Poirot and Me
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screen tests for Poirot 35–6, 37
shares colds and illnesses with Poirot 119
stage management career 14
star status, uncomfortable with 44
teaches drama in America 154
theatricality 60
work, philosophy of 123
Suchet, Jack (father) 13, 15–16, 38, 76, 136, 210
Suchet, Joan (mother) 134, 135–7
Suchet, John (brother) 16, 18–19, 38, 135
Suchet, Katherine (daughter) 15, 67, 133, 163, 175, 178–9, 179
Suchet, Peter (brother) 16, 135
Suchet, Robert (son) 15, 67, 133, 163, 165, 175, 178–9
Suchet, Sheila (wife) 3, 5, 6, 7, 38–9, 41–2, 66, 68, 71–2, 81, 102, 103, 104, 116, 122–3, 133, 136, 137, 148, 149–50, 153, 163, 166, 175, 178–9, 191, 216, 219, 227, 240, 246, 262, 272, 273, 287, 288
Sue Ryder hospice 210
Sullivan, Francis L. 80, 212
Sumpter, Donald 129
Sutton, Joe 251
Swinson, Antonia 69
Sykes, Eric 256–7
Taken at the Flood 232, 233, 277
The Taming of the Shrew 136
Taylor, Elizabeth 176
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 21
Tessler, Jeff 230
Thaw, John 22
The Third Floor Flat 60, 61–2
The Third Girl 244–5, 250, 267
Thirteen at Dinner 16, 189
This Story of Yours 42
Thorpe, Jeremy 201
Three Act Tragedy 254–5
Three Blind Mice 160
see also The Mousetrap
time-shifting plot device 193
Timmer, Damien 204, 205, 206, 226, 230, 243, 252
Timon of Athens 106–9
Tinker, Jack 166
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 112–13
Treves, Freddie 115
Trevor, Austin 188
Triangle at Rhodes 62, 63, 105–6
Tripp, Jack 158
Trollope, Anthony 198, 199–200, 201, 237–8
Turner Miller, Sian 288–9
The Underdog 139
Unwin, Paul 206
Ustinov, Peter 16–17, 18, 106, 142, 189, 190, 195, 215, 252, 254, 279
Valentine, Anthony 225, 227
Vaughan, Tom 284, 289
Vaughn, Robert 15
The Veiled Lady 82–3
viewing figures 73, 105, 173, 174
vintage cars and planes 49, 50, 64, 81, 91, 130
Wallace, Edgar 274
Walter, Harriet 243, 250
Wanamaker, Zoë 228, 229, 232, 241, 250, 256, 267, 272, 279
Wansell, Geoffrey 29, 69
Warmsley Heath 233
Warner, Craig 238
Wasps’ Nest 111–12, 113
Waterman, Ivan 104
Watkinson, Douglas 141, 164
Watson, James 221
Watts, James 187
Waugh, Evelyn 161
The Way We Live Now 198, 199–201, 237–8
Weeks, Honeysuckle 232
West, Sam 262
West, Timothy 256
What a Performance 157–9, 165–6, 172
What’s On Stage award 267
When the Whales Came 22, 28–9, 47
Whitehaven mansions 60
Whittaker, Stephen 129–30
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 176–8
Wilby, James 244
wildlife documentary 236–7
Williams, John 180
Williams, Lia 153, 155, 156
Wilson, Andy 215, 233, 277
Wilson, Harold 29
Winkleman, Sophie 206
Winston, Jaime 253
Winstone, Ray 253
Wodehouse, P.G. 256
Woodward, Sarah 130
Woodward, Tim 233
A World Apart 15
Yelland, David 58–9, 231, 233, 250–1
Yelland, Hannah 231
The Yellow Iris 139–40
Zola, Emile 166