Michael Cochrane
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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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Acted in
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
2024
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
Living
2022
as Sir James
I Hate You
2022
as Leonard
The Outlaws
2021
as Mr Kingsley
Sticks and Stones
2019
as Clayton
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Decline and Fall
2017
as Prosecutor
The Crown
2016
as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
Agatha Raisin
2016
as Sir Desmond
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015
as Arnold Ridley
Coalition
2015
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
2014
as Ian MacGregor
The Musketeers
2014
The Escape Artist
2013
as Judge
Man Down
2013
Vicious
2013
Panto!
2012
as Johnny
Run For Your Wife
2012
as Man on Bus
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
as Captain Smith
Call the Midwife
2012
as Sir Brigham Aylward
The Iron Lady
2011
as William
Downton Abbey
2010
as Reverend Travis
Margaret
2009
as Alan Clark
Sharpe's Peril
2008
as Simmerson
Mutual Friends
2008
as Judge
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
as Sir Waldron Smithers
My Spy Family
2007
as Lord Bollingstock
HG Wells: War with the World
2006
as Minister
Sharpe's Challenge
2006
as Simmerson
The Government Inspector
2005
as Sir Richard Dearlove
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
2005
as Lord Lyttleton
A Different Loyalty
2004
as Dick Madsen
Reversals
2003
as Derek Barry
Rosemary & Thyme
2003
as Franklin Danvers
Keen Eddie
2003
Wire in the Blood
2002
Spooks
2002
as Ross Vaughan
The Falklands Play
2002
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Cry
2002
as Nathaniel Wakely
The Cry
2002
as Nathaniel Weekly
Murphy's Law
2001
The Innocent
2001
as Harold Haig
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Perfect World
2000
Longitude
2000
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Longitude
2000
as Waddington
Nancherrow
1999
Nancherrow
1999
as Sir George Rawlings
The Ambassador
1998
Incognito
1997
as Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Simmerson
The Uninvited
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Owen Glendower
The Saint
1997
Sharpe's Regiment
1996
as Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Sword
1995
as Sir Henry Simmerson
Wycliffe
1994
as Mr. Price
Pie in the Sky
1994
as Julian Tubbs
99-1
1994
as Charlwood
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe
1993
as Sir Henry Simmerson
A Touch of Frost
1992
as Babcock, HMI
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as Winston Churchill
Heartbeat
1992
as Derek Lightfoot
Heartbeat
1992
as Stephen Quinn
Heartbeat
1992
as Cunningham
A Murder of Quality
1991
as Charles Hecht
Tell Me That You Love Me
1991
as Geoff
The Darling Buds of May
1991
as Wing Commander Honeyman
Keeping Up Appearances
1990
as The Ship's Officer
The Chief
1990
No Job for a Lady
1990
Number One Gun
1990
as Flash Fairmaid
The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
as Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Fortunes of War
1987
as Clifford
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Swithun Riding
Dear John
1986
Howards' Way
1985
as Pierre Challon
Hay Fever
1984
as Sandy Tyrell
Frankenstein
1984
as Henry Clervell
Real Life
1984
as Lipton
The Far Pavilions
1984
as Crimpley
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983
as Dennis Radcliffe
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Stephen
Ascendancy
1983
as Officer
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982
as Lord Cranleigh
Escape to Victory
1981
as Farrell
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981
as Charles Masterman
Love in a Cold Climate
1980
as Cedric Hampton
To the Manor Born
1979
as Archie Pennington-Booth
Daphne Laureola
1978
as Bill
The Country Wife
1977
as Sparkish
Wings
1977
as Charles Gaylion
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
as Bill
The Pallisers
1974
Doctor Who
1963
as Lord Cranleigh