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Michael Cochrane

Michael Cochrane

Acting1947Brighton, 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.

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Acting History

2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
2023
Call the Midwife
TVas Sir Brigham Aylward1 eps
2022
Living
as Sir James
I Hate You
TVas Leonard
2021
The Outlaws
TVas Mr Kingsley3 eps
2019
Sticks and Stones
TVas Clayton
2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2017
Decline and Fall
TVas Prosecutor
2016
Agatha Raisin
TVas Sir Desmond1 eps
The Crown
TVas Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten1 eps
2015
Coalition
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Vicious
TVas Jasper1 eps
Cradle to Grave
TVas Judge
2013
Father Brown
TVas Bishop Yorke1 eps
2012
Panto!
as Johnny
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TVas Captain Smith4 eps
2011
The Iron Lady
as William
Holy Flying Circus
as Malcolm Muggeridge
Downton Abbey
TVas Reverend Travis5 eps
2009
Margaret
as Alan Clark
Heartbeat
TVas Cunningham1 eps
2008
2007
My Spy Family
TVas Lord Bollingstock
2005
The Government Inspector
as Sir Richard Dearlove
2004
A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
Jonathan Creek
TVas Owen Glendower1 eps
2003
Reversals
as Derek Barry
Spooks
TVas Ross Vaughan1 eps
Rosemary & Thyme
TVas Franklin Danvers
2002
The Cry
as Nathaniel Wakely
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
A Touch of Frost
TVas Babcock, HMI2 eps
The Cry
TVas Nathaniel Weekly
2001
2000
Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Longitude
TVas Solicitor
Perfect World
TVas Terence Bentley (The Director)
1999
Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
1997
Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
Wycliffe
TVas Mr. Price1 eps
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
as Sir Henry Simmerson
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TVas Swithun Riding3 eps
1995
Sharpe's Sword
as Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe
TVas Sir Henry Simmerson3 eps
1994
Pie in the Sky
TVas Julian Tubbs1 eps
99-1
TVas Charlwood
1993
Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1991
A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
The Darling Buds of May
TVas Wing Commander Honeyman
1990
Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
No Job for a Lady
TVas Richard Monkton
Howards' Way
TVas Pierre Challon1 eps
The Chief
TVas Nigel Crimmond
1989
The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1987
Fortunes of War
TVas Clifford
1986
Dear John
TVas Roger
1984
Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
Real Life
as Lipton
Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
The Far Pavilions
TVas Crimpley
1982
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
as Lord Cranleigh
1981
1980
Love in a Cold Climate
TVas Cedric Hampton
1978
1977
The Country Wife
as Sparkish
BBC Play of the Month
TVas Sparkish1 eps
Wings
TVas Charles Gaylion
1974
The Pallisers
TVas Gerald
1963
Doctor Who
TVas Lord Cranleigh

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/19/1947(78 years old)
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK