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.
Acted in 95
2020s
- 2023
- 2022
I Hate You
Leonard · 1 episode
- 2021
2010s
- 2019
Sticks and Stones
Clayton · 3 episodes
- 2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Arnold Ridley
Cradle to Grave
Judge · 1 episode
Coalition
Senior Tory MP Buchanan
- 2014
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Ian MacGregor
- 2013
Man Down
TV
Vicious
Jasper · 1 episode
- 2012
Panto!
Johnny
Run For Your Wife
Man on Bus
- 2011
Holy Flying Circus
Malcolm Muggeridge
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
- 2008
Sharpe's Peril
Simmerson
Mutual Friends
Judge · 1 episode
- 2007
My Spy Family
Lord Bollingstock · 13 episodes
- 2006
HG Wells: War with the World
Minister
Sharpe's Challenge
Simmerson
- 2005
The Government Inspector
Sir Richard Dearlove
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Lord Lyttleton
- 2004
- 2003
Keen Eddie
TV
- 2002
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Cry
Nathaniel Weekly · 4 episodes
- 2001
- 2000
Perfect World
Terence Bentley (The Director) · 13 episodes
Longitude
Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Longitude
Solicitor · 1 episode
1990s
- 1999
Nancherrow
TV
Nancherrow
Sir George Rawlings
- 1998
The Ambassador
TV
- 1997
Sharpe: The Legend
Simmerson
The Uninvited
TV
- 1996
Sharpe's Regiment
Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1995
Sharpe's Sword
Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1994
99-1
Charlwood · 1 episode
- 1993
Sharpe's Eagle
Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
- 1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Winston Churchill
- 1991
A Murder of Quality
Charles Hecht
Tell Me That You Love Me
Geoff
- 1990
No Job for a Lady
Richard Monkton · 6 episodes
Number One Gun
Flash Fairmaid
1980s
- 1989
The Return of Sam McCloud
Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Redvers Fenn-Cooper
- 1987
- 1986
Dear John
Roger · 1 episode
- 1985
- 1984
Hay Fever
Sandy Tyrell
Real Life
Lipton
The Far Pavilions
Crimpley · 2 episodes
- 1983
Ascendancy
Officer
- 1982
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Lord Cranleigh
- 1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Charles Masterman
- 1980
Love in a Cold Climate
Cedric Hampton · 8 episodes
1970s
- 1978
Daphne Laureola
Bill
- 1977
The Country Wife
Sparkish
Wings
Charles Gaylion · 25 episodes
- 1976
Laurence Olivier Presents
Bill · 1 episode
- 1974
Appearances1
2020s
- 2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Self - Archie Pennington-Booth