Michael Cochrane

Birthday: 1947-05-19
Birthplace: Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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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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Credits

Year Title Character
2022-11-04 Living Sir James
2018-02-14 RSC Live: Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2015-12-22 We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story Arnold Ridley
2015-03-28 Coalition Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2014-06-20 Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland Ian MacGregor
2012-12-26 Panto! Johnny
2012-05-16 Run For Your Wife Man on Bus
2011-12-26 The Iron Lady William
2009-03-26 Margaret Alan Clark
2008-11-02 Sharpe's Peril Simmerson
2008-06-12 Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley Sir Waldron Smithers
2006-09-30 HG Wells: War with the World Minister
2006-04-23 Sharpe's Challenge Simmerson
2005-03-17 The Government Inspector Sir Richard Dearlove
2005-03-02 Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore Lord Lyttleton
2004-11-12 A Different Loyalty Dick Madsen
2003-11-19 Reversals Derek Barry
2002-04-10 The Falklands Play Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002-04-08 The Cry Nathaniel Wakely
2001-01-07 The Innocent Harold Haig
2000-01-02 Longitude Waddington, Gould's solicitor
1999-01-01 Nancherrow Sir George Rawlings
1997-11-14 Incognito Detective Inspector Deeks
1997-10-13 Sharpe: The Legend Simmerson
1997-04-03 The Saint
1996-05-01 Sharpe's Regiment Sir Henry Simmerson
1995-04-26 Sharpe's Sword Sir Henry Simmerson
1993-05-12 Sharpe's Eagle Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1992-04-18 A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia Winston Churchill
1991-10-04 A Murder of Quality Charles Hecht
1991-09-08 Tell Me That You Love Me Geoff
1990-01-01 Number One Gun Flash Fairmaid
1989-11-12 The Return of Sam McCloud Geraint Davies
1989-10-18 Doctor Who: Ghost Light Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1984-12-04 Hay Fever Sandy Tyrell
1984-06-17 Frankenstein Henry Clervell
1984-06-01 Real Life Lipton
1983-01-06 The Return of the Soldier Stephen
1983-01-01 Ascendancy Officer
1982-03-02 Doctor Who: Black Orchid Lord Cranleigh
1981-06-17 Escape to Victory Farrell
1981-03-04 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George Charles Masterman
1978-01-15 Daphne Laureola Bill
1977-02-13 The Country Wife Sparkish