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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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The Saint
1997 · as Cold Fusion Broker

Escape to Victory
1981 · as Farrell

The Iron Lady
2011 · as William

The Cry
2002 · as Nathaniel Wakely

Living
2022 · as Sir James

Sharpe's Eagle
1993 · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson

Sharpe's Sword
1995 · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson

Daphne Laureola
1978 · as Bill

Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · as Simmerson

Sharpe's Regiment
1996 · as Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson

A Different Loyalty
2004 · as Dick Madsen

Incognito
1997 · as Detective Inspector Deeks

A Murder of Quality
1991 · as Charles Hecht

Longitude
2000 · as Waddington, Gould's solicitor

Run For Your Wife
2012 · as Man on Bus

Holy Flying Circus
2011 · as Malcolm Muggeridge

Sharpe's Challenge
2006 · as Simmerson

Sharpe's Peril
2008 · as Simmerson