Michael Cochrane
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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.
Known for
Credits
Escape to Victory (1981)
as Farrell
The Saint (1997)
as Cold Fusion Broker
The Iron Lady (2011)
as William
Living (2022)
as Sir James
Longitude (2000)
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Sharpe's Sword (1995)
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Holy Flying Circus (2011)
as Malcolm Muggeridge
A Different Loyalty (2004)
as Dick Madsen
Incognito (1997)
as Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
as Simmerson
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as Stephen
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Simmerson
The Falklands Play (2002)
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
Sharpe's Peril (2008)
as Simmerson
Real Life (1984)
as Lipton
Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Margaret (2009)
as Alan Clark
Coalition (2015)
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
A Murder of Quality (1991)
as Charles Hecht
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992)
as Winston Churchill
Hay Fever (1984)
as Sandy Tyrell
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008)
as Sir Waldron Smithers
RSC Live: Twelfth Night (2018)
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Daphne Laureola (1978)
as Bill
Reversals (2003)
as Derek Barry
Frankenstein (1984)
as Henry Clervell
The Innocent (2001)
as Harold Haig
Run For Your Wife (2012)
as Man on Bus
HG Wells: War with the World (2006)
as Minister
Nancherrow (1999)
as Sir George Rawlings
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story (2015)
as Arnold Ridley
Ascendancy (1983)
as Officer
The Return of Sam McCloud (1989)
as Geraint Davies
The Country Wife (1977)
as Sparkish
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
as Charles Masterman
The Government Inspector (2005)
as Sir Richard Dearlove
Doctor Who: Ghost Light (1989)
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Tell Me That You Love Me (1991)
as Geoff
Doctor Who: Black Orchid (1982)
as Lord Cranleigh
Panto! (2012)
as Johnny
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland (2014)
as Ian MacGregor
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy (2024)
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
Number One Gun (1990)
as Flash Fairmaid
The Cry (2002)
as Nathaniel Wakely
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005)
as Lord Lyttleton