Michael Cochrane

Personal Info

Birthday

May 19, 1947

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

Brighton, Sussex, England, UK

Michael Cochrane

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).

Known For

Downton Abbey

Call the Midwife

The Crown

Doctor Who

Spooks

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Howards' Way

A Touch of Frost

Filmography

2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
2022
Living
as Sir James
2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2015
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Arnold Ridley
Coalition
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2014
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
as Ian MacGregor
2012
Panto!
as Johnny
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
2011
The Iron Lady
as William
Holy Flying Circus
as Malcolm Muggeridge
2009
Margaret
as Alan Clark
2008
Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir Waldron Smithers
2006
HG Wells: War with the World
as Minister
Sharpe's Challenge
as Simmerson
2005
The Government Inspector
as Sir Richard Dearlove
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
as Lord Lyttleton
2004
A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
2003
Reversals
as Derek Barry
2002
The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2001
The Innocent
as Harold Haig
2000
Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
1999
Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
1997
Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
as Sir Henry Simmerson
1995
Sharpe's Sword
as Sir Henry Simmerson
1993
Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Winston Churchill
1991
A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Geoff
1990
Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
1989
The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1984
Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
Real Life
as Lipton
1983
The Return of the Soldier
as Stephen
Ascendancy
as Officer
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
1978
Daphne Laureola
as Bill
1977
The Country Wife
as Sparkish