Michael Cochrane
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
- 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 · Coalition as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
- 2014 · Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland as Ian MacGregor
- 2014 · The Musketeers as
- 2013 · The Escape Artist as Judge
- 2013 · Man Down as
- 2013 · Vicious as
- 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
- 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 as
- 2002 · Wire in the Blood as
- 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 Weekly
- 2002 · The Cry as Nathaniel Wakely
- 2001 · Murphy's Law as
- 2001 · The Innocent as Harold Haig
- 2000 · Monarch of the Glen as
- 2000 · Perfect World as
- 2000 · Longitude as Waddington
- 2000 · Longitude as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
- 1999 · Nancherrow as
- 1999 · Nancherrow as Sir George Rawlings
- 1998 · The Ambassador as
- 1997 · Incognito as Detective Inspector Deeks
- 1997 · Sharpe: The Legend as Simmerson
- 1997 · The Uninvited as
- 1997 · Jonathan Creek as Owen Glendower
- 1997 · The Saint as
- 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
- 1990 · Keeping Up Appearances as The Ship's Officer
- 1990 · The Chief as
- 1990 · No Job for a Lady as
- 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
- 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
- 1979 · To the Manor Born as Archie Pennington-Booth
- 1978 · Daphne Laureola as Bill
- 1977 · The Country Wife as Sparkish
- 1977 · Wings as Charles Gaylion
- 1976 · Laurence Olivier Presents as Bill
- 1974 · The Pallisers as
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Lord Cranleigh