I've never felt he was right for the role

We watched Death on the Nile again last night. Another Agatha Christie with every person possibly the killer. Whew! Still, as much as I've always loved her books, and as much as I've like Peter Ustinov as an actor, I've never felt that he was right for the role of Hercule Poirot. Even before David Suchet played the role on television and became the quintessential Poirot, I just never felt that he fit the picture that the author wrote - short, egg-shaped head and so on. As well, he seems to be playing the part with a touch of the comic and that's not something her books ever expressed about the character, at least not in the expressive way he played the part.

A good, enjoyable film none-the-less, but like Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) British television has firmly established certain actors as the ones that seem most true to the books...