Michael Byrne
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.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(Vogel)
Blood: The Last Vampire
(Elder)
The Saint
(Vereshagin)
Gangs of New York
(Horace Greeley)
Battlefield Earth
(Parson Staffer)
The Search for Alexander the Great
(Demosthenes)
The Scarlet Blade
(Lt. Hawke)
The Musketeer
(Treville, Head of the Musketeers)
Beyond the Sea
(Dr. Andretti)
The Eagle Has Landed
(Karl)
Vampyres
(Playboy)
The Medusa Touch
(Duff)
Buster
(Poyser)
The Infiltrator
(Dieter Creutz)
Running Late
(Clitheroe)
The Island on Bird Street
(Bolek)
In the Secret State
(Guy Preger)
The Good Father
(Leonard Scruby)
Force 10 from Navarone
(Schroeder)
Hornblower: The Even Chance
(Captain Keene)
Sharpe's Company
(Major Nairn)
Outpost: Black Sun
(Neurath)
Rogue Male
(Interrogator)
Man and Superman
(Henry Straker)
Butley
(Reg Nuttall)
Diana
(Christiaan Barnard)
The Image
(The Artist)
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
(Sir Charles Harwood)
Henry VI Part 1
(Duke of Alencon)
Henry VI Part 2
(John Hume / Lieutenant)
Henry VI Part 3
(Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son)
The Tragedy of Richard III
(Duke of Buckingham)
Mortdecai
(The Duke)
Ms or Jill and Jack
Murderous Decisions
(Octave)
The Silent Playground
(Roger)
The Gold Machine
(Andrew Norton)
The Plot to Kill Hitler
(Friedrich Olbricht)
Much Ado About Nothing
(Claudio)
Headmaster
Tomorrow Never Dies
(Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford)
30 Years to Life
(Oliver Mather)
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
(Mr. Carruthers)
Braveheart
(Smythe)
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
(Blank/German/Old Geezer)
The Absence of War
(Bryden Thomas)
Imogen's Face
(Patrick)
The Omen
(Monk (uncredited))
Hildegard
(Volmar)
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
(Venables)
Sharpe: The Legend
(Nairn)
Break In
(Clarke)
The Sum of All Fears
(Anatoli Grushkov)
A Bridge Too Far
(Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur)
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
(Richard Lovell)
The Mark of Cain
(Lieut General Strathairn)
The Scarlet and the Black
(Reinhard Beck)
Hornblower
Quartet
(Frank White)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
(Edward Seymour)
The Crooked Man
(Archie Saunders)
The Return of the Dancing Master
(Emil Wetterstedt)
Champions
(Richard Hussey)
Sunday
(Lord Widgery)
Intrigo: Death of an Author
(Keller)
The Happy Valley
(John Carberry)
The First Line
(Richard)
The Last Witness
(Coroner)
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
(Chorus)
The Fix
(Sam Campbell)
Proof of Life
(Lord Luthan)
Wednesday Love
(Bruce)
Alien Overlords
(Michael)
Coming Out
(Gunnar Wedelman)
Nostradamus
(Inquisitor)
Conduct Unbecoming
(2nd Lt. Toby Strang)
Apt Pupil
(Ben Kramer)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(Antonio)
Gunshy
(Lange)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
(Gellert Grindelwald)
Sharpe's Enemy
(Major Nairn)
Sharpe's Honour
(Major Nairn)
The Silence of the Sea
(Werner Von Ebrennac)
Thriller
(Richard Lovell)
Hornblower
(Captain Keene)
Sharpe
(Major Nairn)
Ultimate Force
Double the Fist
The Bill
Tales of the Unexpected
(Patrick Marney)
A Touch of Frost
(Alex Ormrod)
Silent Witness
Between the Lines
The Practice
(Officer (uncredited))
Crown Court
Waking the Dead
(Joe Brackley)
The Enigma Files
(David Stanley)
The Mists of Avalon
(Merlin)
Empire
(Cicero)
Yes, Prime Minister
Play for Today
A Sort of Innocence
Smiley's People
(Peter Guillam)
Within These Walls
No Bananas
(Edward Grant)
Oliver's Travels
(Moody)
The Vice
BBC Television Shakespeare
Heat of the Sun
Oliver's Travels
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
(DCC Charles Griswold)
Saracen
(Col. Patrick Ansell)
Secret Army
(Paul Vercors)
Crossing Lines
(Edward Baxendale)
Ellis Island
(Dr. Carl Travers)
Bodies
(Old Mullins)
The Living and the Dead
(Ebenezer Alsop)
Shades of Greene
(Trevor's Father)
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
(George Abell)
Coronation Street
(Ted Page)
Midsomer Murders
(Keith Grundy)
Play for Today
(Russell)
Play for Today
(Bruce)
Lady Killers
(Edward Marshall-Hall KC)
Lady Killers
(Edward Marshall-Hall)
Agatha Raisin
(Bishop Parsons)
Hamish Macbeth
(Duncan Scott)
The Professionals
(Werner Dreisinger)
