Michael Cochrane
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 19, 1947 (age 79)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Movie · as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
Beyond Paradise
TV · as Kenneth Linder · 1 ep
Living
Movie · as Sir James
I Hate You
TV · as Leonard · 1 ep
The Outlaws
TV · as Mr Kingsley · 3 eps
Sticks and Stones
TV · as Clayton · 3 eps
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Movie · as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Decline and Fall
TV · as Prosecutor · 1 ep
The Crown
TV · as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten · 1 ep
Agatha Raisin
TV · as Sir Desmond · 1 ep
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Movie · as Arnold Ridley
Coalition
Movie · as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Cradle to Grave
TV · as Judge · 1 ep
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Movie · as Ian MacGregor
The Musketeers
TV · 1 ep
Man Down
TV · 1 ep
The Escape Artist
TV · as Judge · 2 eps
Vicious
TV · as Jasper · 1 ep
Father Brown
TV · as Bishop Yorke · 1 ep
Run For Your Wife
Movie · as Man on Bus
Panto!
Movie · as Johnny
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV · as Captain Smith · 4 eps
Call the Midwife
TV · as Sir Brigham Aylward · 1 ep
The Iron Lady
Movie · as William
Holy Flying Circus
Movie · as Malcolm Muggeridge
Downton Abbey
TV · as Reverend Travis · 5 eps
Margaret
Movie · as Alan Clark
Sharpe's Peril
Movie · as Simmerson
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Movie · as Sir Waldron Smithers
Mutual Friends
TV · as Judge · 1 ep
My Spy Family
TV · as Lord Bollingstock · 13 eps
Sharpe's Challenge
Movie · as Simmerson
HG Wells: War with the World
Movie · as Minister
The Government Inspector
Movie · as Sir Richard Dearlove
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Movie · as Lord Lyttleton
A Different Loyalty
Movie · as Dick Madsen
The Worst Week of My Life
TV · as Rupert · 1 ep
Reversals
Movie · as Derek Barry
Rosemary & Thyme
TV · as Franklin Danvers · 1 ep
Keen Eddie
TV · 1 ep
The Falklands Play
Movie · as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
Wire in the Blood
TV · as Judge Hynes · 1 ep
Spooks
TV · as Ross Vaughan · 1 ep
The Cry
TV · as Nathaniel Weekly · 4 eps
The Innocent
Movie · as Harold Haig
Murphy's Law
TV · as Livingston · 1 ep
Longitude
Movie · as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Justice in Wonderland
Movie · as Whiteman
Monarch of the Glen
TV · 1 ep
Longitude
TV · as Solicitor · 1 ep
Perfect World
TV · as Terence Bentley (The Director) · 13 eps
Nancherrow
Movie · as Sir George Rawlings
Nancherrow
TV · 2 eps
The Ambassador
TV · 1 ep
The Saint
Movie · as Cold Fusion Broker
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie · as Simmerson
Incognito
Movie · as Detective Inspector Deeks
The Uninvited
TV · 4 eps
Jonathan Creek
TV · as Owen Glendower · 1 ep
Sharpe's Regiment
Movie · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Sword
Movie · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Pie in the Sky
TV · as Julian Tubbs · 1 ep
Wycliffe
TV · as Mr. Price · 1 ep
99-1
TV · as Charlwood · 1 ep
Sharpe's Eagle
Movie · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe
TV · as Sir Henry Simmerson · 2 eps
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Movie · as Winston Churchill
A Touch of Frost
TV · as Babcock, HMI · 2 eps
Heartbeat
TV · as Derek Lightfoot, Stephen Quinn, Cunningham · 1 ep
Tell Me That You Love Me
Movie · as Geoff
A Murder of Quality
Movie · as Charles Hecht
The Darling Buds of May
TV · as Wing Commander Honeyman · 1 ep
Number One Gun
Movie · as Flash Fairmaid
The Chief
TV · as Nigel Crimmond · 17 eps
No Job for a Lady
TV · as Richard Monkton · 6 eps
The Return of Sam McCloud
Movie · as Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Movie · as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV · as Swithun Riding · 3 eps
Fortunes of War
TV · as Clifford · 1 ep
Dear John
TV · as Roger · 1 ep
Howards' Way
TV · as Pierre Challon · 1 ep
The Detective
TV · as David Marchwint · 5 eps
Frankenstein
Movie · as Henry Clervell
Real Life
Movie · as Lipton
Hay Fever
Movie · as Sandy Tyrell
The Far Pavilions
TV · as Crimpley · 2 eps
Ascendancy
Movie · as Officer
The Return of the Soldier
Movie · as Stephen
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
TV · as Dennis Radcliffe · 1 ep
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Movie · as Lord Cranleigh
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Movie · as Charles Masterman
Escape to Victory
Movie · as Farrell
Love in a Cold Climate
TV · as Cedric Hampton · 8 eps
Daphne Laureola
Movie · as Bill
The Country Wife
Movie · as Sparkish
Wings
TV · as Charles Gaylion · 25 eps
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV · as Bill · 1 ep
The Pallisers
TV · as Gerald · 4 eps
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Sparkish · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Lord Cranleigh, Redvers Fenn-Cooper · 1 ep