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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 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...
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Doctor WhoSeries • 1963
The CrownSeries • 2016
Father BrownSeries • 2013
Call the MidwifeSeries • 2012
Downton AbbeySeries • 2010
HeartbeatSeries • 1992
SpooksSeries • 2002
A Touch of FrostSeries • 1992
BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965
Beyond ParadiseSeries • 2023
Howards' WaySeries • 1985
Pie in the SkySeries • 1994
The MusketeersSeries • 2014
Jonathan CreekSeries • 1997
The Ruth Rendell MysteriesSeries • 1987
WycliffeSeries • 1994
SharpeSeries • 1993
Monarch of the GlenSeries • 2000
Agatha RaisinSeries • 2016
The OutlawsSeries • 2021
Wire in the BloodSeries • 2002
Rosemary & ThymeSeries • 2003
The ChiefSeries • 1990
Murphy's LawSeries • 2001