Michael Cochrane was born 19 May, 1947 in Brighton, East Sussex. He is the English actor who portrays Reverend Albert Travis in the second, third and sixth series of Downton Abbey.
He is also known for playing the villain Sir Henry Simmerson in the Sharpe series.
Cochrane also appeared in Doctors, The Musketeers, Wire in the Blood, The Darling Buds of May, The Escape Artist, Micawber, Wycliffe, A Touch of Frost, Vicious, Decline and Fall, The Crown, Cradle to Grave, Wings, The Broker's Man, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Coronation Street, The Chief, New Tricks, Nancherrow, Murphy's Law, Jonathan Creek, Heartbeat, Wire in the Blood, Taggart, Law & Order: UK, 99-1, The Uninvited, Pie in the Sky, Keeping Up Appearances, Monarch of the Glen, To the Manor Born, Spooks, Howard's Way, Rockliffe, No Job for a Lady, Holby City The Brief, The Bill, Agatha Raisin and Doctor Who.