Michael Cochrane
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 19, 1947, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Movies
- 46
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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 |
| 2011 | Holy Flying Circus | Malcolm Muggeridge |
| 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) |
| 2001 | The Innocent | Harold Haig |
| 2000 | Justice in Wonderland | Whiteman |
| 2000 | Longitude | Waddington, Gould's solicitor |
| 1999 | Nancherrow | Sir George Rawlings |
| 1997 | Incognito | Detective Inspector Deeks |
| 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend | Simmerson |
| 1997 | The Saint | Cold Fusion Broker |
| 1996 | Sharpe's Regiment | Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1995 | Sharpe's Sword | Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson |
| 1993 | Sharpe's Eagle | Colonel 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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