Kieron McCarron /Courtesy of Acorn TV/ITV The actor has grown into the role, including perfecting the twinkle in his eye. Suchet has been playing the detective ever since - referring to himself in the third person, always referring to his brain power as his "little grey cells," and invariably holding court at the end of each episode to both solve and explain the mystery at hand.ĭavid Suchet has been playing Poirot since 1989. Suchet began playing Poirot, with his waxed mustache and elegant walking stick, on the PBS Mystery! series way back in 1989. That's because for the 13th and final season of Agatha Christie's Poirot, the show's producers and distributors have staged a sort of new-media bait and switch. In this case, though, it's not a whodunit. But as the final episodes of television's Poirot provide closure, they are, for the moment, somewhat of a mystery themselves. Hercule made his final appearance in 1975, in the novel Curtain - and this month, nearly a century after he first appeared in print, the mystery series completes its lengthy run as a TV series, still starring David Suchet in the title role. It featured fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who proved the most popular of all her mystery-solving characters. 25 on Acorn TV.Īgatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920.
It's difficult to see how this dramatization can be improved upon.David Suchet plays Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. He is not Poirot's mental equal by any means, but admirable in his sympathy, kindness and general embodiment of Englishness, and we can understand Poirot's affection for Hastings. The supporting actors were also very fine, especially Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings - whereas in the stories Hastings, who is usually the narrator, remains a rather sketchy character, here he becomes a genuine person. The writers were responsible for fleshing out the bare bones provided by Christie's stories, but they did it in such a way that the filmed versions flow naturally and seamlessly. Some of the credit for this also goes to the fine writing in the series. Suchet's skill as an actor was such that he was able to turn a rather flat, implausible character (and even fans of Agatha Christie admit that her characters are pretty two-dimensional) into a complex, eccentric but essentially believable person. Every detail of the character was perfect, from the stilted, pedantic delivery to the exquisitely fastidious grooming. Suchet's performance as the fussy little Belgian detective was a joy. Mystery fans were fortunate in the late 1980s to have no less than 3 definitive television performances to enjoy: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, and David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
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