Michael Byrne
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-07 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Michael Byrne
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.
Known For
Acting
(2022)
The Gold Machine
as Andrew Norton
(2019)
Intrigo: Samaria
as Commissioner Keller
(2018)
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Keller
(2018)
The Last Witness
as Coroner
(2018)
Alien Overlords
as Michael
(2015)
Mortdecai
as The Duke
(2015)
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles Harwood
(2014)
The First Line
as Richard
(2013)
Diana
as Christiaan Barnard
(2012)
Quartet
as Frank White
(2012)
Outpost: Black Sun
as Neurath
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Gellert Grindelwald
(2009)
Blood: The Last Vampire
as Elder
(2007)
The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General Strathairn
(2004)
Beyond the Sea
as Dr. Andretti
(2004)
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil Wetterstedt
(2003)
The Crooked Man
as Archie Saunders
(2002)
Gangs of New York
as Horace Greeley
(2002)
The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli Grushkov
(2002)
Sunday
as Lord Widgery
(2001)
The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
(2000)
Battlefield Earth
as Parson Staffer
(2000)
Proof of Life
as Lord Luthan
(1999)
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. Carruthers
(1998)
Apt Pupil
as Ben Kramer
(1998)
Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain Keene
(1998)
Gunshy
as Lange
(1998)
30 Years to Life
as Oliver Mather
(1998)
Imogen's Face
as Patrick
(1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
(1997)
The Island on Bird Street
as Bolek
(1997)
The Saint
as Vereshagin
(1997)
The Fix
as Sam Campbell
(1997)
Sharpe: The Legend
as Nairn
(1997)
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Venables
(1995)
Braveheart
as Smythe
(1995)
The Infiltrator
as Dieter Creutz
(1995)
The Absence of War
as Bryden Thomas
(1994)
Nostradamus
as Inquisitor
(1994)
Sharpe's Enemy
as Major Nairn
(1994)
Sharpe's Company
as Major Nairn
(1994)
Sharpe's Honour
as Major Nairn
(1994)
Hildegard
as Volmar
(1994)
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
(1992)
Running Late
as Clitheroe
(1991)
Murderous Decisions
as Octave
(1990)
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Friedrich Olbricht
(1989)
(1988)
Buster
as Poyser
(1987)
The Happy Valley
as John Carberry
(1986)
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
(1985)
The Good Father
as Leonard Scruby
(1985)
In the Secret State
as Guy Preger
(1984)
Champions
as Richard Hussey
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Reinhard Beck
(1983)
Henry VI Part 2
as John Hume / Lieutenant
(1983)
Henry VI Part 3
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
(1983)
The Tragedy of Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
(1983)
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of Alencon
(1983)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
as Antonio
(1982)
Man and Superman
as Henry Straker
(1981)
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Demosthenes
(1980)
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner Von Ebrennac
(1979)
Coming Out
as Gunnar Wedelman
(1978)
The Medusa Touch
as Duff
(1978)
Force 10 from Navarone
as Schroeder
(1977)
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
(1976)
The Omen
as Monk (uncredited)
(1976)
The Eagle Has Landed
as Karl
(1976)
Rogue Male
as Interrogator
(1975)
Conduct Unbecoming
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
(1975)
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
as Richard Lovell
(1975)
Wednesday Love
as Bruce
(1975)
Break In
as Clarke
(1974)
Vampyres
as Playboy
(1974)
Butley
as Reg Nuttall
(1974)
(1974)
(1972)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Edward Seymour
(1969)
The Image
as The Artist
(1967)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Claudio
(1963)
The Scarlet Blade
as Lt. Hawke
(1963)
The Silent Playground
as Roger
Crew
(2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Stunt Double