
Michael Cochrane
Biography
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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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Acting History
2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
2022Living as Sir James
2022I Hate You as Leonard
2021The Outlaws as Mr Kingsley
2019Sticks and Stones as Clayton
2018RSC Live: Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2017Decline and Fall as Prosecutor
2016The Crown as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
2016Agatha Raisin as Sir Desmond
2015We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as Arnold Ridley
2015Cradle to Grave as Judge
2015Coalition as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2014Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland as Ian MacGregor
2014The Musketeers
2013The Escape Artist as Judge
2013Man Down
2013Vicious as Jasper
2012Panto! as Johnny
2012Run For Your Wife as Man on Bus
2012Titanic: Blood and Steel as Captain Smith
2012Call the Midwife as Sir Brigham Aylward
2011The Iron Lady as William
2011Holy Flying Circus as Malcolm Muggeridge
2010Downton Abbey as Reverend Travis
2009Margaret as Alan Clark
2008Sharpe's Peril as Simmerson
2008Mutual Friends as Judge
2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Sir Waldron Smithers
2007My Spy Family as Lord Bollingstock
2006HG Wells: War with the World as Minister
2006Sharpe's Challenge as Simmerson
2005The Government Inspector as Sir Richard Dearlove
2005Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore as Lord Lyttleton
2004A Different Loyalty as Dick Madsen
2003Reversals as Derek Barry
2003Rosemary & Thyme as Franklin Danvers
2003Keen Eddie
2002Wire in the Blood
2002Spooks as Ross Vaughan
2002The Falklands Play as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002The Cry as Nathaniel Wakely
2002The Cry as Nathaniel Weekly
2001Murphy's Law
2001The Innocent as Harold Haig
2000Monarch of the Glen
2000Perfect World
2000Longitude as Solicitor
2000Longitude as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
1999Nancherrow
1999Nancherrow as Sir George Rawlings
1998The Ambassador
1997Incognito as Detective Inspector Deeks
1997Sharpe: The Legend as Simmerson
1997The Uninvited
1997Jonathan Creek as Owen Glendower
1997The Saint
1996Sharpe's Regiment as Sir Henry Simmerson
1995Sharpe's Sword as Sir Henry Simmerson
1994Wycliffe as Mr. Price
1994Pie in the Sky as Julian Tubbs
199499-1 as Charlwood
1993Sharpe's Eagle as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1993Sharpe as Sir Henry Simmerson
1992A Touch of Frost as Babcock, HMI
1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Winston Churchill
1992Heartbeat as Derek Lightfoot
1992Heartbeat as Stephen Quinn
1992Heartbeat as Cunningham
1991A Murder of Quality as Charles Hecht
1991Tell Me That You Love Me as Geoff
1991The Darling Buds of May as Wing Commander Honeyman
1990The Chief as Nigel Crimmond
1990No Job for a Lady as Richard Monkton
1990Number One Gun as Flash Fairmaid
1989The Return of Sam McCloud as Geraint Davies
1989Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1987Fortunes of War as Clifford
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Swithun Riding
1986Dear John as Roger
1985Howards' Way as Pierre Challon
1984Hay Fever as Sandy Tyrell
1984Frankenstein as Henry Clervell
1984Real Life as Lipton
1984The Far Pavilions as Crimpley
1983Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime as Dennis Radcliffe
1983The Return of the Soldier as Stephen
1983Ascendancy as Officer
1982Doctor Who: Black Orchid as Lord Cranleigh
1981Escape to Victory as Farrell
1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Charles Masterman
1980Love in a Cold Climate as Cedric Hampton
1978Daphne Laureola as Bill
1977The Country Wife as Sparkish
1977Wings as Charles Gaylion
1976Laurence Olivier Presents as Bill
1965BBC Play of the Month as Sparkish
1963Doctor Who as Lord Cranleigh







