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.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1943-11-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	The Scarlet Blade	Lt. Hawke	54
2	1963	The Silent Playground	Roger	47
3	1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Claudio	55
4	1969	The Image	The Artist	47
5	1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Edward Seymour	58
6	1974	Ms or Jill and Jack		0
7	1974	Butley	Reg Nuttall	63
8	1974	Headmaster		0
9	1974	Vampyres	Playboy	59
10	1975	If It's a Man – Hang Up!	Richard Lovell	80
11	1975	Wednesday Love	Bruce	0
12	1975	Conduct Unbecoming	2nd Lt. Toby Strang	59
13	1975	Break In	Clarke	0
14	1976	The Omen	Monk (uncredited)	74
15	1976	Rogue Male	Interrogator	65
16	1976	The Eagle Has Landed	Karl	66
17	1977	A Bridge Too Far	Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur	72
18	1978	The Medusa Touch	Duff	68
19	1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Schroeder	62
20	1979	Coming Out	Gunnar Wedelman	57
21	1980	The Silence of the Sea	Werner Von Ebrennac	0
22	1981	The Search for Alexander the Great	Demosthenes	0
23	1982	Man and Superman	Henry Straker	0
24	1983	Henry VI Part 1	Duke of Alencon	75
25	1983	Henry VI Part 2	John Hume / Lieutenant	70
26	1983	Henry VI Part 3	Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son	70
27	1983	The Tragedy of Richard III	Duke of Buckingham	60
28	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Reinhard Beck	70
29	1983	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Antonio	63
30	1984	Champions	Richard Hussey	68
31	1985	In the Secret State	Guy Preger	0
32	1985	The Good Father	Leonard Scruby	57
33	1986	Theban Plays: Oedipus the King	Chorus	20
34	1987	The Happy Valley	John Carberry	68
35	1988	Buster	Poyser	56
36	1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Vogel	79
37	1990	The Plot to Kill Hitler	Friedrich Olbricht	60
38	1991	Murderous Decisions	Octave	0
39	1992	Running Late	Clitheroe	0
40	1994	Hildegard	Volmar	0
41	1994	Sharpe's Company	Major Nairn	67
42	1994	Sharpe's Enemy	Major Nairn	69
43	1994	Sharpe's Honour	Major Nairn	66
44	1994	A Few Short Journeys of the Heart	Blank/German/Old Geezer	20
45	1994	Nostradamus	Inquisitor	57
46	1995	The Absence of War	Bryden Thomas	0
47	1995	Braveheart	Smythe	79
48	1995	The Infiltrator	Dieter Creutz	59
49	1997	The Fix	Sam Campbell	33
50	1997	The Saint	Vereshagin	61
51	1997	The Island on Bird Street	Bolek	72
52	1997	Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse	Venables	56
53	1997	Sharpe: The Legend	Nairn	60
54	1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly	64
55	1998	Gunshy	Lange	54
56	1998	Imogen's Face	Patrick	0
57	1998	Hornblower: The Even Chance	Captain Keene	74
58	1998	30 Years to Life	Oliver Mather	50
59	1998	Apt Pupil	Ben Kramer	65
60	1999	Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei	Mr. Carruthers	76
61	2000	Battlefield Earth	Parson Staffer	33
62	2000	Proof of Life	Lord Luthan	61
63	2001	The Musketeer	Treville, Head of the Musketeers	53
64	2002	Sunday	Lord Widgery	74
65	2002	The Sum of All Fears	Anatoli Grushkov	64
66	2002	Gangs of New York	Horace Greeley	73
67	2003	The Crooked Man	Archie Saunders	0
68	2004	The Return of the Dancing Master	Emil Wetterstedt	49
69	2004	Beyond the Sea	Dr. Andretti	62
70	2007	The Mark of Cain	Lieut General Strathairn	54
71	2009	Blood: The Last Vampire	Elder	58
72	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Gellert Grindelwald	77
73	2012	Outpost: Black Sun	Neurath	50
74	2012	Quartet	Frank White	65
75	2013	Diana	Christiaan Barnard	56
76	2014	The First Line	Richard	60
77	2015	Mortdecai	The Duke	55
78	2015	Harry Price: Ghost Hunter	Sir Charles Harwood	61
79	2018	The Last Witness	Coroner	60
80	2018	Intrigo: Death of an Author	Keller	53
81	2018	Alien Overlords	Michael	40
82	2019	Intrigo: Samaria	Commissioner Keller	55
83	2022	The Gold Machine	Andrew Norton	50

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Coronation Street	Ted Page	54
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Viskovsky	50
3	1970	Play for Today		63
4	1970	Play for Today	Russell	63
5	1970	Play for Today	Bruce	63
6	1972	Crown Court		54
7	1973	Thriller	Richard Lovell	66
8	1974	Within These Walls		53
9	1975	Shades of Greene	Trevor's Father	100
10	1977	Secret Army	Paul Vercors	75
11	1977	The Professionals	Werner Dreisinger	74
12	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Duke of Buckingham	60
13	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Antonio	60
14	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Duke of Alençon	60
15	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	John Hume/Ship's Lieutenant	60
16	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Marquess of Montague/Father who killed his son	60
17	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Patrick Marney	67
18	1980	The Enigma Files	David Stanley	55
19	1980	Lady Killers	Edward Marshall-Hall KC	50
20	1980	Lady Killers	Edward Marshall-Hall	50
21	1982	Smiley's People	Peter Guillam	77
22	1984	The Bill		67
23	1984	Ellis Island	Dr. Carl Travers	50
24	1986	Yes, Prime Minister		84
25	1986	Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy	George Abell	50
26	1986	A Sort of Innocence		0
27	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	DCC Charles Griswold	62
28	1989	Saracen	Col. Patrick Ansell	50
29	1992	Between the Lines		56
30	1992	A Touch of Frost	Alex Ormrod	75
31	1993	Sharpe	Major Nairn	79
32	1995	Hamish Macbeth	Duncan Scott	76
33	1995	Oliver's Travels	Moody	60
34	1995	Oliver's Travels		60
35	1996	Silent Witness		76
36	1996	No Bananas	Edward Grant	50
37	1997	The Practice	Officer (uncredited)	77
38	1997	Midsomer Murders	Keith Grundy	75
39	1998	Heat of the Sun		60
40	1998	Hornblower	Captain Keene	78
41	1999	The Vice		60
42	2001	Waking the Dead	Joe Brackley	72
43	2001	The Mists of Avalon	Merlin	68
44	2002	Ultimate Force		66
45	2004	Double the Fist		70
46	2005	Empire	Cicero	64
47	2013	Crossing Lines	Edward Baxendale	67
48	2016	Agatha Raisin	Bishop Parsons	61
49	2016	The Living and the Dead	Ebenezer Alsop	67
50	2017	Strike	Roy Phipps	71
51	2023	Bodies	Old Mullins	72

Michael Byrne

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