Michael Byrne
Age: 80 | From: London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1943-11-07 20:56:08
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 66
TV Involvements: 23
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Midsomer Murders
(1997) Keith Grundy
The Practice
(1997) Officer (uncredited)
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Patrick Marney
The Professionals
(1977) Werner Dreisinger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
(2010) Gellert Grindelwald
Waking the Dead
(2000) Joe Brackley
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
(1987) DCC Charles Griswold
Thriller
(1973) Richard LovellActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Andrew Norton | |
| 2018 | Michael | |
| Keller | ||
| Coroner | ||
| 2016 | Ebenezer Alsop | |
| Bishop Parsons | ||
| 2015 | Sir Charles Harwood | |
| The Duke | ||
| 2014 | Richard | |
| 2013 | Christiaan Barnard | |
| Edward Baxendale | ||
| 2012 | Frank White | |
| Neurath | ||
| 2010 | Gellert Grindelwald | |
| 2009 | Elder | |
| 2007 | Lieut General Strathairn | |
| 2005 | Cicero | |
| 2004 | Dr. Andretti | |
| N/A | ||
| Emil Wetterstedt | ||
| 2003 | Archie Saunders | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2002 | Horace Greeley | |
| N/A | ||
| Anatoli Grushkov | ||
| Lord Widgery | ||
| 2001 | Treville, Head of the Musketeers | |
| Merlin | ||
| 2000 | Lord Luthan | |
| Joe Brackley | ||
| Parson Staffer | ||
| 1999 | Mr. Carruthers | |
| N/A | ||
| 1998 | Ben Kramer | |
| Oliver Mather | ||
| Captain Keene | ||
| Captain Keene | ||
| Lange | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1997 | Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford | |
| Venables | ||
| Bolek | ||
| Vereshagin | ||
| Keith Grundy | ||
| Officer (uncredited) | ||
| Sam Campbell | ||
| 1996 | Edward Grant | |
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | Dieter Creutz | |
| Moody | ||
| N/A | ||
| Smythe | ||
| N/A | ||
| Duncan Scott | ||
| 1994 | Inquisitor | |
| N/A | ||
| Major Nairn | ||
| Major Nairn | ||
| Major Nairn | ||
| 1993 | Major Nairn | |
| 1992 | N/A | |
| Clitheroe | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Octave | |
| 1990 | Friedrich Olbricht | |
| 1989 | Col. Patrick Ansell | |
| Vogel | ||
| 1988 | Poyser | |
| 1987 | John Carberry | |
| DCC Charles Griswold | ||
| 1986 | N/A | |
| Chorus | ||
| George Abell | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1985 | Leonard Scruby | |
| Guy Preger | ||
| 1984 | Dr. Carl Travers | |
| N/A | ||
| Richard Hussey | ||
| 1983 | Antonio | |
| Reinhard Beck | ||
| Duke of Buckingham | ||
| Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son | ||
| John Hume / Lieutenant | ||
| Duke of Alencon | ||
| 1982 | Henry Straker | |
| Peter Guillam | ||
| 1981 | Demosthenes | |
| 1980 | Edward Marshall-Hall KC | |
| Edward Marshall-Hall | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1979 | Gunnar Wedelman | |
| Patrick Marney | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Schroeder | ||
| Duff | ||
| 1977 | Werner Dreisinger | |
| Paul Vercors | ||
| Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur | ||
| 1976 | Karl | |
| Interrogator | ||
| Monk (uncredited) | ||
| 1975 | Trevor's Father | |
| Bruce | ||
| Richard Lovell | ||
| 2nd Lt. Toby Strang | ||
| 1974 | Playboy | |
| N/A | ||
| Reg Nuttall | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1973 | Richard Lovell | |
| 1972 | N/A | |
| Edward Seymour | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | The Artist | |
| 1967 | Claudio | |
| 1963 | Roger | |
| Lt. Hawke | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
