Birthday
1947/05/19 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
(1984) Frankenstein
as Henry Clervell
(1997) The Saint
as ---
(2002) The Falklands Play
as Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
(1991) Tell Me That You Love Me
as Geoff
(1991) A Murder of Quality
as Charles Hecht
(2000) Longitude
as Waddington, Gould's solicitor
(1993) Sharpe's Eagle
as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
(2004) A Different Loyalty
as Dick Madsen
(1995) Sharpe's Sword
as Sir Henry Simmerson
(1996) Sharpe's Regiment
as Sir Henry Simmerson
(1984) Real Life
as Lipton
(2008) Sharpe's Peril
as Simmerson
(1989) The Return of Sam McCloud
as Geraint Davies
(2022) Living
as Sir James
(2012) Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
(1990) Number One Gun
as Flash Fairmaid
(2012) Panto!
as Johnny
(2009) Margaret
as Alan Clark
(2024) To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
(2015) We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
as Arnold Ridley
(2008) Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
as Sir Waldron Smithers
(1992) A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Winston Churchill
(1977) The Country Wife
as Sparkish
(2005) The Government Inspector
as Sir Richard Dearlove
(1997) Sharpe: The Legend
as Simmerson
(2011) The Iron Lady
as William
(2002) The Cry
as Nathaniel Wakely
(2003) Reversals
as Derek Barry
(2015) Coalition
as Senior Tory MP Buchanan
(1989) Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Redvers Fenn-Cooper
(1978) Daphne Laureola
as Bill
(1981) The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Charles Masterman
(2006) Sharpe's Challenge
as Simmerson
(2018) RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(1997) Incognito
as Detective Inspector Deeks
(2001) The Innocent
as Harold Haig
(1984) Hay Fever
as Sandy Tyrell
(1983) Ascendancy
as Officer
(2006) HG Wells: War with the World
as Minister
(1999) Nancherrow
as Sir George Rawlings
(2005) Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
as Lord Lyttleton
(2014) Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
as Ian MacGregor
(1981) Escape to Victory
as Farrell
(1983) The Return of the Soldier
as Stephen
(1982) Doctor Who: Black Orchid
as Lord Cranleigh
(1990) No Job for a Lady
as ---
(1997) The Uninvited
as ---
(1963) Doctor Who
as Lord Cranleigh
(2012) Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Captain Smith
(2000) Perfect World
as ---
(1977) Wings
as Charles Gaylion
(1974) The Pallisers
as ---
(2010) Downton Abbey
as Reverend Travis
(1993) Sharpe
as Sir Henry Simmerson
(1985) Howards' Way
as Pierre Challon
(1990) The Chief
as ---
(2003) Rosemary & Thyme
as Franklin Danvers
(2013) Man Down
as ---
(1994) 99-1
as Charlwood
(2000) Monarch of the Glen
as ---
(2001) Murphy's Law
as ---
(1987) The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Swithun Riding
(1987) Fortunes of War
as Clifford
(2008) Mutual Friends
as Judge
(2003) Keen Eddie
as ---
(1976) Laurence Olivier Presents
as Bill
(1998) The Ambassador
as ---
(2014) The Musketeers
as ---
(1979) To the Manor Born
as Archie Pennington-Booth
(2013) Vicious
as ---
(1997) Jonathan Creek
as Owen Glendower
(1986) Dear John
as ---
(2002) Wire in the Blood
as ---
(2016) The Crown
as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
(1994) Pie in the Sky
as Julian Tubbs
(1992) A Touch of Frost
as Babcock, HMI
(1992) Heartbeat
as Derek Lightfoot
(1999) Nancherrow
as ---
(1980) Love in a Cold Climate
as Cedric Hampton
(2017) Decline and Fall
as Prosecutor
(1983) Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
as Dennis Radcliffe
(1994) Wycliffe
as Mr. Price
(2022) I Hate You
as Leonard
(1990) Keeping Up Appearances
as The Ship's Officer
(2002) Spooks
as Ross Vaughan
(2012) Call the Midwife
as Sir Brigham Aylward
(2000) Longitude
as Waddington
(1992) Heartbeat
as Stephen Quinn
(1992) Heartbeat
as Cunningham
(2019) Sticks and Stones
as Clayton
(2021) The Outlaws
as Mr Kingsley
(2002) The Cry
as Nathaniel Weekly
(2007) My Spy Family
as Lord Bollingstock
(2016) Agatha Raisin
as Sir Desmond
(1984) The Far Pavilions
as Crimpley
(2013) The Escape Artist
as Judge