As an actor, David Suchet has spent his working life assuming ... David was thrilled to discover that John Cragie was the great-grandson of the John Cragie who had rescued his great-great ...

Over the last quarter century, David Suchet became the definitive Hercule Poirot, starring as the fussy but perceptive private detective in 70 screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries.

David knew that, like Amelie and Arnold, the Suchets of his father's line also had eastern European Jewish origins. He thought that the name Suchet perhaps derived from what he thought was the ...