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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Filmography (98)
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
2024
Living
2022
I Hate You
2022
The Outlaws
2021
Sticks and Stones
2019
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018
Decline and Fall
2017
The Crown
2016
Agatha Raisin
2016
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015
Coalition
2015
Cradle to Grave
2015
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
2014
The Musketeers
2014
Man Down
2013
The Escape Artist
2013
Vicious
2013
Father Brown
2013
Run For Your Wife
2012
Panto!
2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
The Iron Lady
2011
Holy Flying Circus
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
Margaret
2009
Sharpe's Peril
2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
Mutual Friends
2008
My Spy Family
2007
Sharpe's Challenge
2006
HG Wells: War with the World
2006
The Government Inspector
2005
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
2005
A Different Loyalty
2004
Reversals
2003
Rosemary & Thyme
2003
Keen Eddie
2003
The Falklands Play
2002
The Cry
2002
Wire in the Blood
2002
Spooks
2002
The Cry
2002
The Innocent
2001
Murphy's Law
2001
Longitude
2000
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Longitude
2000
Perfect World
2000
Nancherrow
1999
Nancherrow
1999
The Ambassador
1998
The Saint
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Incognito
1997
The Uninvited
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
Sharpe's Regiment
1996
Sharpe's Sword
1995
Pie in the Sky
1994
Wycliffe
1994
99-1
1994
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
Sharpe
1993
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
A Touch of Frost
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Tell Me That You Love Me
1991
A Murder of Quality
1991
The Darling Buds of May
1991
Number One Gun
1990
The Chief
1990
No Job for a Lady
1990
The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Fortunes of War
1987
Dear John
1986
Howards' Way
1985
The Detective
1985
Frankenstein
1984
Real Life
1984
Hay Fever
1984
The Far Pavilions
1984
Ascendancy
1983
The Return of the Soldier
1983
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981
Escape to Victory
1981
Love in a Cold Climate
1980
Daphne Laureola
1978
The Country Wife
1977
Wings
1977
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
The Pallisers
1974
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Doctor Who
1963
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