Michael Byrne
Acting
Michael Byrne was a British actor sometimes cast as Nazis such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Major Schroeder in Force 10 from Navarone, Reinhard Beck in The Scarlet and the Black, General Olbricht in The Plot to Kill Hitler and Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in the BBC radio dramatisation of the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris. Also seen as the aged but fanatical SS General Neurath in "Outpost 2 - Black Sun", former concentration camp commandant and involved in the Nazis's sinister reality-shifting experiments. Byrne appeared as a Jewish concentration camp survivor who is instrumental in the capture of a Nazi war criminal (played by Ian McKellen) in the film Apt Pupil. He was also familiar to audiences as Smythe, a soldier who attempts to rape William Wallace's wife and first inspires Wallace to seek independence from England in the film Braveheart. His other film credits include The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far, The Medusa Touch, The Saint, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Good Father, The Sum of All Fears, Gangs of New York and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. On television, heappeared in Z-Cars, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals, The Devil's Crown,Smiley's People, Yes, Prime Minister, Lord Mountbatten - the Last Viceroy, Between The Lines, Sharpe, The Mists of Avalon, Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Honest, Hamish Macbeth, and Casualty. From April 2008 to January 2010, Michael starred in Coronation Street, as Ted Page, Gail Platt's long lost father and the ex-lover of Audrey Roberts. Byrne appeared in State of Play at the Edinburgh Festival written by Zia Trench. He played Romeo to Siân Phillips' Juliet at the Bristol Old Vic. He was the father of actress Allie Byrne.
Known for
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tvBodies
2023
Old Mullins
movieThe Gold Machine
2022
Andrew Norton
movieIntrigo: Samaria
2019
Commissioner Keller
movieAlien Overlords
2018
Michael
movieThe Last Witness
2018
Coroner
tvStrike
2017
Roy Phipps
tvThe Living and the Dead
2016
Ebenezer Alsop
tvAgatha Raisin
2016
Bishop Parsons
movieHarry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015
Sir Charles Harwood
tvCuffs
2015
Leslie Kane
movieMortdecai
2015
The Duke
movieThe First Line
2014
Richard
movieDiana
2013
Christiaan Barnard
tvCrossing Lines
2013
Edward Baxendale
movieQuartet
2012
Frank White
movieOutpost: Black Sun
2012
Neurath
tvThe Body Farm
2011
Harold Penton
movieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Gellert Grindelwald
movieThe Mark of Cain
2007
Lieut General Strathairn
tvEmpire
2005
Cicero
movieBeyond the Sea
2004
Dr. Andretti
movieThe Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Emil Wetterstedt
movieThe Crooked Man
2003
Archie Saunders
movieGangs of New York
2002
Horace Greeley
movieThe Sum of All Fears
2002
Anatoli Grushkov
movieSunday
2002
Lord Widgery
movieThe Musketeer
2001
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
tvWaking the Dead
2001
Joe Brackley
movieProof of Life
2000
Lord Luthan
movieBattlefield Earth
2000
Parson Staffer
movieMauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999
Mr. Carruthers
tvThe Vice
1999
Solicitor
movieApt Pupil
1998
Ben Kramer
movie30 Years to Life
1998
Oliver Mather
movieHornblower: The Even Chance
1998
Captain Keene
tvHornblower
1998
Captain Keene
movieImogen's Face
1998
Patrick
movieGunshy
1998
Lange
movieTomorrow Never Dies
1997
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
movieThe Saint
1997
Vereshagin
tvMidsomer Murders
1997
Keith Grundy
tvThe Practice
1997
Officer (uncredited)
movieThe Fix
1997
Sam Campbell
tvNo Bananas
1996
Edward Grant
movieThe Infiltrator
1995
Dieter Creutz
movieBraveheart
1995
Smythe
tvHamish Macbeth
1995
Duncan Scott
movieNostradamus
1994
Inquisitor
movieA Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994
Blank/German/Old Geezer
movieSharpe's Honour
1994
Major Nairn
movieSharpe's Enemy
1994
Major Nairn
movieSharpe's Company
1994
Major Nairn
movieHildegard
1994
Volmar
tvSharpe
1993
Major Nairn
tvA Touch of Frost
1992
Alex Ormrod
movieRunning Late
1992
Clitheroe
tvThe Chief
1990
Sir Robert Eaton
movieThe Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
Friedrich Olbricht
tvScreen One
1989
Clitheroe
tvSaracen
1989
Col. Patrick Ansell
movieBuster
1988
Poyser
movieThe Happy Valley
1987
John Carberry
tvThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
DCC Charles Griswold
tvLord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
1986
George Abell
movieThe Good Father
1985
Leonard Scruby
movieIn the Secret State
1985
Guy Preger
tvScreen Two
1985
Guy Preger
tvEllis Island
1984
Dr. Carl Travers
movieChampions
1984
Richard Hussey
movieThe Scarlet and the Black
1983
Reinhard Beck
movieThe Tragedy of Richard III
1983
Duke of Buckingham
movieHenry VI Part 3
1983
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
movieHenry VI Part 2
1983
John Hume / Lieutenant
movieHenry VI Part 1
1983
Duke of Alencon
Man and Superman
1982
Henry Straker
tvSmiley's People
1982
Peter Guillam
movieThe Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Demosthenes
tvThe Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Demosthenes
movieThe Silence of the Sea
1980
Werner Von Ebrennac
tvLady Killers
1980
Edward Marshall-Hall / Edward Marshall-Hall KC
tvThe Enigma Files
1980
David Stanley
movieTales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979
Ratrick Marney
movieComing Out
1979
Gunnar Wedelman
tvTales of the Unexpected
1979
Patrick Marney
Accident
1978
Ian Shaw
movieForce 10 from Navarone
1978
Schroeder
tvStrangers
1978
Sgt Briscoe
tvThe Devil's Crown
1978
Richard Lionheart
tvThe Professionals
1977
Werner Dreisinger
Premiere
1977
Werner Von Ebrennac
tvSecret Army
1977
Paul Vercors
movieA Bridge Too Far
1977
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
movieRogue Male
1976
Interrogator
movieThe Omen
1976
Monk (uncredited)
movieBreak In
1975
Clarke
movieConduct Unbecoming
1975
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
movieVampyres
1974
Playboy
movieButley
1974
Reg Nuttall
tvThriller
1973
Richard Lovell
movieHenry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
Edward Seymour
tvNew Scotland Yard
1972
DS Patten
tvPlay for Today
1970
Russell / Bruce
movieThe Image
1969
The Artist
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Viskovsky
movieThe Scarlet Blade
1963
Lt. Hawke
tvCoronation Street
1960
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