Michael Cochrane
Acting • Born 1947-05-19
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
99 credits
Frankenstein
Movie • 1984
Henry Clervell
The Saint
Movie • 1997
The Falklands Play
Movie • 2002
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
Tell Me That You Love Me
Movie • 1991
Geoff
A Murder of Quality
Movie • 1991
Charles Hecht
Longitude
Movie • 2000
Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Sharpe's Eagle
Movie • 1993
Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
A Different Loyalty
Movie • 2004
Dick Madsen
Sharpe's Sword
Movie • 1995
Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Regiment
Movie • 1996
Sir Henry Simmerson
Real Life
Movie • 1984
Lipton
Sharpe's Peril
Movie • 2008
Simmerson
The Return of Sam McCloud
Movie • 1989
Geraint Davies
Living
Movie • 2022
Sir James
Run For Your Wife
Movie • 2012
Man on Bus
Number One Gun
Movie • 1990
Flash Fairmaid
Panto!
Movie • 2012
Johnny
Margaret
Movie • 2009
Alan Clark
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Movie • 2024
Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Movie • 2015
Arnold Ridley
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Movie • 2008
Sir Waldron Smithers
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Movie • 1992
Winston Churchill
The Country Wife
Movie • 1977
Sparkish
The Government Inspector
Movie • 2005
Sir Richard Dearlove
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie • 1997
Simmerson
The Iron Lady
Movie • 2011
William
The Cry
Movie • 2002
Nathaniel Wakely
Reversals
Movie • 2003
Derek Barry
Coalition
Movie • 2015
Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Movie • 1989
Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Daphne Laureola
Movie • 1978
Bill
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Movie • 1981
Charles Masterman
Sharpe's Challenge
Movie • 2006
Simmerson
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Movie • 2018
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Incognito
Movie • 1997
Detective Inspector Deeks
The Innocent
Movie • 2001
Harold Haig
Hay Fever
Movie • 1984
Sandy Tyrell
Ascendancy
Movie • 1983
Officer
HG Wells: War with the World
Movie • 2006
Minister
Nancherrow
Movie • 1999
Sir George Rawlings
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Movie • 2005
Lord Lyttleton
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Movie • 2014
Ian MacGregor
Escape to Victory
Movie • 1981
Farrell
The Return of the Soldier
Movie • 1983
Stephen
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Movie • 1982
Lord Cranleigh
Holy Flying Circus
Movie • 2011
Malcolm Muggeridge
The Uninvited
TV • 1997
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Lord Cranleigh
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV • 2012
Captain Smith
Wings
TV • 1977
Charles Gaylion
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Reverend Travis
Howards' Way
TV • 1985
Pierre Challon
Sharpe
TV • 1993
Sir Henry Simmerson
Rosemary & Thyme
TV • 2003
Franklin Danvers
Man Down
TV • 2013
99-1
TV • 1994
Charlwood
Monarch of the Glen
TV • 2000
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Swithun Riding
Mutual Friends
TV • 2008
Judge
Keen Eddie
TV • 2003
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Bill
The Ambassador
TV • 1998
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Jonathan Creek
TV • 1997
Owen Glendower
Wire in the Blood
TV • 2002
The Crown
TV • 2016
Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Babcock, HMI
Pie in the Sky
TV • 1994
Julian Tubbs
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Derek Lightfoot
Nancherrow
TV • 1999
Love in a Cold Climate
TV • 1980
Cedric Hampton
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
TV • 1983
Dennis Radcliffe
Wycliffe
TV • 1994
Mr. Price
I Hate You
TV • 2022
Leonard
Spooks
TV • 2002
Ross Vaughan
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Sir Brigham Aylward
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Stephen Quinn
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Cunningham
Sticks and Stones
TV • 2019
Clayton
The Outlaws
TV • 2021
Mr Kingsley
The Cry
TV • 2002
Nathaniel Weekly
My Spy Family
TV • 2007
Lord Bollingstock
Agatha Raisin
TV • 2016
Sir Desmond
The Far Pavilions
TV • 1984
Crimpley
The Escape Artist
TV • 2013
Judge
The Darling Buds of May
TV • 1991
Wing Commander Honeyman
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Sparkish
The Chief
TV • 1990
Nigel Crimmond
No Job for a Lady
TV • 1990
Richard Monkton
Longitude
TV • 2000
Solicitor
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Clifford
Dear John
TV • 1986
Roger
Cradle to Grave
TV • 2015
Judge
Vicious
TV • 2013
Jasper
Decline and Fall
TV • 2017
Prosecutor
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Bishop Yorke
The Pallisers
TV • 1974
Gerald
Perfect World
TV • 2000
Terence Bentley (The Director)
Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
Livingston