- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 19, 1947
- Place of Birth
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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 Doc…
Filmography
movieTo the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
2024 · Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
movieLiving
2022 · Sir James
tvI Hate You
2022 · Leonard
tvThe Outlaws
2021 · Mr Kingsley
tvSticks and Stones
2019 · Clayton
movieRSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018 · Sir Andrew Aguecheek
tvDecline and Fall
2017 · Prosecutor
tvThe Crown
2016 · Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
tvAgatha Raisin
2016 · Sir Desmond
movieWe're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015 · Arnold Ridley
tvCradle to Grave
2015 · Judge
movieCoalition
2015 · Senior Tory MP Buchanan
movieHampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
2014 · Ian MacGregor
tvThe Musketeers
2014
tvThe Escape Artist
2013 · Judge
tvMan Down
2013
tvVicious
2013 · Jasper
tvFather Brown
2013 · Bishop Yorke
moviePanto!
2012 · Johnny
movieRun For Your Wife
2012 · Man on Bus
tvTitanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · Captain Smith
tvCall the Midwife
2012 · Sir Brigham Aylward
movieThe Iron Lady
2011 · William
movieHoly Flying Circus
2011 · Malcolm Muggeridge
tvDownton Abbey
2010 · Reverend Travis
movieMargaret
2009 · Alan Clark
movieSharpe's Peril
2008 · Simmerson
tvMutual Friends
2008 · Judge
movieMargaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008 · Sir Waldron Smithers
tvMy Spy Family
2007 · Lord Bollingstock
movieHG Wells: War with the World
2006 · Minister
movieSharpe's Challenge
2006 · Simmerson
movieThe Government Inspector
2005 · Sir Richard Dearlove
movieKenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
2005 · Lord Lyttleton
movieA Different Loyalty
2004 · Dick Madsen
Reversals
movieReversals
2003 · Derek Barry
tvRosemary & Thyme
2003 · Franklin Danvers
tvKeen Eddie
2003
tvWire in the Blood
2002 · Judge Hynes
tvSpooks
2002 · Ross Vaughan
movieThe Falklands Play
2002 · Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Cry
movieThe Cry
2002 · Nathaniel Wakely
tvThe Cry
2002 · Nathaniel Weekly
tvMurphy's Law
2001 · Livingston
The Innocent
movieThe Innocent
2001 · Harold Haig
tvMonarch of the Glen
2000
tvPerfect World
2000 · Terence Bentley (The Director)
movieLongitude
2000 · Waddington, Gould's solicitor
tvLongitude
2000 · Solicitor
tvNancherrow
1999
movieNancherrow
1999 · Sir George Rawlings
tvThe Ambassador
1998
movieIncognito
1997 · Detective Inspector Deeks
movieSharpe: The Legend
1997 · Simmerson
tvThe Uninvited
1997
tvJonathan Creek
1997 · Owen Glendower
movieThe Saint
1997 · Cold Fusion Broker
movieSharpe's Regiment
1996 · Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
movieSharpe's Sword
1995 · Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
tvWycliffe
1994 · Mr. Price
tvPie in the Sky
1994 · Julian Tubbs
tv99-1
1994 · Charlwood
movieSharpe's Eagle
1993 · Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
tvSharpe
1993 · Sir Henry Simmerson
tvA Touch of Frost
1992 · Babcock, HMI
movieA Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992 · Winston Churchill
tvHeartbeat
1992 · Derek Lightfoot, Stephen Quinn, Cunningham
movieA Murder of Quality
1991 · Charles Hecht
movieTell Me That You Love Me
1991 · Geoff
tvThe Darling Buds of May
1991 · Wing Commander Honeyman
tvThe Chief
1990 · Nigel Crimmond
tvNo Job for a Lady
1990 · Richard Monkton
movieNumber One Gun
1990 · Flash Fairmaid
movieThe Return of Sam McCloud
1989 · Geraint Davies
movieDoctor Who: Ghost Light
1989 · Redvers Fenn-Cooper
tvFortunes of War
1987 · Clifford
tvThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Swithun Riding
tvDear John
1986 · Roger
tvHowards' Way
1985 · Pierre Challon
The Detective
tvThe Detective
1985 · David Marchwint
movieHay Fever
1984 · Sandy Tyrell
movieFrankenstein
1984 · Henry Clervell
movieReal Life
1984 · Lipton
tvThe Far Pavilions
1984 · Crimpley
tvAgatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983 · Dennis Radcliffe
movieThe Return of the Soldier
1983 · Stephen
movieAscendancy
1983 · Officer
movieDoctor Who: Black Orchid
1982 · Lord Cranleigh
movieEscape to Victory
1981 · Farrell
movieThe Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981 · Charles Masterman
tvLove in a Cold Climate
1980 · Cedric Hampton
movieDaphne Laureola
1978 · Bill
movieThe Country Wife
1977 · Sparkish
tvWings
1977 · Charles Gaylion
tvLaurence Olivier Presents
1976 · Bill
tvThe Pallisers
1974 · Gerald
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965 · Sparkish
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Lord Cranleigh