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Michael Cochrane

Actor

Michael Cochrane

Born May 19, 1947 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK45 films

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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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Filmography

45 films as actor
  1. 2022LivingSir James
  2. 2018RSC Live: Twelfth NightSir Andrew Aguecheek
  3. 2015We're Doomed! The Dad's Army StoryArnold Ridley
  4. 2015CoalitionSenior Tory MP Buchanan
  5. 2014Hampstead Theatre At Home: WonderlandIan MacGregor
  6. 2012Panto!Johnny
  7. 2012Run For Your WifeMan on Bus
  8. 2011The Iron LadyWilliam
  9. 2011Holy Flying CircusMalcolm Muggeridge
  10. 2009MargaretAlan Clark
  11. 2008Sharpe's PerilSimmerson
  12. 2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to FinchleySir Waldron Smithers
  13. 2006HG Wells: War with the WorldMinister
  14. 2006Sharpe's ChallengeSimmerson
  15. 2005The Government InspectorSir Richard Dearlove
  16. 2005Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of HardcoreLord Lyttleton
  17. 2004A Different LoyaltyDick Madsen
  18. 2003ReversalsDerek Barry
  19. 2002The Falklands PlayRt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
  20. 2001The InnocentHarold Haig
  21. 2000Justice in WonderlandWhiteman
  22. 2000LongitudeWaddington, Gould's solicitor
  23. 1999NancherrowSir George Rawlings
  24. 1997IncognitoDetective Inspector Deeks
  25. 1997Sharpe: The LegendSimmerson
  26. 1997The SaintCold Fusion Broker
  27. 1996Sharpe's RegimentColonel Sir Henry Simmerson
  28. 1995Sharpe's SwordColonel Sir Henry Simmerson
  29. 1993Sharpe's EagleColonel Sir Henry Simmerson
  30. 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After ArabiaWinston Churchill
  31. 1991A Murder of QualityCharles Hecht
  32. 1991Tell Me That You Love MeGeoff
  33. 1990Number One GunFlash Fairmaid
  34. 1989The Return of Sam McCloudGeraint Davies
  35. 1989Doctor Who: Ghost LightRedvers Fenn-Cooper
  36. 1984Hay FeverSandy Tyrell
  37. 1984FrankensteinHenry Clervell
  38. 1984Real LifeLipton
  39. 1983The Return of the SoldierStephen
  40. 1983AscendancyOfficer
  41. 1982Doctor Who: Black OrchidLord Cranleigh
  42. 1981Escape to VictoryFarrell
  43. 1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd GeorgeCharles Masterman
  44. 1978Daphne LaureolaBill
  45. 1977The Country WifeSparkish