
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.
Movie Appearances

Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
1984

The Saint
as Cold Fusion Broker
1997

The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002

Tell Me That You Love Me
as Geoff
1991

A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
1991

Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
2000

Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
1993

A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
2004

Sharpe's Sword
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
1995

Sharpe's Regiment
as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson
1996

Real Life
as Lipton
1984

Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
2008

The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
1989

Living
as Sir James
2022

Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
2012

Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
1990

Panto!
as Johnny
2012

Margaret
as Alan Clark
2009

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

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Arnold Ridley
2015
TV Appearances

The Uninvited
1997

Doctor Who
as Lord Cranleigh
1963

Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Captain Smith
2012

Wings
as Charles Gaylion
1977

Downton Abbey
as Reverend Travis
2010

Howards' Way
as Pierre Challon
1985

Sharpe
as Sir Henry Simmerson
1993

Rosemary & Thyme
as Franklin Danvers
2003

Man Down
2013

99-1
as Charlwood
1994

Monarch of the Glen
2000

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Swithun Riding
1987