Hercule Poirot: Quick Facts

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Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot, dressed in a formal black suit with a distinctive curled mustache, sits at a table eating dessert in a scene from Murder on the Orient Express.

Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, wearing a dark suit and holding a book, sits in a patterned train seat in the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express.

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