Michael Cochrane
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-05-19 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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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Acting
(2024)
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
(2022)
Living
as Sir James
(2018)
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(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
(2012)
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
(2012)
Panto!
as Johnny
(2011)
The Iron Lady
as William
(2009)
Margaret
as Alan Clark
(2008)
Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
(2008)
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir Waldron Smithers
(2006)
Sharpe's Challenge
as Simmerson
(2006)
HG Wells: War with the World
as Minister
(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
(2002)
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
(2002)
The Cry
as Nathaniel Wakely
(2001)
The Innocent
as Harold Haig
(2000)
Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
(1999)
Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
(1997)
(1997)
Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
(1997)
Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
(1996)
Sharpe's Regiment
as Sir Henry Simmerson
(1995)
Sharpe's Sword
as Sir Henry Simmerson
(1993)
Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
(1992)
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Winston Churchill
(1991)
A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
(1991)
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Geoff
(1990)
Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
(1989)
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
(1989)
The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
(1984)
Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
(1984)
Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
(1984)
Real Life
as Lipton
(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
(1978)
Daphne Laureola
as Bill
(1977)
The Country Wife
as Sparkish