Agatha Christie wrote 33 Poirot Novels and 51 short stories so there is plenty material for TV and Film producers to work with. Indeed Christie’s novels or stories have been dramatised for theatre (by herself), feature films, TV series and most recently in the new films being shown at cinemas and starring Kennth Branagh. One of Christie’s most famous works ‘The Murder on the Orient Express’ has been developed at least four times into a film and with all these productions comes a lot of actors who have endeavoured to capture the elusive charm, popularity, neatness and dare we say conceit – of this most famous Belgium detective.

Everyone has their own personal favourite Poirot actor such as Ustinov and Suchet but there have been many other actors who have played Poirot and the full list is given below. While some actors only played the great detective once such as Albert Finney in the 1974 film production of Murder on the Orient Express, others had regular appearances as Poirot like John Borras in the 8 Spanish adaptations he starred in and Peter Ustinov’s 6 films.