Name
Michael Cochrane
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1947-05-19 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Michael Cochrane (born 19 May 1947) is an English actor who specialises in playing upper class characters, sometimes with a suaveness that hides their villainy.
He has had many television and radio roles including Oliver Sterling in the Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, The Pallisers (1974), Wings (1977-78), The Citadel (1983), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1984), No Job for a Lady, The Chief (1990-1995), and as Sir Henry Simmerson in the Sharpe series.
He has twice appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, first as Charles Cranleigh in the serial "Black Orchid" (1982) and later as Redvers Fenn-Cooper in "Ghost Light" (1989). He was later associated with Doctor Who when he appeared in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama "No Man's Land".
He featured in the ITV science fiction series The Uninvited. In 2008 he appeared in the soap opera Doctors as Daniel's solicitor and in 2009 in Margaret as MP Alan Clark. He appeared in the situation comedy Perfect World as the sex-obsessed marketing director.
Cochrane also starred in the 2002 film Offending Angels with Susannah Harker and Shaun Parkes. He is married to the actress Belinda Carroll.
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- 1984 Frankenstein as Henry Clervell
- 1997 The Saint as Cold Fusion Broker
- 2002 The Falklands Play as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
- 1991 Tell Me That You Love Me as Geoff
- 1991 A Murder of Quality as Charles Hecht
- 2000 Longitude as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
- 1993 Sharpe's Eagle as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 2004 A Different Loyalty as Dick Madsen
- 1995 Sharpe's Sword as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1996 Sharpe's Regiment as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1984 Real Life as Lipton
- 2008 Sharpe's Peril as Simmerson
- 1989 The Return of Sam McCloud as Geraint Davies
- 2022 Living as Sir James
- 2012 Run For Your Wife as Man on Bus
- 1990 Number One Gun as Flash Fairmaid
- 2012 Panto! as Johnny
- 2009 Margaret as Alan Clark
- 2024 To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
- 2015 We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as Arnold Ridley
- 2008 Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Sir Waldron Smithers
- 1992 A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Winston Churchill
- 1977 The Country Wife as Sparkish
- 2005 The Government Inspector as Sir Richard Dearlove
- 1997 Sharpe: The Legend as Simmerson
- 2011 The Iron Lady as William
- 2002 The Cry as Nathaniel Wakely
- 2003 Reversals as Derek Barry
- 2015 Coalition as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
- 1989 Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
- 1978 Daphne Laureola as Bill
- 1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Charles Masterman
- 2006 Sharpe's Challenge as Simmerson
- 2018 RSC Live: Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- 1997 Incognito as Detective Inspector Deeks
- 2001 The Innocent as Harold Haig
- 1984 Hay Fever as Sandy Tyrell
- 1983 Ascendancy as Officer
- 2006 HG Wells: War with the World as Minister
- 1999 Nancherrow as Sir George Rawlings
- 2005 Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore as Lord Lyttleton
- 2014 Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland as Ian MacGregor
- 1981 Escape to Victory as Farrell
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier as Stephen
- 1982 Doctor Who: Black Orchid as Lord Cranleigh
- 2011 Holy Flying Circus as Malcolm Muggeridge
- 1997 The Uninvited ( 4 episodes )
- 1963 Doctor Who ( 1 episode ) as Lord Cranleigh
- 2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel ( 4 episodes ) as Captain Smith
- 1977 Wings ( 25 episodes ) as Charles Gaylion
- 2010 Downton Abbey ( 5 episodes ) as Reverend Travis
- 1985 Howards' Way ( 1 episode ) as Pierre Challon
- 1993 Sharpe ( 4 episodes ) as Sir Henry Simmerson
- 2003 Rosemary & Thyme ( 1 episode ) as Franklin Danvers
- 2013 Man Down ( 1 episode )
- 2000 Monarch of the Glen ( 1 episode )
- 1987 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries ( 3 episodes ) as Swithun Riding
- 2008 Mutual Friends ( 1 episode ) as Judge
- 2003 Keen Eddie ( 1 episode )
- 1976 Laurence Olivier Presents ( 1 episode ) as Bill
- 1998 The Ambassador ( 1 episode )
- 2014 The Musketeers ( 1 episode )
- 1997 Jonathan Creek ( 1 episode ) as Owen Glendower
- 2002 Wire in the Blood ( 1 episode ) as Judge Hynes
- 2016 The Crown ( 1 episode ) as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
- 1992 A Touch of Frost ( 2 episodes ) as Babcock, HMI
- 1994 Pie in the Sky ( 1 episode ) as Julian Tubbs
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Derek Lightfoot
- 1999 Nancherrow ( 2 episodes )
- 1980 Love in a Cold Climate ( 8 episodes ) as Cedric Hampton
- 1983 Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ( 1 episode ) as Dennis Radcliffe
- 1994 Wycliffe ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Price
- 2022 I Hate You ( 1 episode ) as Leonard
- 2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as Ross Vaughan
- 2012 Call the Midwife ( 1 episode ) as Sir Brigham Aylward
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Stephen Quinn
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Cunningham
- 2019 Sticks and Stones ( 3 episodes ) as Clayton
- 2021 The Outlaws ( 3 episodes ) as Mr Kingsley
- 2002 The Cry ( 4 episodes ) as Nathaniel Weekly
- 2007 My Spy Family ( 13 episodes ) as Lord Bollingstock
- 2016 Agatha Raisin ( 1 episode ) as Sir Desmond
- 1984 The Far Pavilions ( 2 episodes ) as Crimpley
- 2013 The Escape Artist ( 2 episodes ) as Judge
- 1991 The Darling Buds of May ( 1 episode ) as Wing Commander Honeyman
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Sparkish
- 1990 The Chief ( 17 episodes ) as Nigel Crimmond
- 1990 No Job for a Lady ( 6 episodes ) as Richard Monkton
- 2000 Longitude ( 1 episode ) as Solicitor
- 1987 Fortunes of War ( 1 episode ) as Clifford
- 1986 Dear John ( 1 episode ) as Roger
- 2015 Cradle to Grave ( 1 episode ) as Judge
- 2013 Vicious ( 1 episode ) as Jasper
- 2017 Decline and Fall ( 1 episode ) as Prosecutor
- 2013 Father Brown ( 1 episode ) as Bishop Yorke
- 1974 The Pallisers ( 4 episodes ) as Gerald
- 2000 Perfect World ( 13 episodes ) as Terence Bentley (The Director)
- 2001 Murphy's Law ( 1 episode ) as Livingston
- 1985 The Detective ( 5 episodes ) as David Marchwint
- 1993 Sharpe ( 2 episodes ) as Simmerson
- 1994 99-1 ( 1 episode ) as Charlwood
