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.
137 acting credits
Acting · 137
Midsomer Murders
1997
Coronation Street
1960
Play for Today
1970
The Practice
1997
Silent Witness
1996
Crown Court
1972
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
A Touch of Frost
1992
Waking the Dead
2001
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Professionals
1977
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Bill
1984
Screen Two
1985
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Crossing Lines
2013
Strike
2017
Thriller
1973
Braveheart
1995
Secret Army
1977
Between the Lines
1992
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Bodies
2023
Screen One
1989
Agatha Raisin
2016
Sharpe
1993
The Chief
1990
Hornblower
1998
Gangs of New York
2002
Hamish Macbeth
1995
Strangers
1978
The Vice
1999
Ultimate Force
2002
The Sum of All Fears
2002
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
The Omen
1976
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Lady Killers
1980
Empire
2005
Smiley's People
1982
Mortdecai
2015
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
Battlefield Earth
2000
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Cuffs
2015
The Mists of Avalon
2001
New Scotland Yard
1972
The Enigma Files
1980
The Saint
1997
The Living and the Dead
2016
The Body Farm
2011
Edward the Seventh
1975
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
Ellis Island
1984
Proof of Life
2000
Apt Pupil
1998
The Medusa Touch
1978
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009
Saracen
1989
Oliver's Travels
1995
The Musketeer
2001
Heat of the Sun
1998
Diana
2013
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
1986
No Bananas
1996
Vampyres
1974
Quartet
2012
The Island on Bird Street
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
Double the Fist
2004
Accident
1978
Champions
1984
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
Beyond the Sea
2004
Buster
1988
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
The Last Witness
2018
The Mark of Cain
2007
The Devil's Crown
1978
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
Outpost: Black Sun
2012
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
The Good Father
1985
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
The Infiltrator
1995
Nostradamus
1994
Sharpe's Honour
1994
In the Secret State
1985
The Crooked Man
2003
Rogue Male
1976
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
Intrigo: Samaria
2019
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
Sunday
2002
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
2015
Gunshy
1998
Shades of Greene
1975
The Scarlet Blade
1963
A Sort of Innocence
1986
The Happy Valley
1987
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Running Late
1992
The Fix
1997
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Henry VI Part 1
1983
Henry VI Part 3
1983
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1983
Henry VI Part 2
1983
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994
Butley
1974
Alien Overlords
2018
30 Years to Life
1998
Sharpe's Company
1994
Hildegard
1994
Headmaster
1974
Bjorn of the Dead
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The Gold Machine
2022
Wednesday Love
1975
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999
Murderous Decisions
1991
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979
The First Line
2014
The Image
1969
Imogen's Face
1998
The Silent Playground
1963
Coming Out
1979
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
1975
Break In
1975
Man and Superman
1982
The Silence of the Sea
1980
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974