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Home/People/Michael Cochrane
Michael Cochrane profile photo
Born
May 19, 1947
Age 78
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

46
Movies
53
TV Shows
IMDb Profile

Michael Cochrane

Acting

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.
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2022
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RSC Live: Twelfth Night

as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2018
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as Arnold Ridley
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as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2015
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as Ian MacGregor
2014
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Panto!

as Johnny
2012
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as Man on Bus
2012
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The Iron Lady

as William
2011
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Holy Flying Circus

as Malcolm Muggeridge
2011
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Margaret

as Alan Clark
2009
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Sharpe's Peril

as Simmerson
2008
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

as Sir Waldron Smithers
2008
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HG Wells: War with the World

as Minister
2006
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Sharpe's Challenge

as Simmerson
2006
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The Government Inspector

as Sir Richard Dearlove
2005
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Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore

as Lord Lyttleton
2005
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A Different Loyalty

as Dick Madsen
2004
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Reversals

as Derek Barry
2003
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The Falklands Play

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