Michael Cochrane

Michael Cochrane

Born 1947-05-19 (age 79) Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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Biography

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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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Known For

Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory

1981

as Farrell

The Saint
The Saint

1997

as Cold Fusion Broker

The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady

2011

as William

Living
Living

2022

as Sir James

Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe's Regiment

1996

as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson

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Reversals

2003

as Derek Barry

Incognito
Incognito

1997

as Detective Inspector Deeks

A Different Loyalty
A Different Loyalty

2004

as Dick Madsen

Sharpe: The Legend
Sharpe: The Legend

1997

as Simmerson

Longitude
Longitude

2000

as Waddington, Gould's solicitor

A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality

1991

as Charles Hecht

Sharpe's Challenge
Sharpe's Challenge

2006

as Simmerson

Sharpe's Peril
Sharpe's Peril

2008

as Simmerson

The Return of the Soldier
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe's Eagle

1993

as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson

The Falklands Play
The Falklands Play

2002

as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Coalition
Coalition

2015

as Senior Tory MP Buchanan

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia