Michael Cochrane

Michael Cochrane

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: Acting

Born: Brighton, Sussex, England, UK, 1947-05-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	The Country Wife	Sparkish	0
2	1978	Daphne Laureola	Bill	60
3	1981	The Life and Times of David Lloyd George	Charles Masterman	0
4	1981	Escape to Victory	Farrell	69
5	1982	Doctor Who: Black Orchid	Lord Cranleigh	63
6	1983	Ascendancy	Officer	50
7	1983	The Return of the Soldier	Stephen	62
8	1984	Real Life	Lipton	0
9	1984	Frankenstein	Henry Clervell	58
10	1984	Hay Fever	Sandy Tyrell	60
11	1989	Doctor Who: Ghost Light	Redvers Fenn-Cooper	87
12	1989	The Return of Sam McCloud	Geraint Davies	60
13	1990	Number One Gun	Flash Fairmaid	50
14	1991	Tell Me That You Love Me	Geoff	0
15	1991	A Murder of Quality	Charles Hecht	55
16	1992	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	Winston Churchill	64
17	1993	Sharpe's Eagle	Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson	71
18	1995	Sharpe's Sword	Sir Henry Simmerson	72
19	1996	Sharpe's Regiment	Sir Henry Simmerson	69
20	1997	The Saint		61
21	1997	Sharpe: The Legend	Simmerson	60
22	1997	Incognito	Detective Inspector Deeks	58
23	1999	Nancherrow	Sir George Rawlings	60
24	2000	Longitude	Waddington, Gould's solicitor	73
25	2001	The Innocent	Harold Haig	0
26	2002	The Cry	Nathaniel Wakely	60
27	2002	The Falklands Play	Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)	74
28	2003	Reversals	Derek Barry	60
29	2004	A Different Loyalty	Dick Madsen	46
30	2005	Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore	Lord Lyttleton	0
31	2005	The Government Inspector	Sir Richard Dearlove	80
32	2006	Sharpe's Challenge	Simmerson	63
33	2006	HG Wells: War with the World	Minister	65
34	2008	Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley	Sir Waldron Smithers	68
35	2008	Sharpe's Peril	Simmerson	67
36	2009	Margaret	Alan Clark	58
37	2011	Holy Flying Circus	Malcolm Muggeridge	64
38	2011	The Iron Lady	William	64
39	2012	Run For Your Wife	Man on Bus	44
40	2012	Panto!	Johnny	0
41	2014	Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland	Ian MacGregor	0
42	2015	Coalition	Senior Tory MP Buchanan	70
43	2015	We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story	Arnold Ridley	65
44	2018	RSC Live: Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	75
45	2022	Living	Sir James	70
46	2024	To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy	Self - Archie Pennington-Booth	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Doctor Who	Lord Cranleigh	79
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Sparkish	50
3	1974	The Pallisers		67
4	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Bill	70
5	1977	Wings	Charles Gaylion	85
6	1980	Love in a Cold Climate	Cedric Hampton	62
7	1983	Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime	Dennis Radcliffe	61
8	1984	The Far Pavilions	Crimpley	75
9	1985	Howards' Way	Pierre Challon	56
10	1986	Dear John		74
11	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Swithun Riding	62
12	1987	Fortunes of War	Clifford	64
13	1990	No Job for a Lady		57
14	1990	The Chief	Nigel Crimmond	60
15	1991	The Darling Buds of May	Wing Commander Honeyman	78
16	1992	Heartbeat	Derek Lightfoot	71
17	1992	Heartbeat	Stephen Quinn	71
18	1992	Heartbeat	Cunningham	71
19	1992	A Touch of Frost	Babcock, HMI	75
20	1993	Sharpe	Sir Henry Simmerson	79
21	1994	99-1	Charlwood	0
22	1994	Pie in the Sky	Julian Tubbs	82
23	1994	Wycliffe	Mr. Price	60
24	1997	Jonathan Creek	Owen Glendower	75
25	1997	The Uninvited		60
26	1998	The Ambassador		60
27	1999	Nancherrow		80
28	2000	Perfect World		100
29	2000	Monarch of the Glen		75
30	2001	Murphy's Law		77
31	2002	The Cry	Nathaniel Weekly	60
32	2002	Spooks	Ross Vaughan	77
33	2002	Wire in the Blood		78
34	2003	Keen Eddie		84
35	2003	Rosemary & Thyme	Franklin Danvers	74
36	2007	My Spy Family	Lord Bollingstock	45
37	2008	Mutual Friends	Judge	70
38	2010	Downton Abbey	Reverend Travis	81
39	2012	Call the Midwife	Sir Brigham Aylward	75
40	2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	Captain Smith	71
41	2013	Vicious		75
42	2013	Man Down		67
43	2013	The Escape Artist	Judge	70
44	2014	The Musketeers		70
45	2016	Agatha Raisin	Sir Desmond	61
46	2016	The Crown	Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten	82
47	2017	Decline and Fall	Prosecutor	56
48	2019	Sticks and Stones	Clayton	72
49	2021	The Outlaws	Mr Kingsley	75
50	2022	I Hate You	Leonard	67

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