| Movie | 1998 | A Perfect Murder | Mohamed Karaman | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Stanford Prison Experiment | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1985 | Thirteen at Dinner | Insp. Japp | |
| Movie | 2006 | Flushed Away | Rita's Dad (voice) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Flood | Deputy Prime Minister Campbell | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Bank Job | Lew Vogel | |
| Movie | 1987 | Harry and the Hendersons | Jacques Lafleur | |
| Movie | 2002 | Live from Baghdad | Naji Al-Hadithi | |
| Movie | 2003 | Foolproof | Leo Gillette | |
| Movie | 2009 | Diverted | Samuel Stearn | |
| Movie | 2000 | RKO 281 | Louis B. Mayer | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou | |
| Movie | 1997 | Sunday | Oliver / Matthew Delacorta | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Missionary | Corbett | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1983 | Red Monarch | Beria | |
| Movie | 1987 | Cause Célèbre | T.J. O'Connor | |
| Movie | 2000 | Sabotage!! | Napoleón | |
| Movie | 2014 | Effie Gray | Mr. Ruskin | |
| Movie | 1990 | Separation | Joe | |
| Movie | 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD | |
| Movie | 2006 | Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing | |
| Movie | 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | | |
| Movie | 1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Jonathan Gault | |
| Movie | 1989 | Nobody Here But Us Chickens | | |
| Movie | 2023 | Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Act of God | Dr. Benjamin Cisco | |
| Movie | 1995 | Cruel Train | Ruben Roberts | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1983 | Trenchcoat | Inspector Stagnos | |
| Movie | 1996 | Executive Decision | Nagi Hassan | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | Alex | |
| Movie | 1983 | Being Normal | Bill | |
| Movie | 1993 | Der Fall Lucona | Rudi Waltz | |
| Movie | 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Bishop | |
| Movie | 2018 | More Than Words | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | Deadly Voyage | Vlachos | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage | Lady Bracknell | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet | Self - Host / Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2023 | Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story | Self | |
| Movie | 1985 | A Song for Europe | Steve Dyer | |
| Movie | 2004 | A Bear Named Winnie | General Hallholland | |
| Movie | 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Oberon | |
| Movie | 1999 | Wing Commander | Capt. Jason Sansky | |
| Movie | 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Buller | |
| Movie | 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | | |
| Movie | 1986 | Murrow | William Shirer | |
| Movie | 2007 | Maxwell | Robert Maxwell | |
| Movie | 2016 | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1991 | The Trouble With Agatha Christie | Self - Actor | |
| Movie | 1988 | James Joyce's 'Ulysses' | Leopold Bloom | |
| Movie | 2017 | American Assassin | Director Stansfield | |
| Movie | 2003 | The In-Laws | Jean-Pierre Thibodoux | |
| Movie | 1980 | A Tale of Two Cities | John Barsad | |
| Movie | 1988 | A World Apart | Muller | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | Mesterbein | |
| Movie | 2010 | David Suchet on the Orient Express | Himself - Presenter | |
| Movie | 1989 | When the Whales Came | Will | |
| Movie | 2006 | Arthur and the Invisibles | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2013 | Being Poirot | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2016 | This Changed Everything | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2012 | David Suchet: People I Have Shot | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2011 | All My Sons | Joe Keller | |
| Movie | 2014 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone | |
| Movie | 1986 | Iron Eagle | Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Cause | Reger | |
| Movie | 1997 | Solomon | Joab | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Secret Agent | Alfred Verloc | |
| Movie | 1990 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix (voice) | |
| TV Show | 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | 70 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Yves Drouard | 1 |
| TV Show | 1972 | The Protectors | Detective | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Richard & Judy | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1972 | The Protectors | Leo | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets | | 2 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Extinct | | 5 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Going Postal | Reacher Gilt | 2 |
| TV Show | 2001 | The Way We Live Now | Augustus Melmotte | 4 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Oppenheimer | Edward Teller | 7 |
| TV Show | 2012 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul | Self - Host | 2 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Public Eye | Martin Kulman | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Concorde | Self - Narrator | 2 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Great Expectations | Mr. Jaggers | 3 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Blott on the Landscape | Blott | 6 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Hidden | Sir Nigel Fountain | 4 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Timewatch | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Colin | 2 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Dame Edna Experience | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Doctor Who | The Landlord | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | The Jesus Storybook Bible | Narrator | 44 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Murder in Mind | Edward Palmer | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter | Self - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Freud | Freud | 6 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Master of the Game | André d'Usseau | 9 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Urban Myths | Salvador Dali | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Playing Shakespeare | | 9 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Press | George Emmerson | 6 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Seesaw | Morris Price | 3 |
| TV Show | 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Duke of York | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Henry VIII | Thomas Wolsey | 2 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panellist | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Capitaine Marleau | Herbert White | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | His Dark Materials | Kaisa (voice) | 7 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Decline and Fall | Dr. Fagan | 3 |
| TV Show | 2002 | NCS: Manhunt | DI John Borne | 6 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Long Ago and Far Away | | 3 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet | Self - Presenter | 5 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Theatre Night | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Reger | 1 |
| TV Show | 2025 | The Au Pair | George | 4 |
| TV Show | 1988 | The Play on One | Joe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Moses | Aaron | 2 |
| TV Show | 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Leopold Bloom | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Perspectives | | 2 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | The Phoenix | 6 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Inspector Tsientsin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1977 | The Professionals | Krivas | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | The Story of Jesus | Narrator | 2 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Solomon | Joab | 2 |
| TV Show | 1949 | The BAFTA Awards | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | The One Show | Self | 1 |
