time when London is devastated by flooding. Suchet appeared on daytime TV chat show Loose Women on 6 February 2008 to talk about his film The Bank Job, in which he played Lew Vogel, alongside Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ...
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Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 â April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ...
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The Last Confession is a stage play by Roger Crane based around the election and death of Pope John Paul I. The play follows Giovanni Benelli (David Suchet) who recounts, during his last confession, his role in the death of John Paul and how this led him to lose his...
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The Bank Job is a 2008 crime film based on a 1971 true-life robbery of a bank in Baker Street, London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. ...
Jason Statham (born on 12 September 1972, in Sydenham, Lewisham, London) is an English actor, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch. ...
Saffron Dominique Burrows (born October 22, 1972 or January 1, 1973[1]) is an English actress. ...
In 2008, Suchet will be starring in the 11th season of the British TV drama Poirot as the title character, and will also appear in the British film thriller Act of God as Benjamin Cisco, alongside Max Brown and Jenny Agutter. Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ...
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Personal life Suchet is the brother of John Suchet, a national news presenter for ITN. He has one son, Rob, and a daughter, Katharine. Suchet plays the clarinet, taught by Maurice Cowlin. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: almost no content, doesnt indicate notability If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ...
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One of his hobbies is photography. His maternal grandfather, James Jarché, was a famous Fleet Street photographer. Suchet first got into photography when his grandfather gave him a Kodak camera as a present. Photography [fÓtÉgrÓfi:],[foÊtÉgrÓfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. ...
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He affectionately calls his fat suit for Hercule Poirot his "armadillo padding". A fatsuit is a bodysuit-like undergarment, sometimes used to thicken a thin actor or actress into into a fat character with prosthetic makeup. ...
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Filmography The Bank Job is a 2008 crime film based on a 1971 true-life robbery of a bank in Baker Street, London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. ...
Flood is a disaster film, with a planned release in August 2007 and directed by Tony Mitchell. ...
For other persons named Robert Maxwell, see Robert Maxwell (disambiguation). ...
Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ...
Poirot redirects here. ...
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Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stokers 1897 novel Dracula produced by Granada Television for WGBH Boston and BBC Wales in 2006. ...
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The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by the prolific Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. ...
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Executive Decision is a 1996 action film released on Friday, March 15, 1996. ...
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Lord Edgware Dies (published in 1933), also known as Thirteen at Dinner, is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie. ...
Chief Inspector Japp is a fictional character of Scotland Yard appearing in many of Agatha Christies novels and stories about Hercule Poirot. ...
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 film about two young American men who sold U.S. security secrets to the Soviet Union. ...
Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. ...
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References - ^ a b Interview: Dillin, John. "The Actor Behind Popular `Poirot'" - The Christian Science Monitor. - March 25, 1992.
- ^ a b c Interview: Dudley, Jane. "Award-winning actor David Suchet plays Robert Maxwell in a gripping account of the dramatic final stage of the media tycoon's life" - BBC.
- ^ a b c Interview: Dudley, Jane. "Inside the mind of a media monster". Yorkshire Post. 27 April 2007.
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/2/David-Suchet.html
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/03/13/basuch13.xml&page=2
- ^ "Suchet's Acts of Faith" - This Is London
- ^ "Obitury of Jack Suchet, Father of David Suchet" - The British Medical Journal
- ^ River Thames Alliance
- ^ Suchet @ Strandmag.com
- ^ The Chichester Festival Theatre
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