Michael Cochrane

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 197778 The Citadel 1983 Goodbye Mr Chips 1984 No Job for a Lady The Chief 19901995 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 FennCooper in Ghost Light 1989 He was later associated with Doctor Who when he appeared in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama No Mans Land He featured in the ITV science fiction series The Uninvited In 2008 he appeared in the soap opera Doctors as Daniels solicitor and in 2009 in Margaret as MP Alan Clark He appeared in the situation comedy Perfect World as the sexobsessed 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia