Michael Byrne
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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.
Known for
Credits
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
as Gellert Grindelwald
Braveheart (1995)
as Smythe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
as Vogel
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
as Anatoli Grushkov
Gangs of New York (2002)
as Horace Greeley
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
The Omen (1976)
as Monk (uncredited)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Saint (1997)
as Vereshagin
Mortdecai (2015)
as The Duke
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Karl
Battlefield Earth (2000)
as Parson Staffer
The Musketeer (2001)
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Proof of Life (2000)
as Lord Luthan
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
as Elder
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
as Schroeder
Apt Pupil (1998)
as Ben Kramer
Intrigo: Samaria (2019)
as Commissioner Keller
Beyond the Sea (2004)
as Dr. Andretti
Quartet (2012)
as Frank White
The Medusa Touch (1978)
as Duff
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Reinhard Beck
Diana (2013)
as Christiaan Barnard
Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
as Keller
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Edward Seymour
Vampyres (1974)
as Playboy
The Infiltrator (1995)
as Dieter Creutz
The Last Witness (2018)
as Coroner
The Mark of Cain (2007)
as Lieut General Strathairn
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
as Bolek
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
as Captain Keene
Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
as Neurath
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
as Emil Wetterstedt
Henry VI Part 2 (1983)
as John Hume / Lieutenant
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
as Major Nairn
30 Years to Life (1998)
as Oliver Mather
Wednesday Love (1975)
as Bruce
Sharpe's Company (1994)
as Major Nairn
Champions (1984)
as Richard Hussey
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1997)
as Venables
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
as Friedrich Olbricht
The First Line (2014)
as Richard
The Good Father (1985)
as Leonard Scruby
Gunshy (1998)
as Lange
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Nairn
The Image (1969)
as The Artist
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
as Chorus
The Tragedy of Richard III (1983)
as Duke of Buckingham
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter (2015)
as Sir Charles Harwood
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
as Claudio
Alien Overlords (2018)
as Michael
Henry VI Part 3 (1983)
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 1 (1983)
as Duke of Alencon
Rogue Male (1976)
as Interrogator
Sharpe's Honour (1994)
as Major Nairn
Buster (1988)
as Poyser
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
as Lt. Hawke
The Holocaust on Trial (2000)
as Richard Rampton QC
In the Secret State (1985)
as Guy Preger
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)
as Mr. Carruthers
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (1994)
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
Nostradamus (1994)
as Inquisitor
Hildegard (1994)
as Volmar
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983)
as Antonio
The Happy Valley (1987)
as John Carberry
The Fix (1997)
as Sam Campbell
Sunday (2002)
as Lord Widgery
Bjorn of the Dead (—)
as Derek
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (1979)
as Ratrick Marney
Ms or Jill and Jack (1974)
Actor
Running Late (1992)
as Clitheroe
Break In (1975)
as Clarke
Butley (1974)
as Reg Nuttall
If It's a Man – Hang Up! (1975)
as Richard Lovell
Man and Superman (1982)
as Henry Straker
Murderous Decisions (1991)
as Octave
The Gold Machine (2022)
as Andrew Norton
Imogen's Face (1998)
as Patrick
The Silent Playground (1963)
as Roger
Coming Out (1979)
as Gunnar Wedelman
The Crooked Man (2003)
as Archie Saunders
The Silence of the Sea (1980)
as Werner Von Ebrennac
Headmaster (1974)
Actor