Richard Nobel

In Drame en trois actes, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Three Act Tragedy for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Richard Nobel is an actor, friend of Herbert Michel and Macha Semenoff. Among other things, he is apparently very wealthy (as seen by the scale of the lavish party he organises). He is patron of Macha's acting school and supports it financially. He is the second person to be poisoned and is a rough parallel of Bartholomew Strange. Richard Nobel is portrayed by Nicolas Marié.

Like Sir Bartholomew, Richard is one of the few people who know that Herbert, the parallel of Charles Cartwright is already married to Macha Semenoff and therefore ineligible to marry Marlene, who in the show, is the parallel of Egg. As such, when Herbert decides to murder Macha to clear the way to marry Marlene, he also has to kill Richard first. Like Sir Bartholomew, Richard also throws a party. Here, however, it is not a dinner party, but an outdoor event where he puts on a stage play with the students of Macha's acting school, including Alice Avril. Richard himself plays a part on the stage and collapses after taking a drink.

After Richard is killed, Alice and Grégoire, another acting student, recall seeing Richard being quite friendly and joking with a servant. Grégoire thought this was quite unusual as Richard was normally quite nasty to his servants. Laurence later determines that this was Herbert Michel in disguise, just like Sir Charles Cartwright in the original. Herbert therefore, contrary to his alibi, had the opportunity to poison the drink.