Michael Cochrane
45 movies · 54 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 19, 1947 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Biography
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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.
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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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Michael Cochrane: movies and TV shows
Acting (99)
- 2023
- 2022 Living
as Sir James
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2018 RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015 We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Arnold Ridley
- 2015
- 2015 Coalition
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
- 2014 Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
as Ian MacGregor
- 2014
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012 Panto!
as Johnny
- 2012 Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011 The Iron Lady
as William
- 2011 Holy Flying Circus
as Malcolm Muggeridge
- 2010
- 2009 Margaret
as Alan Clark
- 2008 Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
- 2008
- 2008 Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir Waldron Smithers
- 2007
- 2006 HG Wells: War with the World
as Minister
- 2006 Sharpe's Challenge
as Simmerson
- 2005 The Government Inspector
as Sir Richard Dearlove
- 2005 Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
as Lord Lyttleton
- 2004 A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
- 2004
- 2003 Reversals
as Derek Barry
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002 The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 The Innocent
as Harold Haig
- 2000 Justice in Wonderland
as Whiteman
- 2000
- 2000
- 2000 Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999 Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
- 1998
- 1997 Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
- 1997 Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
- 1997
- 1997
- 1997 The Saint
as Cold Fusion Broker
- 1996 Sharpe's Regiment
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1995 Sharpe's Sword
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994
- 1993 Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Winston Churchill
- 1992
- 1991 A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
- 1991 Tell Me That You Love Me
as Geoff
- 1991
- 1990
- 1990
- 1990 Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
- 1989 The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
- 1989 Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
- 1984 Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
- 1984 Real Life
as Lipton
- 1984
- 1983
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier
as Stephen
- 1983 Ascendancy
as Officer
- 1982 Doctor Who: Black Orchid
as Lord Cranleigh
- 1981 Escape to Victory
as Farrell
- 1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Charles Masterman
- 1980
- 1978 Daphne Laureola
as Bill
- 1977 The Country Wife
as Sparkish
- 1977
- 1976
- 1974
- 1965
- 1963
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2024