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.

28 Blu-ray discs.David Suchet plays Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. This 28-disc set includes all 13 series of the beloved mystery, remastered and restored to original U.K.

Follow Hercule Poirot and his 'little grey cells' from his very first case to his final curtain call. These 70 episodes of the hit mystery seen on public television are rich with period detail and feature some of film and television's brightest stars, including Michael Fassbender, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Damian Lewis, Tim Curry, Iain Glen, Christopher Eccleston, Aiden Gillen, Peter Capaldi, Lindsay Duncan, Hugh Bonneville, and many more. Spanning 25 years and the entire Poirot canon, David Suchet's iconic portrayal of Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective has been hailed as 'one of TV's greatest achievements' ( Telegraph, U.K.).

Poirot final curtain