Michael Byrne
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.
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Movies (87)
The Gold Machine
2022 · Andrew Norton
Intrigo: Samaria
2019 · Commissioner Keller
Alien Overlords
2018 · Michael
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018 · Keller
The Last Witness
2018 · Coroner
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015 · Sir Charles Harwood
Mortdecai
2015 · The Duke
The First Line
2014 · Richard
Diana
2013 · Christiaan Barnard
Quartet
2012 · Frank White
Outpost: Black Sun
2012 · Neurath
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Gellert Grindelwald
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009 · Elder
The Mark of Cain
2007 · Lieut General Strathairn
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Stunt Double
Beyond the Sea
2004 · Dr. Andretti
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004 · Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
2003 · Archie Saunders
Gangs of New York
2002 · Horace Greeley
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Anatoli Grushkov
Sunday
2002 · Lord Widgery
The Musketeer
2001 · Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Prueba de vida
2000 · Lord Luthan
Batalla final: Tierra
2000 · Parson Staffer
The Holocaust on Trial
2000 · Richard Rampton QC
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999 · Mr. Carruthers
Apt Pupil
1998 · Ben Kramer
30 Years to Life
1998 · Oliver Mather
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998 · Captain Keene
Imogen's Face
1998 · Patrick
Gunshy
1998 · Lange
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Nairn
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997 · Venables
The Island on Bird Street
1997 · Bolek
The Saint
1997 · Vereshagin
The Fix
1997 · Sam Campbell
Deadly Voyage
1996 · Commissioner
The Infiltrator
1995 · Dieter Creutz
Braveheart
1995 · Smythe
Nostradamus
1994 · Inquisitor
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994 · Blank/German/Old Geezer
Sharpe's Honour
1994 · Major Nairn
Sharpe's Enemy
1994 · Major Nairn
Sharpe's Company
1994 · Major Nairn
Hildegard
1994 · Volmar
Running Late
1992 · Clitheroe
Murderous Decisions
1991 · Octave
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990 · Friedrich Olbricht
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Vogel
Buster
1988 · Poyser
The Happy Valley
1987 · John Carberry
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · Chorus
The Good Father
1985 · Leonard Scruby
In the Secret State
1985 · Guy Preger
Champions
1984 · Richard Hussey
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1983 · Antonio
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Reinhard Beck
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983 · Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI Part 3
1983 · Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 2
1983 · John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 1
1983 · Duke of Alencon
Man and Superman
1982 · Henry Straker
The Silence of the Sea
1980 · Werner Von Ebrennac
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979 · Ratrick Marney
Coming Out
1979 · Gunnar Wedelman
Force 10 from Navarone
1978 · Schroeder
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Duff
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Karl
Rogue Male
1976 · Interrogator
The Madness: Scenes from the Spanish Civil War
1976 · Gorev
The Omen
1976 · Monk (uncredited)
Break In
1975 · Clarke
Conduct Unbecoming
1975 · 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Wednesday Love
1975 · Bruce
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
1975 · Richard Lovell
Vampyres
1974 · Playboy
Headmaster
1974
Butley
1974 · Reg Nuttall
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 · Edward Seymour
The Image
1969 · The Artist
Much Ado About Nothing
1967 · Claudio
The Silent Playground
1963 · Roger
The Scarlet Blade
1963 · Lt. Hawke
Bjorn of the Dead
· Derek
TV shows (55)
Cadáveres
2023 · Old Mullins
Strike
2017 · Roy Phipps
The Living and the Dead
2016 · Ebenezer Alsop
Agatha Raisin
2016 · Bishop Parsons
Cuffs
2015 · Leslie Kane
Crossing Lines
2013 · Edward Baxendale
The Body Farm
2011 · Harold Penton
Empire
2005 · Cicero
Double the Fist
2004
Ultimate Force
2002
The Mists of Avalon
2001 · Merlin
Waking the Dead
2001 · Joe Brackley
The Vice
1999 · Solicitor
Hornblower
1998 · Captain Keene
Heat of the Sun
1998
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Keith Grundy
The Practice
1997 · Officer (uncredited)
No Bananas
1996 · Edward Grant
Silent Witness
1996
Oliver's Travels
1995 · Moody
Hamish Macbeth
1995 · Duncan Scott
Sharpe
1993 · Major Nairn
A Touch of Frost
1992 · Alex Ormrod
Between the Lines
1992
The Chief
1990 · Sir Robert Eaton
Screen One
1989 · Clitheroe
Saracen
1989 · Col. Patrick Ansell
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · DCC Charles Griswold
A Sort of Innocence
1986
Sunday Premiere
1986 · John Carberry
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
1986 · George Abell
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
Screen Two
1985 · Guy Preger
Ellis Island
1984 · Dr. Carl Travers
The Bill
1984
Smiley's People
1982 · Peter Guillam
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981 · Demosthenes
Lady Killers
1980 · Edward Marshall-Hall KC, Edward Marshall-Hall
The Enigma Files
1980 · David Stanley
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Patrick Marney
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Antonio
Accident
1978 · Ian Shaw
Strangers
1978 · Sgt Briscoe
The Devil's Crown
1978 · Richard Lionheart
The Professionals
1977 · Werner Dreisinger
Premiere
1977 · Werner Von Ebrennac
Secret Army
1977 · Paul Vercors
Edward the Seventh
1975 · Fritz
Thriller
1973 · Richard Lovell
Crown Court
1972
New Scotland Yard
1972 · DS Patten
Play for Today
1970 · Russell, Bruce
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Jason
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Viskovsky
Coronation Street
1960 · Ted Page