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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 19, 1947
Place of Birth:
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy | Self - Archie Pennington-Booth |
| 2022 | Living | Sir James |
| 2018 | RSC Live: Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
| 2015 | We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story | Arnold Ridley |
| 2015 | Coalition | Senior Tory MP Buchanan |
| 2014 | Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland | Ian MacGregor |
| 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Man on Bus |
| 2012 | Panto! | Johnny |
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | William |
| 2011 | Holy Flying Circus | Malcolm Muggeridge |
| 2009 | Margaret | Alan Clark |
| 2008 | Sharpe's Peril | Simmerson |
| 2008 | Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Sir Waldron Smithers |
| 2006 | Sharpe's Challenge | Simmerson |
| 2006 | HG Wells: War with the World | Minister |
| 2005 | The Government Inspector | Sir Richard Dearlove |
| 2005 | Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore | Lord Lyttleton |
| 2004 | A Different Loyalty | Dick Madsen |
| 2003 | Reversals | Derek Barry |
| 2002 | The Falklands Play | Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) |
| 2002 | The Cry | Nathaniel Wakely |
| 2001 | The Innocent | Harold Haig |
| 2000 | Longitude | Waddington, Gould's solicitor |
| 1999 | Nancherrow | Sir George Rawlings |
| 1997 | The Saint | |
| 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend | Simmerson |
| 1997 | Incognito | Detective Inspector Deeks |
| 1996 | Sharpe's Regiment | Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1995 | Sharpe's Sword | Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1993 | Sharpe's Eagle | Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1992 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | Winston Churchill |
| 1991 | Tell Me That You Love Me | Geoff |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Charles Hecht |
| 1990 | Number One Gun | Flash Fairmaid |
| 1989 | The Return of Sam McCloud | Geraint Davies |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light | Redvers Fenn-Cooper |
| 1984 | Frankenstein | Henry Clervell |
| 1984 | Real Life | Lipton |
| 1984 | Hay Fever | Sandy Tyrell |
| 1983 | Ascendancy | Officer |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Stephen |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: Black Orchid | Lord Cranleigh |
| 1981 | The Life and Times of David Lloyd George | Charles Masterman |
| 1981 | Escape to Victory | Farrell |
| 1978 | Daphne Laureola | Bill |
| 1977 | The Country Wife | Sparkish |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | I Hate You | Leonard |
| 2021 | The Outlaws | Mr Kingsley |
| 2019 | Sticks and Stones | Clayton |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall | Prosecutor |
| 2016 | The Crown | Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten |
| 2016 | Agatha Raisin | Sir Desmond |
| 2014 | The Musketeers | |
| 2013 | Man Down | |
| 2013 | Vicious | |
| 2013 | The Escape Artist | Judge |
| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Captain Smith |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Sir Brigham Aylward |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey | Reverend Travis |
| 2008 | Mutual Friends | Judge |
| 2007 | My Spy Family | Lord Bollingstock |
| 2003 | Rosemary & Thyme | Franklin Danvers |
| 2003 | Keen Eddie | |
| 2002 | Wire in the Blood | |
| 2002 | Spooks | Ross Vaughan |
| 2002 | The Cry | Nathaniel Weekly |
| 2001 | Murphy's Law | |
| 2000 | Perfect World | |
| 2000 | Monarch of the Glen | |
| 2000 | Longitude | Waddington |
| 1999 | Nancherrow | |
| 1998 | The Ambassador | |
| 1997 | The Uninvited | |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek | Owen Glendower |
| 1994 | 99-1 | Charlwood |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky | Julian Tubbs |
| 1994 | Wycliffe | Mr. Price |
| 1993 | Sharpe | Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Babcock, HMI |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Derek Lightfoot |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Stephen Quinn |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Cunningham |
| 1991 | The Darling Buds of May | Wing Commander Honeyman |
| 1990 | No Job for a Lady | |
| 1990 | The Chief | |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Swithun Riding |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War | Clifford |
| 1986 | Dear John | |
| 1985 | Howards' Way | Pierre Challon |
| 1984 | The Far Pavilions | Crimpley |
| 1983 | Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime | Dennis Radcliffe |
| 1980 | Love in a Cold Climate | Cedric Hampton |
| 1977 | Wings | Charles Gaylion |
| 1976 | Laurence Olivier Presents | Bill |
| 1974 | The Pallisers | |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Lord Cranleigh |