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