Michael Byrne
Actor
Born November 7, 1943 in London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Bodies
Old Mullins
The Gold Machine
Andrew Norton
Intrigo: Samaria
Commissioner Keller
Alien Overlords
Michael
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Keller
The Last Witness
Coroner
Strike
Roy Phipps
The Living and the Dead
Ebenezer Alsop
Agatha Raisin
Bishop Parsons
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Sir Charles Harwood
Cuffs
Leslie Kane
Mortdecai
The Duke
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
The First Line
Richard
Diana
Christiaan Barnard
Crossing Lines
Edward Baxendale
Quartet
Frank White
Outpost: Black Sun
Neurath
The Body Farm
Harold Penton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Gellert Grindelwald
Blood: The Last Vampire
Elder
The Mark of Cain
Lieut General Strathairn
Empire
Cicero
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Beyond the Sea
Dr. Andretti
The Return of the Dancing Master
Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
Archie Saunders
Gangs of New York
Horace Greeley
Ultimate Force
The Sum of All Fears
Anatoli Grushkov
Sunday
Lord Widgery
The Musketeer
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Mists of Avalon
Merlin
Waking the Dead
Joe Brackley
Proof of Life
Lord Luthan
Battlefield Earth
Parson Staffer
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Mr. Carruthers
The Vice
Solicitor
Apt Pupil
Ben Kramer
30 Years to Life
Oliver Mather
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Captain Keene
Hornblower
Captain Keene
Imogen's Face
Patrick
Gunshy
Lange
Heat of the Sun
Tomorrow Never Dies
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Sharpe: The Legend
Nairn
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Venables
The Island on Bird Street
Bolek
The Saint
Vereshagin
Midsomer Murders
Keith Grundy
The Practice
Officer (uncredited)
The Fix
Sam Campbell
No Bananas
Edward Grant
Silent Witness
The Infiltrator
Dieter Creutz
Oliver's Travels
Moody
Braveheart
Smythe
Hamish Macbeth
Duncan Scott
Nostradamus
Inquisitor
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Blank/German/Old Geezer
Sharpe's Honour
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Enemy
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Company
Major Nairn
Hildegard
Volmar
Sharpe
Major Nairn
A Touch of Frost
Alex Ormrod
Running Late
Clitheroe
Between the Lines
The Chief
Sir Robert Eaton
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Friedrich Olbricht
Screen One
Clitheroe
Saracen
Col. Patrick Ansell
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Vogel
Buster
Poyser
The Happy Valley
John Carberry
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
DCC Charles Griswold
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
George Abell
Yes, Prime Minister
The Good Father
Leonard Scruby
In the Secret State
Guy Preger
Screen Two
Guy Preger
Ellis Island
Dr. Carl Travers
The Bill
Champions
Richard Hussey
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Antonio
The Scarlet and the Black
Reinhard Beck
The Tragedy of Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI Part 3
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 2
John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 1
Duke of Alencon
Smiley's People
Peter Guillam
The Search for Alexander the Great
Demosthenes
The Search for Alexander the Great
Demosthenes
The Silence of the Sea
Werner Von Ebrennac
Lady Killers
Edward Marshall-Hall
The Enigma Files
David Stanley
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Ratrick Marney
Coming Out
Gunnar Wedelman
Tales of the Unexpected
Patrick Marney
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Antonio
Force 10 from Navarone
Schroeder
Strangers
Sgt Briscoe
The Devil's Crown
Richard Lionheart
The Medusa Touch
Duff
The Professionals
Werner Dreisinger
Secret Army
Paul Vercors
A Bridge Too Far
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Eagle Has Landed
Karl
Rogue Male
Interrogator
The Omen
Monk (uncredited)
Break In
Clarke
Conduct Unbecoming
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Wednesday Love
Bruce
Edward the Seventh
Fritz
Vampyres
Playboy
Headmaster
Butley
Reg Nuttall
Thriller
Richard Lovell
Crown Court
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Edward Seymour
New Scotland Yard
DS Patten
Play for Today
The Image
The Artist
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Jason
Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio
BBC Play of the Month
Viskovsky
The Silent Playground
Roger
The Scarlet Blade
Lt. Hawke
Coronation Street
Ted Page