Acting
Michael Cochrane
EN cinema · 46 credits
Born
19 May 1947 (age 79)
Birthplace
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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.
Known for
Filmography
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
Living
as Sir James
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Arnold Ridley
Coalition
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
as Ian MacGregor
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
Panto!
as Johnny
The Iron Lady
as William
Holy Flying Circus
as Malcolm Muggeridge
Margaret
as Alan Clark
Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir Waldron Smithers
Sharpe's Challenge
as Simmerson
HG Wells: War with the World
as Minister
The Government Inspector
as Sir Richard Dearlove
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
as Lord Lyttleton
A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
Reversals
2003
Reversals
as Derek Barry
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Innocent
2001
The Innocent
as Harold Haig
Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
The Saint
as Cold Fusion Broker
Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe's Regiment
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Sword
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Winston Churchill
A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
Real Life
as Lipton
Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
Ascendancy
as Officer
The Return of the Soldier
as Stephen
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
as Lord Cranleigh
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Charles Masterman
Escape to Victory
as Farrell
Daphne Laureola
as Bill
The Country Wife
as Sparkish