Michael Cochrane
Acting
- Born:
- 1947-05-19
- Place of birth:
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Beyond Paradise
Living
I Hate You
The Outlaws
Sticks and Stones
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Decline and Fall
The Crown
Agatha Raisin
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Cradle to Grave
Coalition
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
The Musketeers
The Escape Artist
Man Down
Vicious
Father Brown
Panto!
Run For Your Wife
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Call the Midwife
The Iron Lady
Holy Flying Circus
Downton Abbey
Margaret
Sharpe's Peril
Mutual Friends
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
My Spy Family
HG Wells: War with the World
Sharpe's Challenge
The Government Inspector
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
A Different Loyalty
The Worst Week of My Life
Reversals
Rosemary & Thyme
Keen Eddie
Wire in the Blood
Spooks
The Falklands Play
The Cry
Murphy's Law
The Innocent
Justice in Wonderland
Monarch of the Glen
Perfect World
Longitude
Longitude
Nancherrow
Nancherrow
The Ambassador
Incognito
Sharpe: The Legend
The Uninvited
Jonathan Creek
The Saint
Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe's Sword
Wycliffe
Pie in the Sky
99-1
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe
A Touch of Frost
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Heartbeat
A Murder of Quality
Tell Me That You Love Me
The Darling Buds of May
The Chief
No Job for a Lady
Number One Gun
The Return of Sam McCloud
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Fortunes of War
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Dear John
Howards' Way
The Detective
Hay Fever
Frankenstein
Real Life
The Far Pavilions
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
The Return of the Soldier
Ascendancy
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Escape to Victory
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Love in a Cold Climate
Daphne Laureola
The Country Wife
Wings
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Pallisers
BBC Play of the Month
Doctor Who