Michael Cochrane
Born
May 19, 1947 (78 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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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.
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2022
The Outlaws
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2021
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2018
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2017
The Crown
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2016
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2016
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2015
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2015
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2014
The Musketeers
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2014
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2011
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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2008
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Sir Waldron Smithers
2008
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2007
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2006
Sharpe's Challenge
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2006
The Government Inspector
Sir Richard Dearlove
2005
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Lord Lyttleton
2005
A Different Loyalty
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2004
Reversals
Derek Barry
2003
Rosemary & Thyme
Franklin Danvers · (1 episode)
2003
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2003
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2002
Spooks
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2002
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002
The Cry
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2002
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Murphy's Law
(1 episode)
2001
The Innocent
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2001
Monarch of the Glen
(1 episode)
2000
Perfect World
(13 episodes)
2000
Longitude
Waddington, Gould's solicitor
2000
Longitude
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2000
Nancherrow
(2 episodes)
1999
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Sir George Rawlings
1999
The Ambassador
(1 episode)
1998
Incognito
Detective Inspector Deeks
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
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1997
The Uninvited
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1997
Jonathan Creek
Owen Glendower · (1 episode)
1997
The Saint
1997
Sharpe's Regiment
Sir Henry Simmerson
1996
Sharpe's Sword
Sir Henry Simmerson
1995
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Mr. Price · (1 episode)
1994
Pie in the Sky
Julian Tubbs · (1 episode)
1994
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Charlwood · (1 episode)
1994
Sharpe's Eagle
Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1993
Sharpe
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1993
A Touch of Frost
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1992
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Winston Churchill
1992
Heartbeat
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1992
Heartbeat
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1992
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1992
A Murder of Quality
Charles Hecht
1991
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1991
The Darling Buds of May
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1991
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(35 episodes)
1990
No Job for a Lady
(18 episodes)
1990
Number One Gun
Flash Fairmaid
1990
The Return of Sam McCloud
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1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1989
Fortunes of War
Clifford · (1 episode)
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Swithun Riding · (3 episodes)
1987
Dear John
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1986
Howards' Way
Pierre Challon · (1 episode)
1985
Hay Fever
Sandy Tyrell
1984
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Henry Clervell
1984
Real Life
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1984
The Far Pavilions
Crimpley · (2 episodes)
1984
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Dennis Radcliffe · (1 episode)
1983
The Return of the Soldier
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1983
Ascendancy
Officer
1983
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Lord Cranleigh
1982
Escape to Victory
Farrell
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Charles Masterman
1981
Love in a Cold Climate
Cedric Hampton · (8 episodes)
1980
Daphne Laureola
Bill
1978
The Country Wife
Sparkish
1977
Wings
Charles Gaylion · (25 episodes)
1977
Laurence Olivier Presents
Bill · (1 episode)
1976
The Pallisers
(26 episodes)
1974
Doctor Who
Lord Cranleigh · (1 episode)
1963