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.

Filmography

• Beyond Paradise — Kenneth Linder
• I Hate You — Leonard
• 2022Living — Sir James
• The Outlaws — Mr Kingsley
• Sticks and Stones — Clayton
• 2018RSC Live: Twelfth Night — Sir Andrew Aguecheek
• Decline and Fall — Prosecutor
• Agatha Raisin — Sir Desmond
• The Crown — Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
• 2015Coalition — Senior Tory MP Buchanan
• Cradle to Grave — Judge
• 2015We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story — Arnold Ridley
• 2014Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland — Ian MacGregor
• The Musketeers
• Father Brown — Bishop Yorke
• Man Down
• The Escape Artist — Judge
• Vicious — Jasper
• Call the Midwife — Sir Brigham Aylward
• 2012Panto! — Johnny
• 2012Run For Your Wife — Man on Bus
• Titanic: Blood and Steel — Captain Smith
• 2011Holy Flying Circus — Malcolm Muggeridge
• 2011The Iron Lady — William
• Downton Abbey — Reverend Travis
• 2009Margaret — Alan Clark
• 2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley — Sir Waldron Smithers
• Mutual Friends — Judge
• 2008Sharpe's Peril — Simmerson
• My Spy Family — Lord Bollingstock
• 2006HG Wells: War with the World — Minister
• 2006Sharpe's Challenge — Simmerson
• 2005Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore — Lord Lyttleton
• 2005The Government Inspector — Sir Richard Dearlove
• 2004A Different Loyalty — Dick Madsen
• The Worst Week of My Life — Rupert
• Keen Eddie
• 2003Reversals — Derek Barry
• Rosemary & Thyme — Franklin Danvers
• Spooks — Ross Vaughan
• The Cry — Nathaniel Weekly
• 2002The Falklands Play — Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
• Wire in the Blood — Judge Hynes
• Murphy's Law — Livingston
• 2001The Innocent — Harold Haig
• 2000Justice in Wonderland — Whiteman
• 2000Longitude — Waddington, Gould's solicitor
• Longitude — Solicitor
• Monarch of the Glen
• Perfect World — Terence Bentley (The Director)
• 1999Nancherrow — Sir George Rawlings
• Nancherrow
• The Ambassador
• 1997Incognito — Detective Inspector Deeks
• Jonathan Creek — Owen Glendower
• 1997Sharpe: The Legend — Simmerson
• 1997The Saint — Cold Fusion Broker
• The Uninvited
• 1996Sharpe's Regiment — Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
• 1995Sharpe's Sword — Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
• 99-1 — Charlwood
• Pie in the Sky — Julian Tubbs
• Wycliffe — Mr. Price
• Sharpe — Sir Henry Simmerson
• 1993Sharpe's Eagle — Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
• 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia — Winston Churchill
• A Touch of Frost — Babcock, HMI
• Heartbeat — Derek Lightfoot, Stephen Quinn, Cunningham
• 1991A Murder of Quality — Charles Hecht
• 1991Tell Me That You Love Me — Geoff
• The Darling Buds of May — Wing Commander Honeyman
• No Job for a Lady — Richard Monkton
• 1990Number One Gun — Flash Fairmaid
• The Chief — Nigel Crimmond
• 1989Doctor Who: Ghost Light — Redvers Fenn-Cooper
• 1989The Return of Sam McCloud — Geraint Davies
• Fortunes of War — Clifford
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Swithun Riding
• Dear John — Roger
• Howards' Way — Pierre Challon
• The Detective — David Marchwint
• 1984Frankenstein — Henry Clervell
• 1984Hay Fever — Sandy Tyrell
• 1984Real Life — Lipton
• The Far Pavilions — Crimpley
• Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime — Dennis Radcliffe
• 1983Ascendancy — Officer
• 1983The Return of the Soldier — Stephen
• 1982Doctor Who: Black Orchid — Lord Cranleigh
• 1981Escape to Victory — Farrell
• 1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd George — Charles Masterman
• Love in a Cold Climate — Cedric Hampton
• 1978Daphne Laureola — Bill
• 1977The Country Wife — Sparkish
• Wings — Charles Gaylion
• Laurence Olivier Presents — Bill
• The Pallisers — Gerald
• BBC Play of the Month — Sparkish
• Doctor Who — Lord Cranleigh, Redvers Fenn-Cooper

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2024To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy — Self - Archie Pennington-Booth