Michael Byrne
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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
Credits
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
as Gellert Grindelwald
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
as Vogel
Braveheart (1995)
as Smythe
Gangs of New York (2002)
as Horace Greeley
Mortdecai (2015)
as The Duke
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
as Anatoli Grushkov
The Omen (1976)
as Monk (uncredited)
The Saint (1997)
as Vereshagin
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Musketeer (2001)
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Karl
Battlefield Earth (2000)
as Parson Staffer
Proof of Life (2000)
as Lord Luthan
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
as Elder
Intrigo: Samaria (2019)
as Commissioner Keller
Apt Pupil (1998)
as Ben Kramer
Gunshy (1998)
as Lange
The Image (1969)
as The Artist
Vampyres (1974)
as Playboy
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
as Schroeder
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Reinhard Beck
Quartet (2012)
as Frank White
The Infiltrator (1995)
as Dieter Creutz
Sharpe's Company (1994)
as Major Nairn
Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
as Neurath
Diana (2013)
as Christiaan Barnard
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Nairn
The Medusa Touch (1978)
as Duff
Wednesday Love (1975)
as Bruce
The Gold Machine (2022)
as Andrew Norton
The Last Witness (2018)
as Coroner
Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
as Keller
Beyond the Sea (2004)
as Dr. Andretti
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
as Captain Keene
Hildegard (1994)
as Volmar
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
as Claudio
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
as Bolek
The Holocaust on Trial (2000)
as Richard Rampton QC
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
as Friedrich Olbricht
Buster (1988)
as Poyser
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
as Chorus
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1997)
as Venables
Imogen's Face (1998)
as Patrick
The Happy Valley (1987)
as John Carberry
The First Line (2014)
as Richard
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Edward Seymour
Nostradamus (1994)
as Inquisitor
Champions (1984)
as Richard Hussey
Alien Overlords (2018)
as Michael
The Good Father (1985)
as Leonard Scruby
The Mark of Cain (2007)
as Lieut General Strathairn
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
as Major Nairn
Man and Superman (1982)
as Henry Straker
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter (2015)
as Sir Charles Harwood
30 Years to Life (1998)
as Oliver Mather
Deadly Voyage (1996)
as Commissioner
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)
as Mr. Carruthers
Henry VI Part 2 (1983)
as John Hume / Lieutenant
Murderous Decisions (1991)
as Octave
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983)
as Antonio
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
as Emil Wetterstedt
Sharpe's Honour (1994)
as Major Nairn
Rogue Male (1976)
as Interrogator
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
as Lt. Hawke
Ms or Jill and Jack (1974)
Actor
Break In (1975)
as Clarke
Butley (1974)
as Reg Nuttall
Henry VI Part 3 (1983)
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
If It's a Man – Hang Up! (1975)
as Richard Lovell
Henry VI Part 1 (1983)
as Duke of Alencon
Sunday (2002)
as Lord Widgery
Running Late (1992)
as Clitheroe
The Silent Playground (1963)
as Roger
The Tragedy of Richard III (1983)
as Duke of Buckingham
Coming Out (1979)
as Gunnar Wedelman
Bjorn of the Dead (—)
as Derek
The Crooked Man (2003)
as Archie Saunders
The Fix (1997)
as Sam Campbell
The Madness: Scenes from the Spanish Civil War (1976)
as Gorev
In the Secret State (1985)
as Guy Preger
The Silence of the Sea (1980)
as Werner Von Ebrennac
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (1994)
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (1979)
as Ratrick Marney
Headmaster (1974)
Actor