Poirot
Taken at the Flood
Sunday 2 April 2006 on ITV1

Gordon Cloade marries a young widow, but within days he is killed by a gas explosion in his home, leaving no will, so that his fortune all goes to the new Mrs Cloade. But then Poirot has a visit from a member of the family who claims she has information from the spirit world that the rich Mrs...

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David's son Robert graduated from the University of Birmingham in July 2002. (edit) David Suchet converted to Roman Catholicism, his father was Jewish, his mother was Anglican.

(edit) David Suchet's voice can be heard in the animated movie Flushed Away. He's Rita's father. (edit) David plays the clarinet. (edit) David Suchet is vice-president of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust. (edit)

David Suchet: (About photography) Let the camera be an extension of your eye. How you see is how you photograph. (edit)

(about wearing the Poirot fat suit)

David Suchet: I'm a 34" waist, and Poirot is about a 43", and he must be at least sixteen or seventeen stones, and no way am I going to do a Robert de Niro, and put that weight on my own frame. I once actually did do something like that, in a film called Sunday, and I played a New Yorker who was supposed to weight 27 stones. I just ate and ate and ate - everything that I shouldn't have done. I find it very easy to pile it on - but God, it was the best part of a year in getting it all off again, and it was agony. Never again! (edit)

(about perfecting the Poirot walk)

David Suchet: When I did the film testing, I had been cast and we did some film tests just to see how it all looked -- the make-up and the costume and things before we actually went into proper filming. The producer, Brian Eastman, and I sat down to have a look at what we'd shot, and we were sort of pleased that the character was there, and he said, "Well, you know, it's nearly there, but there's something missing. There's something missing." He said, "You know, the funny thing is, David I don't know what it is. It's something to do with the movement. And I turned around and said, "Could it be the way I'm walking because maybe I'm walking too much like me and it's not reflecting the character." So we watched a bit again and he said, "You know, I think you're right." (edit) David Suchet: I like things to be symmetrical. If I put two things on the mantelpiece, they have to be exactly evenly spaced. But I'm nowhere near as fanatical as Poirot. I don't need the same sized eggs for breakfast! (edit) (on filming Murder in Mesopotamia)
David Suchet: It was undoubtedly the most difficult shoot of my entire career because of the extreme heat. The temperature reached 139 degrees, and my costume consists of a three-piece wool suit, leather gloves, a hat, a wing collar, bow tie, and full body padding. I had to drink four litres of water every day because I was sweating so much, but even so I nearly fainted on several occasions. (edit)

Star
Blott on the Landscape Blott	NCS Manhunt D.I. John Borne
Oxbridge Blues Colin	Poirot Hercule Poirot
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997) voice of the Phoenix

Guest Star
Aspel & Company Angela Lansbury, Julie Walters, David Suchet Himself	Breakfast 3 February 2005 Himself
Children in Need 1993 [2 Parts] Himself	GMTV Thursday 8th April Himself
Hallmark Hall Of Fame The Hunchback of Notre Dame Trouillefou	King & Castle Partners Devas

Other
Poirot The Hollow Associate Producer	Poirot Sad Cypress Associate Producer
Poirot Five Little Pigs Associate Producer	Poirot Death on the Nile Associate Producer