Michael Byrne
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Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles 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 is 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, he has appeared 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. It is not known whether he will return to the show. 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. Father of actress Allie Byrne.
Known for
Credits
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
as Gellert Grindelwald
Braveheart (1995)
as Smythe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
as Vogel
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
as Anatoli Grushkov
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
The Omen (1976)
as Monk (uncredited)
Gangs of New York (2002)
as Horace Greeley
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
Mortdecai (2015)
as The Duke
The Saint (1997)
as Vereshagin
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Karl
Apt Pupil (1998)
as Ben Kramer
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Edward Seymour
Battlefield Earth (2000)
as Parson Staffer
Vampyres (1974)
as Playboy
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Reinhard Beck
The Musketeer (2001)
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
as Elder
Proof of Life (2000)
as Lord Luthan
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
as Schroeder
Diana (2013)
as Christiaan Barnard
Intrigo: Samaria (2019)
as Commissioner Keller
Quartet (2012)
as Frank White
Beyond the Sea (2004)
as Dr. Andretti
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
as Major Nairn
The Medusa Touch (1978)
as Duff
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
as Bolek
Rogue Male (1976)
as Interrogator
Gunshy (1998)
as Lange
The Fix (1997)
as Sam Campbell
The Good Father (1985)
as Leonard Scruby
The Last Witness (2018)
as Coroner
Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
as Neurath
Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
as Keller
Buster (1988)
as Poyser
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
as Captain Keene
The Infiltrator (1995)
as Dieter Creutz
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
as Lt. Hawke
The Happy Valley (1987)
as John Carberry
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Nairn
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Ms or Jill and Jack (1974)
Actor
Champions (1984)
as Richard Hussey
Running Late (1992)
as Clitheroe
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1997)
as Venables
Butley (1974)
as Reg Nuttall
The Mark of Cain (2007)
as Lieut General Strathairn
Nostradamus (1994)
as Inquisitor
The First Line (2014)
as Richard
Sharpe's Honour (1994)
as Major Nairn
Coming Out (1979)
as Gunnar Wedelman
Sharpe's Company (1994)
as Major Nairn
Sunday (2002)
as Lord Widgery
The Image (1969)
as The Artist
30 Years to Life (1998)
as Oliver Mather
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
as Claudio
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter (2015)
as Sir Charles Harwood
Alien Overlords (2018)
as Michael
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
as Emil Wetterstedt
Henry VI Part 3 (1983)
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren (2015)
Actor
Henry VI Part 1 (1983)
as Duke of Alencon
The Crooked Man (2003)
as Archie Saunders
Man and Superman (1982)
as Henry Straker
Henry VI Part 2 (1983)
as John Hume / Lieutenant
The Tragedy of Richard III (1983)
as Duke of Buckingham
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
as Friedrich Olbricht
The Gold Machine (2022)
as Andrew Norton
The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)
as Demosthenes
Hildegard (1994)
as Volmar
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
as Chorus
Wednesday Love (1975)
as Bruce
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (1994)
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
Break In (1975)
as Clarke
In the Secret State (1985)
as Guy Preger
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (1979)
as Ratrick Marney
Murderous Decisions (1991)
as Octave
Bjorn of the Dead (—)
as Derek
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)
as Mr. Carruthers
The Silent Playground (1963)
as Roger
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983)
as Antonio
Imogen's Face (1998)
as Patrick
If It's a Man – Hang Up! (1975)
as Richard Lovell
The Silence of the Sea (1980)
as Werner Von Ebrennac
Headmaster (1974)
Actor