Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Maigret

Heading Home

Prick Up Your Ears

Still Crazy Like a Fox

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Miss Marple

A Night on the Town

The Cleopatras

Britannia Hospital

Private Schulz

Love in a Cold Climate

S.O.S. Titanic

Minder

The Old Crowd

Cold Harbour

The Little Minister

The Way of the World

Murder on the Orient Express

Fall of Eagles

Romance with a Double Bass

Lady Caroline Lamb

Crown Court

The Adventurer

Twelfth Night

Julius Caesar

Vanity Fair

Mystery and Imagination

Alice

The Wednesday Play

Tom Jones

Sir Francis Drake

The Silent Enemy

Loser Takes All

Sunday Night Theatre

Albert John Moffatt (24 September 1922 – 10 September 2012) 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.
Moffatt's parents wished him to follow a career in a bank, but Moffatt secretly studied acting and made his stage debut in 1944. After five years in provincial repertory theatre he made his first London appearance in 1959. In the early 1950s he was cast in small parts in productions headed by John Gielgud and Noël Coward, and achieved increasingly prominent roles over the next decade. He was a member of the English Stage Company, the Old Vic, and the National Theatre companies. His range was considerable, embracing the classics, new plays, revue and pantomime.
Moffatt began broadcasting on radio in 1950 and on television in 1953. His most enduring role was that of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in a long sequence of radio adaptations of her novels, beginning in 1987 and continuing at intervals until 2007. In 1992/3, Moffat played M. Comeliau, the Examining Magistrate, in ITV's Maigret starring Michael Gambon. He was, perhaps, less well known as a film actor but took parts in twelve films between 1956 and 1987.



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