Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy | Self - Archie Pennington-Booth
2022 -- Living | Sir James
2018 -- RSC Live: Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek
2015 -- We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story | Arnold Ridley
2015 -- Coalition | Senior Tory MP Buchanan
2014 -- Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland | Ian MacGregor
2012 -- Panto! | Johnny
2012 -- Run For Your Wife | Man on Bus
2011 -- The Iron Lady | William
2009 -- Margaret | Alan Clark
2008 -- Sharpe's Peril | Simmerson
2008 -- Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Sir Waldron Smithers
2006 -- HG Wells: War with the World | Minister
2006 -- Sharpe's Challenge | Simmerson
2005 -- The Government Inspector | Sir Richard Dearlove
2005 -- Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore | Lord Lyttleton
2004 -- A Different Loyalty | Dick Madsen
2003 -- Reversals | Derek Barry
2002 -- The Falklands Play | Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
2002 -- The Cry | Nathaniel Wakely
2001 -- The Innocent | Harold Haig
2000 -- Longitude | Waddington, Gould's solicitor
1999 -- Nancherrow | Sir George Rawlings
1997 -- Incognito | Detective Inspector Deeks
1997 -- Sharpe: The Legend | Simmerson
1997 -- The Saint |
1996 -- Sharpe's Regiment | Sir Henry Simmerson
1995 -- Sharpe's Sword | Sir Henry Simmerson
1993 -- Sharpe's Eagle | Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
1992 -- A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | Winston Churchill
1991 -- A Murder of Quality | Charles Hecht
1991 -- Tell Me That You Love Me | Geoff
1990 -- Number One Gun | Flash Fairmaid
1989 -- The Return of Sam McCloud | Geraint Davies
1989 -- Doctor Who: Ghost Light | Redvers Fenn-Cooper
1984 -- Hay Fever | Sandy Tyrell
1984 -- Frankenstein | Henry Clervell
1984 -- Real Life | Lipton
1983 -- The Return of the Soldier | Stephen
1983 -- Ascendancy | Officer
1982 -- Doctor Who: Black Orchid | Lord Cranleigh
1981 -- Escape to Victory | Farrell
1981 -- The Life and Times of David Lloyd George | Charles Masterman
1978 -- Daphne Laureola | Bill
1977 -- The Country Wife | Sparkish
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