![]() ![]() Having shown his potential in Death on the Nile (a joyously preposterous tale of betrayal, stalking, pistol shots and a slit throat, all set in the heat-frenzied atmosphere of a Nile cruise), Ustinov steps into Evil under the Sun with more Poirot swagger, and finds himself surrounded (as on the Nile), by some of the best British acting talent around at the time. 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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