![]() ![]() From Death on the Nile, through Evil under the Sun, to Thirteen at Dinner, to Dead Man’s Folly, and from Murder in Three Acts to Appointment with Death in 1988 – just a year before the start of the grand televisual run of Suchet’s Poirot began - Ustinov ruled the role. Recent additions to the Poirot players have included Kenneth Branagh, whose Poirot moustache almost out-acted him in a take that saw Poirot as not just excessively fussy, but actually somewhere on the autistic spectrum, and John Malkovich, whose take was relatively stripped-back and gave the character a new, significantly leaner-than-usual sense of focus.īut for all that Suchet was more or less definitive the moment he stepped on screen, for a full decade from 1978-1988, the definitive on-screen Poirot was Peter Ustinov. ![]() There’s a fairly wide-ranging consensus that David Suchet is more or less the “definitive” Poirot on screen, appearing in the whole of Christie’s Poirot canon between 19. ![]() ![]() Over the century since he first appeared in print in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, there have been a whole lot of actors who have given the world their version of Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. ![]()
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