Michael Cochrane

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-05-19 (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...

Acting

1984

Frankenstein

as Henry Clervell

2002

The Falklands Play

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

1991

A Murder of Quality

as Charles Hecht

2000

Longitude

as Waddington, Gould's solicitor

1993

Sharpe's Eagle

as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson

2004

A Different Loyalty

as Dick Madsen

1995

Sharpe's Sword

as Sir Henry Simmerson

1996

Sharpe's Regiment

as Sir Henry Simmerson

1984

Real Life

as Lipton

2008

Sharpe's Peril

as Simmerson

1989

The Return of Sam McCloud

as Geraint Davies

2022

Living

as Sir James

2012

Run For Your Wife

as Man on Bus

1990

Number One Gun

as Flash Fairmaid

2012

Panto!

as Johnny

2009

Margaret

as Alan Clark

2024

To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy

as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth

1977

The Country Wife

as Sparkish

2005

The Government Inspector

as Sir Richard Dearlove

1997

Sharpe: The Legend

as Simmerson

2011

The Iron Lady

as William

2002

The Cry

as Nathaniel Wakely

2003

Reversals

as Derek Barry

2015

Coalition

as Senior Tory MP Buchanan

1989

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

as Redvers Fenn-Cooper

1978

2006

Sharpe's Challenge

as Simmerson

2018

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

1997

Incognito

as Detective Inspector Deeks

2001

The Innocent

as Harold Haig

1984

Hay Fever

as Sandy Tyrell

1983

Ascendancy

as Officer

1999

Nancherrow

as Sir George Rawlings

1981

1982

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

as Lord Cranleigh

2011

Holy Flying Circus

as Malcolm Muggeridge

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