Michael Byrne
Biography
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
Vogel
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Elder
Blood: The Last Vampire
Vereshagin
The Saint
Horace Greeley
Gangs of New York
Parson Staffer
Battlefield Earth
Demosthenes
The Search for Alexander the Great
Lt. Hawke
The Scarlet Blade
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Musketeer
Dr. Andretti
Beyond the Sea
Karl
The Eagle Has Landed
Playboy
Vampyres
Duff
The Medusa Touch
Poyser
Buster
Dieter Creutz
The Infiltrator
Clitheroe
Running Late
Bolek
The Island on Bird Street
Guy Preger
In the Secret State
Leonard Scruby
The Good Father
Schroeder
Force 10 from Navarone
Captain Keene
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Company
Neurath
Outpost: Black Sun
Interrogator
Rogue Male
Henry Straker
Man and Superman
Reg Nuttall
Butley
Christiaan Barnard
Diana
The Artist
The Image
Sir Charles Harwood
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Duke of Alencon
Henry VI Part 1
John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 2
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 3
Duke of Buckingham
The Tragedy of Richard III
The Duke
Mortdecai
Ms or Jill and Jack
Octave
Mörderische Entscheidung
Roger
The Silent Playground
Andrew Norton
The Gold Machine
Friedrich Olbricht
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Claudio
Much Ado About Nothing
Headmaster
Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
Tomorrow Never Dies
Oliver Mather
30 Years to Life
Mr. Carruthers
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Smythe
Braveheart
Blank/German/Old Geezer
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Bryden Thomas
The Absence of War
Patrick
Imogen's Face
Monk (uncredited)
The Omen
Volmar
Hildegard
Venables
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Nairn
Sharpe: The Legend
Clarke
Break In
Anatoli Grushkov
The Sum of All Fears
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
A Bridge Too Far
Richard Lovell
If It's a Man... Hang Up!
Lieut General Strathairn
The Mark of Cain
Reinhard Beck
The Scarlet and the Black
Frank White
Quartet
Edward Seymour
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Archie Saunders
The Crooked Man
Emil Wetterstedt
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers
Richard Hussey
Champions
Lord Widgery
Sunday
Keller
Intrigo: Death of an Author
John Carberry
The Happy Valley
Richard
Πρόμαχος
Coroner
The Last Witness
Sam Campbell
The Fix
Chorus
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Lord Luthan
Proof of Life
Bruce
Wednesday Love
Michael
Alien Overlords
Gunnar Wedelman
Coming Out
Inquisitor
Nostradamus
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Conduct Unbecoming
Ben Kramer
Apt Pupil
Antonio
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Lange
Gunshy
Gellert Grindelwald
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Enemy
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Honour
Werner Von Ebrennac
The Silence of the Sea
Commissioner Keller
Intrigo: Samaria
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
83
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-07
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
Майкл Бирн