Michael Cochrane

Biography

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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.

He has twice appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, first as Charles Cranleigh in the serial "Black Orchid" (1982) and later as Redvers Fenn-Cooper in "Ghost Light" (1989). He was later associated with Doctor Who when he appeared in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama "No Man's Land".

He featured in the ITV science fiction series The Uninvited. In 2008 he appeared in the soap opera Doctors as Daniel's solicitor and in 2009 in Margaret as MP Alan Clark. He appeared in the situation comedy Perfect World as the sex-obsessed marketing director.

Cochrane also starred in the 2002 film Offending Angels with Susannah Harker and Shaun Parkes. He is married to the actress Belinda Carroll.

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Known For

The Outlaws 2021 ★ 7.4
The Crown 2016 ★ 8.2
Agatha Raisin 2016 ★ 6.1
The Musketeers 2014 ★ 7.1
Father Brown 2013 ★ 7.6
Call the Midwife 2012 ★ 7.5
The Iron Lady 2011 ★ 6.4
Downton Abbey 2010 ★ 8.1
Spooks 2002 ★ 7.7
Wire in the Blood 2002 ★ 7.9
Murphy's Law 2001 ★ 7.6
Monarch of the Glen 2000 ★ 7.3
Jonathan Creek 1997 ★ 7.6
The Saint 1997 ★ 6.1
Wycliffe 1994 ★ 6.8
Pie in the Sky 1994 ★ 8.3
Sharpe 1993 ★ 8.0
Heartbeat 1992 ★ 7.2
A Touch of Frost 1992 ★ 7.5
The Chief 1990 ★ 7.0
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries 1987 ★ 6.6
Howards' Way 1985 ★ 5.9
BBC Play of the Month 1965 ★ 5.3
Doctor Who 1963 ★ 7.9