Michael Cochrane

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1947-05-19

Place of Birth

Brighton, Sussex, England, UK

Michael Cochrane

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
2022
Living as Sir James
2022
I Hate You as Leonard
2021
The Outlaws as Mr Kingsley
2019
Sticks and Stones as Clayton
2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2017
Decline and Fall as Prosecutor
2016
The Crown as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
2016
Agatha Raisin as Sir Desmond
2015
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as Arnold Ridley
2015
Cradle to Grave as Judge
2015
Coalition as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2014
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland as Ian MacGregor
2014
The Musketeers
2013
The Escape Artist as Judge
2013
Man Down
2013
Vicious as Jasper
2012
Panto! as Johnny
2012
Run For Your Wife as Man on Bus
2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel as Captain Smith
2012
Call the Midwife as Sir Brigham Aylward
2011
The Iron Lady as William
2011
Holy Flying Circus as Malcolm Muggeridge
2010
Downton Abbey as Reverend Travis
2009
Margaret as Alan Clark
2008
Sharpe's Peril as Simmerson
2008
Mutual Friends as Judge
2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley as Sir Waldron Smithers
2007
My Spy Family as Lord Bollingstock
2006
HG Wells: War with the World as Minister
2006
Sharpe's Challenge as Simmerson
2005
The Government Inspector as Sir Richard Dearlove
2005
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore as Lord Lyttleton
2004
A Different Loyalty as Dick Madsen
2003
Reversals as Derek Barry
2003
Rosemary & Thyme as Franklin Danvers
2003
Keen Eddie
2002
Wire in the Blood
2002
Spooks as Ross Vaughan
2002
The Falklands Play as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002
The Cry as Nathaniel Wakely
2002
The Cry as Nathaniel Weekly
2001
Murphy's Law
2001
The Innocent as Harold Haig
2000
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Perfect World
2000
Longitude as Solicitor
2000
Longitude as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
1999
Nancherrow
1999
Nancherrow as Sir George Rawlings
1998
The Ambassador
1997
Incognito as Detective Inspector Deeks
1997
Sharpe: The Legend as Simmerson
1997
The Uninvited
1997
Jonathan Creek as Owen Glendower
1997
The Saint
1996
Sharpe's Regiment as Sir Henry Simmerson
1995
Sharpe's Sword as Sir Henry Simmerson
1994
Wycliffe as Mr. Price
1994
Pie in the Sky as Julian Tubbs
1994
99-1 as Charlwood
1993
Sharpe's Eagle as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1993
Sharpe as Sir Henry Simmerson
1992
A Touch of Frost as Babcock, HMI
1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Winston Churchill
1992
Heartbeat as Derek Lightfoot
1992
Heartbeat as Stephen Quinn
1992
Heartbeat as Cunningham
1991
A Murder of Quality as Charles Hecht
1991
Tell Me That You Love Me as Geoff
1991
The Darling Buds of May as Wing Commander Honeyman
1990
The Chief as Nigel Crimmond
1990
No Job for a Lady as Richard Monkton
1990
Number One Gun as Flash Fairmaid
1989
The Return of Sam McCloud as Geraint Davies
1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1987
Fortunes of War as Clifford
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Swithun Riding
1986
Dear John as Roger
1985
Howards' Way as Pierre Challon
1984
Hay Fever as Sandy Tyrell
1984
Frankenstein as Henry Clervell
1984
Real Life as Lipton
1984
The Far Pavilions as Crimpley
1983
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime as Dennis Radcliffe
1983
The Return of the Soldier as Stephen
1983
Ascendancy as Officer
1982
Doctor Who: Black Orchid as Lord Cranleigh
1981
Escape to Victory as Farrell
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Charles Masterman
1980
Love in a Cold Climate as Cedric Hampton
1978
Daphne Laureola as Bill
1977
The Country Wife as Sparkish
1977
Wings as Charles Gaylion
1976
Laurence Olivier Presents as Bill
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Sparkish
1963
Doctor Who as Lord Cranleigh