Michael Cochrane
Born in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK — May 19 1947
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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 appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, first…
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Doctor Who
Lord Cranleigh
The Crown
Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten
Call the Midwife
Sir Brigham Aylward
Father Brown
Bishop Yorke
Heartbeat
Derek Lightfoot
Downton Abbey
Reverend Travis
BBC Play of the Month
Sparkish
Spooks
Ross Vaughan
A Touch of Frost
Babcock, HMI
Agatha Raisin
Sir Desmond
Pie in the Sky
Julian Tubbs
Wycliffe
Mr. Price
The Chief
Nigel Crimmond
Jonathan Creek
Owen Glendower
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Swithun Riding
Monarch of the Glen
Sharpe
Sir Henry Simmerson
Howards' Way
Pierre Challon
The Musketeers
The Outlaws
Mr Kingsley
The Darling Buds of May
Wing Commander Honeyman
Vicious
Jasper
Rosemary & Thyme
Franklin Danvers
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Captain Smith
The Pallisers
Gerald
Man Down
Wire in the Blood
Judge Hynes
My Spy Family
Lord Bollingstock
Keen Eddie
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Dennis Radcliffe
Murphy's Law
Livingston
Fortunes of War
Clifford
Sharpe's Sword
Sir Henry Simmerson
Wings
Charles Gaylion
The Escape Artist
Judge
No Job for a Lady
Richard Monkton
Cradle to Grave
Judge
Laurence Olivier Presents
Bill
Longitude
Solicitor
Dear John
Roger
Decline and Fall
Prosecutor
Mutual Friends
Judge
The Saint
Cold Fusion Broker
Living
Sir James
The Iron Lady
William
Perfect World
Terence Bentley (The Director)
Love in a Cold Climate
Cedric Hampton
The Ambassador
The Far Pavilions
Crimpley
Escape to Victory
Farrell
I Hate You
Leonard
Sticks and Stones
Clayton
Nancherrow
The Uninvited
The Cry
Nathaniel Weekly
Longitude
Waddington, Gould's solicitor
The Return of the Soldier
Stephen
99-1
Charlwood
Sharpe: The Legend
Simmerson
Sharpe's Eagle
Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson
Incognito
Detective Inspector Deeks
Sharpe's Challenge
Simmerson
Margaret
Alan Clark
Coalition
Senior Tory MP Buchanan
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Winston Churchill
Sharpe's Peril
Simmerson
A Different Loyalty
Dick Madsen
Nancherrow
Sir George Rawlings
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Sir Waldron Smithers
A Murder of Quality
Charles Hecht
Run For Your Wife
Man on Bus
Frankenstein
Henry Clervell
Sharpe's Regiment
Sir Henry Simmerson
Real Life
Lipton
Reversals
Derek Barry
The Return of Sam McCloud
Geraint Davies
The Government Inspector
Sir Richard Dearlove
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
HG Wells: War with the World
Minister
Holy Flying Circus
Malcolm Muggeridge
Ascendancy
Officer
Tell Me That You Love Me
Geoff
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Charles Masterman
Panto!
Johnny
The Cry
Nathaniel Wakely
Daphne Laureola
Bill
Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Lord Lyttleton
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Arnold Ridley
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Ian MacGregor
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Redvers Fenn-Cooper
Hay Fever
Sandy Tyrell
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
The Country Wife
Sparkish
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Lord Cranleigh
The Innocent
Harold Haig
Number One Gun
Flash Fairmaid
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Self - Archie Pennington-Booth