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