Michael Cochrane
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Biography: 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
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Birthday: May 19, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Frankenstein
Overview: A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-17
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The Saint
Overview: Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-03
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The Falklands Play
Overview: The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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Tell Me That You Love Me
Overview: Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome but mysterious man who believes in old-fashioned love and marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-08
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A Murder of Quality
Overview: At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Longitude
Overview: Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Sharpe's Eagle
Overview: Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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A Different Loyalty
Overview: In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Sharpe's Sword
Overview: Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success
Genres: War History Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Sharpe's Regiment
Overview: Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Real Life
Overview: A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Sharpe's Peril
Overview: Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
Genres: War Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-02
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The Return of Sam McCloud
Overview: Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Living
Overview: London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Run For Your Wife
Overview: John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Number One Gun
Overview: Number 1 has to compete against the mad Russian agent Ace Kissoff, who can change into a woman by just taking a pill.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Panto!
Overview: Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Margaret
Overview: A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-26
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To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Overview: A feature-length special retrospective of one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, with new and archival interviews and footage examining the production and enduring cultural impact of the BBC's 'To the Manor Born'.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-27
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We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Overview: Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-22
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Overview: A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-12
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Overview: In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-18
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The Country Wife
Overview: Directed by Donald McWhinnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-13
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The Government Inspector
Overview: The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Sharpe: The Legend
Overview: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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The Iron Lady
Overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-26
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The Cry
Overview: Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-08
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Reversals
Overview: Young medical professional couple set out to prove that gender is not a factor in the ability to do a job well. Hilarity ensues as they swap jobs, clothes, and gender, in order to see what life is like from a different perspective.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-19
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Coalition
Overview: Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Overview: The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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Daphne Laureola
Overview: A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-15
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Sharpe's Challenge
Overview: Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-23
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RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Overview: Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister... Christopher Luscombe, Director of the ‘glorious’ (Daily Telegraph) Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (2014 and 2016), returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet account of "the whirligig of time".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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Incognito
Overview: Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Innocent
Overview: A happily married housewife is devastated when her husband is accused of rape by her best friend - but who is telling the truth?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-07
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Hay Fever
Overview: Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward's most popular plays.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-04
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Ascendancy
Overview: Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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HG Wells: War with the World
Overview: BBC docudrama telling the story of the father of science fiction, HG Wells, and his ambition to avert mankind's headlong course towards self-destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Nancherrow
Overview: The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
Overview: In 1963, flamboyant, eccentric English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan is made 'literary manager' of London's National Theatre. His views on censorship (can't stand it) and sexuality (as much of it onstage as possible) set him on a collision course with the NT's Chair, Sir Oliver Lyttelton. Demoted after becoming the first person to drop the F-bomb on British TV, Tynan struggles to stage his 'erotic entertainment' "Oh Calcutta" in the face of opposition from friends, family and colleagues, and in spite of his own deteriorating health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland
Overview: The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour. London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash American CEO and an eccentric maverick are the face of a radical Conservative government preparing to do battle with the most powerful workforce, the miners. As the two sides clash, the miners fight for their livelihoods and families, and the government for its vision of a free Britain. Together they change the fabric of the nation forever.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Escape to Victory
Overview: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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The Return of the Soldier
Overview: The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-06
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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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Holy Flying Circus
Overview: A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-19
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