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). 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
Henry Clervell
Frankenstein
The Saint
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Falklands Play
Geoff
Tell Me That You Love Me
Charles Hecht
A Murder of Quality
Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Longitude
Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Eagle
Dick Madsen
A Different Loyalty
Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Sword
Sir Henry Simmerson
Sharpe's Regiment
Lipton
Real Life
Simmerson
Sharpe's Peril
Geraint Davies
The Return of Sam McCloud
Sir James
Living
Man on Bus
Run For Your Wife
Flash Fairmaid
Number One Gun
Johnny
Panto!
Alan Clark
Margaret
Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Arnold Ridley
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Sir Waldron Smithers
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Winston Churchill
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Sparkish
The Country Wife
Sir Richard Dearlove
The Government Inspector
Simmerson
Sharpe: The Legend
William
The Iron Lady
Nathaniel Wakely
The Cry
Derek Barry
Reversals
Senior Tory MP Buchanan
Coalition
Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Bill
Daphne Laureola
Charles Masterman
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Simmerson
Sharpe's Challenge
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Detective Inspector Deeks
Incognito
Harold Haig
The Innocent
Sandy Tyrell
Hay Fever
Officer
Ascendancy
Minister
HG Wells: War with the World
Sir George Rawlings
Nancherrow
Lord Lyttleton
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Ian MacGregor
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Farrell
Escape to Victory
Stephen
The Return of the Soldier
Lord Cranleigh
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Malcolm Muggeridge
Holy Flying Circus
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
46
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-05-19
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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