Michael Cochrane

Actor May 19 (age 78) Brighton, Sussex, England, UK 1963–2024 (61 year career)

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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

Film

The Iron Lady

William

Film

Escape to Victory

Farrell

Film

Living

Sir James

Film

The Saint

6.1 1997

Film

Sharpe

Sir Henry Simmerson

Film

Longitude

Waddington, Gould's solicitor

Film

Sharpe's Eagle

Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson

Film

Sharpe's Sword

Sir Henry Simmerson

Filmography

Acting (99)

Movies (46)

To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy

2024

as Self - Archie Pennington-Booth

Living

2022

as Sir James

7.0

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

2018

as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

7.5

Coalition

2015

as Senior Tory MP Buchanan

7.0

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

2015

as Arnold Ridley

6.5

Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland

2014

as Ian MacGregor

Panto!

2012

as Johnny

Run For Your Wife

as Man on Bus

The Iron Lady

as William

Holy Flying Circus

as Malcolm Muggeridge

Margaret

as Alan Clark

Sharpe's Peril

as Simmerson

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

as Sir Waldron Smithers

6.8

Sharpe's Challenge

2006

as Simmerson

6.2

HG Wells: War with the World

2006

as Minister

6.5

The Government Inspector

2005

as Sir Richard Dearlove

8.0

Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore

2005

as Lord Lyttleton

A Different Loyalty

as Dick Madsen

Reversals

as Derek Barry

The Cry

as Nathaniel Wakely

The Falklands Play

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

7.3

The Innocent

2001

as Harold Haig

Longitude

2000

as Waddington, Gould's solicitor

7.4

Nancherrow

1999

as Sir George Rawlings

The Saint

Incognito

as Detective Inspector Deeks

Sharpe: The Legend

as Simmerson

Sharpe's Regiment

as Sir Henry Simmerson

7.0

Sharpe's Sword

1995

as Sir Henry Simmerson

7.2

Sharpe's Eagle

1993

as Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson

7.1

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

as Winston Churchill

A Murder of Quality

as Charles Hecht

Tell Me That You Love Me

1991

as Geoff

Number One Gun

1990

as Flash Fairmaid

5.0

The Return of Sam McCloud

1989

as Geraint Davies

6.0

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

1989

as Redvers Fenn-Cooper

Frankenstein

as Henry Clervell

Hay Fever

as Sandy Tyrell

Real Life

as Lipton

The Return of the Soldier

as Stephen

Ascendancy

as Officer

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

as Lord Cranleigh

Escape to Victory

as Farrell

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

1981

as Charles Masterman

Daphne Laureola

1978

as Bill

6.0

The Country Wife

1977

as Sparkish

Television (53)

I Hate You

as Leonard

The Outlaws

as Mr Kingsley

Sticks and Stones

as Clayton

Decline and Fall

as Prosecutor

The Crown

as Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten

Agatha Raisin

as Sir Desmond

Cradle to Grave

as Judge

The Musketeers

Father Brown

as Bishop Yorke

Vicious

as Jasper

Man Down

The Escape Artist

as Judge

Call the Midwife

as Sir Brigham Aylward

7.5

Titanic: Blood and Steel

as Captain Smith

Downton Abbey

as Reverend Travis

Mutual Friends

as Judge

My Spy Family

as Lord Bollingstock

Rosemary & Thyme

as Franklin Danvers

Keen Eddie

Spooks

as Ross Vaughan

Wire in the Blood

The Cry

as Nathaniel Weekly

Murphy's Law

Monarch of the Glen

Longitude

as Solicitor

Perfect World

as Terence Bentley (The Director)

Nancherrow

The Ambassador

Jonathan Creek

as Owen Glendower

The Uninvited

Wycliffe

as Mr. Price

Pie in the Sky

as Julian Tubbs

99-1

as Charlwood

Sharpe

1993

as Sir Henry Simmerson

Heartbeat

as Derek Lightfoot

A Touch of Frost

as Babcock, HMI

The Darling Buds of May

1991

as Wing Commander Honeyman

7.8

Keeping Up Appearances

1990

as The Ship's Officer

The Chief

as Nigel Crimmond

No Job for a Lady

as Richard Monkton

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Swithun Riding

Fortunes of War

as Clifford

Dear John

as Roger

Howards' Way

as Pierre Challon

The Far Pavilions

as Crimpley

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

1983

as Dennis Radcliffe

6.3

Love in a Cold Climate

1980

as Cedric Hampton

6.2

To the Manor Born

1979

as Archie Pennington-Booth

6.9

Wings

1977

as Charles Gaylion

8.5

Laurence Olivier Presents

as Bill

The Pallisers

as Gerald

BBC Play of the Month

as Sparkish

Doctor Who

as Lord Cranleigh