In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

On 24 May 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Dr. No. Actor Toby Stephens, who played Die Another Day Bond villain Gustav Graves, played James Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.

Suchet's older brother, John Suchet, is a British television presenter and newsreader, and his father was gynaecologist Jack Suchet.

Suchet was raised without religion, but has been a practising Anglican since 1986, having been confirmed in 2006.

Suchet 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 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.

On 10 October 2008, Suchet was awarded an honorary degree for his contributions to the Arts, from the University of Chichester.

On 7 January 2009, David Suchet was awarded Freedom of the City of London, at the Guildhall in London.

On 13 July 2010, David Suchet was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury.

" In 2012, Suchet made a documentary for the BBC on his personal hero, Saint Paul, to discover what he was like as a man by charting his evangelical journey around the Mediterranean.

Melas also committed a serious tactical blunder, detaching Generalmajor ( GM ) Nimptsch's brigade of 2, 300 hussars and two artillery batteries back over the Bormida bridge to block the corps of General Louis Gabriel Suchet, which was mistakenly reported around 9 am from Acqui Terme to be approaching Alessandria from the south.

Louis Gabriel Suchet, 1st Duc d ' Albufera ( 2 March 1770 – 3 January 1826 ) was a Marshal of France and one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals.

Suchet was recommended for the part by Christie's family, who had seen him appear as Blott in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape.

Suchet himself said to The Strand magazine: " What I did was, I had my file on one side of me and a pile of stories on the other side and day after day, week after week, I ploughed through most of Agatha Christie's novels about Hercule Poirot and wrote down characteristics until I had a file full of documentation of the character.

It was also nominated for Best Television Drama Series in 1990 and 1991, and Suchet was nominated for Best Actor in 1991.

At the first restoration he was made a colonel, but he rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and under his old chief Suchet distinguished himself in the war in the Alps.

An adaptation for television starring David Suchet was broadcast in 1992 as part of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot.

The novel was adapted in 1992 for the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet playing the role of Hercule Poirot.

The novel was adapted as part of the twelfth season of Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet, with Zoë Wanamaker reprising her role as Ariadne Oliver.

On 26 March 2006, an adaptation of the novel was broadcast on ITV with David Suchet as Poirot in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Young returned to Channel 5 in 2002 with a new look and hosted both the 5. 30pm and 7pm editions until her maternity leave began in January 2006, when she was replaced by John Suchet and Helen Fospero.

David Suchet, CBE, ( ; born 2 May 1946 ) is an English actor, known for his work on British television.

Suchet performed the role of John in the play Oleanna at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1993.

At the age of 23, Baker changed professions and enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ), where he studied alongside David Suchet.

* 2011 -– 2012 Apollo Theatre, London ( UK ); with David Suchet ( James Tyrone ) and Laurie Metcalf ( Mary Tyrone ), Trevor White ( Jamie Tyrone ), Kyle Soller ( Edmund Tyrone ) and Rosie Sansom as Cathleen, directed by Anthony Page.

It was poorly received, but revived in 2005 at the Duchess Theatre, London, with David Suchet as the lead part, Gregor Antonescu, to great acclaim.

With the outbreak of warfare in Iraq in 2003, ITV replaced the ITV News at Ten with a special 45-minute long ITV News at Nine every Monday to Friday, hosted by Trevor McDonald in Kuwait City and John Suchet in the ITV News studio in London.

It had its London premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993, directed by Harold Pinter David Suchet played John ( in a Variety Club Award-winning performance ), and Lia Williams played Carol, in a version that used Mamet's original ending from the Cambridge production.

He is the uncle of broadcaster Richard Suchet, who is son of Suchet's youngest brother Peter Suchet.

The first production of 2007 was Pinter's People, a compilation of Harold Pinter sketches of the past 40 years, staged by a company of four, led by Bill Bailey ; later productions of that year were The Lady from Dubuque ( Albee ), starring Maggie Smith ; David Suchet in The Last Confession ; and The Country Wife, starring Toby Stephens, Patricia Hodge and David Haig.

Suchet and his two brothers, Peter and John, attended Grenham House boarding school in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent ; then, after attending another private school, Wellington School in Somerset, he took an interest in acting and joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 18.

Suchet and his animal, the Giant Panda, did not win ; however, they finished in the top three.

In 1972, Suchet first met his wife, Sheila Ferris, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where they were both working ; he says that he fell in love with her as soon as he saw her, and that it took a while to persuade her to go out for a meal with him.

* VII Corps – L ' Armée des Alpes – commanded by Suchet, cantoned at Lyon ;

Jill's vision has led the Watermill to build an excellent reputation worldwide, whilst also encouraging creativity and growth at home ; for example, many of today's successful theatre practitioners began their careers at the Watermill before going on to further their careers elsewhere ( probably most famously Bill Nighy, Sean Bean and David Suchet ); many of these people retain a personal and professional connection with the Watermill Theatre.

John Suchet, a former ITN newscaster, was the presenter of these specials ; he was aided by a team of correspondents including Andrea Catherwood ( who had left ITV News in 2006 ) and Peter Snow, who was an ITN newscaster and correspondent between 1962 and 1979.

A more comprehensive relaunch, with a new set and graphics, came in 1989, at which time John Suchet took over as the main newscaster ; in early 1991 the bulletin returned to the 12: 30pm slot and became News at 12: 30 again.

A television adaptation, starring David Suchet as Poirot ; Philip Jackson as Inspector Japp ; Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon ; Sarah Badel as Mrs Hubbard ; Elinor Morriston as Valerie Hobhouse and Jonathan Firth as Nigel Chapman, was broadcast in 1995 in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot.

* 1946 – David Suchet, English actor

* 1770 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal ( d. 1826 )

* January 3 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal ( b. 1770 )

* March 2 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France ( d. 1826 )

* David Suchet – Hercule Poirot ( 1989 – 2013 )

* Louis Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albufera ( 1770 – 1826 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1811

* Marshal Suchet, duc d ' Albufera – 1813.

** Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet: 1989 – 90 ( 10 ), 1990 – 91 ( 9 ), 1991 – 92 ( 8 ), 1992 – 93 ( 6 ), 1993 – 94 ( 6 ), 1994 – 95 ( 4 ), 1995 – 96 ( 1 ), 1996 – 97 ( 1 ), 1998 – 99 ( 3 ), 1999 – 2000 ( 1 ), 2009 ( 2 ), 2010 ( 3 )

* 2010 – David Suchet for All My Sons

* 1996 – David Suchet for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?