Top 15 Actors Who Played Hercule Poirot

Nine men, one moustache, and no two of them play him the same way. Fussy, funny, mournful or barely recognisable.

1. 1
   David Suchet

   Played Poirot on ITV from 1989 to 2013, starring in 70 episodes that covered every major Poirot story Agatha Christie wrote.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Peter Ustinov

   Played Poirot six times from 1978, starting with Death on the Nile.
   863pts
3. 3
   Ian Holm

   Played Poirot opposite Peggy Ashcroft's Agatha Christie in the 1986 BBC television film Murder by the Book.
   611pts
4. 4
   Francis L. Sullivan

   Played Poirot on the London stage in Black Coffee in 1930 and Peril at End House in 1940, and in the 1937 BBC television play Wasp's Nest.
   611pts
5. 5
   Kenneth Branagh

   Directed and starred in three Poirot films from 2017, moustache included.
   500pts
6. 6
   Jose Ferrer

   Oscar-winning actor who played Poirot in a 1961 television pilot, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, which was never broadcast.
   500pts
7. 7
   Martin Gabel

   Played Poirot in a 1962 episode of General Electric Theater, an American television version of The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.
   500pts
8. 8
   John Malkovich

   Played a bleak, beardless Poirot in the BBC's 2018 The ABC Murders.
   433pts
9. 9
   Konstantin Raikin

   Russian stage star who played Poirot in the 2002 miniseries Poirot's Failure, a faithful four-part adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
   433pts
10. 10
    Charles Laughton

    Created Poirot on stage in Alibi in 1928, the West End adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the first time anyone played the detective.
    357pts
11. 11
    Kotaro Satomi

    Veteran Japanese actor who voiced Poirot in the 2004-2005 anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which ran for 39 episodes.
    357pts
12. 12
    Alfred Molina

    Played a modern-dress Poirot in the 2001 American television Murder on the Orient Express.
    269pts
13. 13
    Orson Welles

    Brought Poirot to American radio in 1939, starring in his own Campbell Playhouse adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on CBS.
    269pts
14. 14
    Albert Finney

    Played Poirot once, in the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express, and got an Oscar nomination for it.
    0pts
15. 15
    Tony Randall

    Played Poirot in the 1965 comedy The Alphabet Murders.
    0pts

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