Albert John Moffatt was an English character actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio in twenty-five productions and for a wide range of stage roles in the West End from the 1950s to the 1980s.
John Moffatt in the 1977 production of The Play's the Thing, by P. G. Wodehouse
Liverpool Playhouse, where Moffatt made his debut
John Gielgud
Noël Coward
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
A statuette of Poirot in Ellezelles, Belgium
Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film, Murder on the Orient Express
Peter Ustinov as Poirot in a 1982 adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun
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