Michael Byrne
Acting • Born 1943-11-07
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.
Filmography
135 credits
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Movie • 1989
Vogel
Blood: The Last Vampire
Movie • 2009
Elder
The Saint
Movie • 1997
Vereshagin
Gangs of New York
Movie • 2002
Horace Greeley
Battlefield Earth
Movie • 2000
Parson Staffer
The Search for Alexander the Great
Movie • 1981
Demosthenes
The Scarlet Blade
Movie • 1963
Lt. Hawke
The Musketeer
Movie • 2001
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Beyond the Sea
Movie • 2004
Dr. Andretti
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie • 1976
Karl
Vampyres
Movie • 1974
Playboy
The Medusa Touch
Movie • 1978
Duff
Buster
Movie • 1988
Poyser
The Infiltrator
Movie • 1995
Dieter Creutz
Running Late
Movie • 1992
Clitheroe
The Island on Bird Street
Movie • 1997
Bolek
In the Secret State
Movie • 1985
Guy Preger
The Good Father
Movie • 1985
Leonard Scruby
Force 10 from Navarone
Movie • 1978
Schroeder
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Movie • 1998
Captain Keene
Sharpe's Company
Movie • 1994
Major Nairn
Outpost: Black Sun
Movie • 2012
Neurath
Rogue Male
Movie • 1976
Interrogator
Man and Superman
Movie • 1982
Henry Straker
Butley
Movie • 1974
Reg Nuttall
Diana
Movie • 2013
Christiaan Barnard
The Image
Movie • 1969
The Artist
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Movie • 2015
Sir Charles Harwood
Henry VI Part 1
Movie • 1983
Duke of Alencon
Henry VI Part 2
Movie • 1983
John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 3
Movie • 1983
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
The Tragedy of Richard III
Movie • 1983
Duke of Buckingham
Mortdecai
Movie • 2015
The Duke
Ms or Jill and Jack
Movie • 1974
Murderous Decisions
Movie • 1991
Octave
The Silent Playground
Movie • 1963
Roger
The Gold Machine
Movie • 2022
Andrew Norton
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie • 1990
Friedrich Olbricht
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1967
Claudio
Headmaster
Movie • 1974
Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie • 1997
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
30 Years to Life
Movie • 1998
Oliver Mather
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Movie • 1999
Mr. Carruthers
Braveheart
Movie • 1995
Smythe
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Movie • 1994
Blank/German/Old Geezer
Imogen's Face
Movie • 1998
Patrick
The Omen
Movie • 1976
Monk (uncredited)
Hildegard
Movie • 1994
Volmar
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Movie • 1997
Venables
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie • 1997
Nairn
Break In
Movie • 1975
Clarke
The Sum of All Fears
Movie • 2002
Anatoli Grushkov
A Bridge Too Far
Movie • 1977
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Movie • 1975
Richard Lovell
The Mark of Cain
Movie • 2007
Lieut General Strathairn
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie • 1983
Reinhard Beck
Quartet
Movie • 2012
Frank White
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Movie • 1972
Edward Seymour
The Crooked Man
Movie • 2003
Archie Saunders
The Return of the Dancing Master
Movie • 2004
Emil Wetterstedt
Champions
Movie • 1984
Richard Hussey
Sunday
Movie • 2002
Lord Widgery
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Movie • 2018
Keller
The Happy Valley
Movie • 1987
John Carberry
The First Line
Movie • 2014
Richard
The Last Witness
Movie • 2018
Coroner
The Fix
Movie • 1997
Sam Campbell
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Movie • 1986
Chorus
Proof of Life
Movie • 2000
Lord Luthan
Wednesday Love
Movie • 1975
Bruce
Alien Overlords
Movie • 2018
Michael
Coming Out
Movie • 1979
Gunnar Wedelman
Nostradamus
Movie • 1994
Inquisitor
Conduct Unbecoming
Movie • 1975
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Apt Pupil
Movie • 1998
Ben Kramer
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Movie • 1983
Antonio
Gunshy
Movie • 1998
Lange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie • 2010
Gellert Grindelwald
Sharpe's Enemy
Movie • 1994
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Honour
Movie • 1994
Major Nairn
The Silence of the Sea
Movie • 1980
Werner Von Ebrennac
Intrigo: Samaria
Movie • 2019
Commissioner Keller
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Movie • 1979
Ratrick Marney
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
Movie • 2015
Bjorn of the Dead
Movie
Derek
Thriller
TV • 1973
Richard Lovell
Hornblower
TV • 1998
Captain Keene
Sharpe
TV • 1993
Major Nairn
Ultimate Force
TV • 2002
Double the Fist
TV • 2004
The Bill
TV • 1984
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Patrick Marney
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Alex Ormrod
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
The Practice
TV • 1997
Officer (uncredited)
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Joe Brackley
The Enigma Files
TV • 1980
David Stanley
The Mists of Avalon
TV • 2001
Merlin
Empire
TV • 2005
Cicero
Yes, Prime Minister
TV • 1986
Play for Today
TV • 1970
A Sort of Innocence
TV • 1986
Smiley's People
TV • 1982
Peter Guillam
No Bananas
TV • 1996
Edward Grant
Oliver's Travels
TV • 1995
Moody
The Vice
TV • 1999
Heat of the Sun
TV • 1998
Oliver's Travels
TV • 1995
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
DCC Charles Griswold
Saracen
TV • 1989
Col. Patrick Ansell
Secret Army
TV • 1977
Paul Vercors
Crossing Lines
TV • 2013
Edward Baxendale
Ellis Island
TV • 1984
Dr. Carl Travers
Bodies
TV • 2023
Old Mullins
The Living and the Dead
TV • 2016
Ebenezer Alsop
Shades of Greene
TV • 1975
Trevor's Father
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
TV • 1986
George Abell
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Ted Page
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Russell
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Keith Grundy
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Bruce
Lady Killers
TV • 1980
Edward Marshall-Hall
Lady Killers
TV • 1980
Edward Marshall-Hall KC
Agatha Raisin
TV • 2016
Bishop Parsons
Hamish Macbeth
TV • 1995
Duncan Scott
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Werner Dreisinger
Strike
TV • 2017
Roy Phipps
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Viskovsky
The Chief
TV • 1990
Sir Robert Eaton
Accident
TV • 1978
Ian Shaw
The Devil's Crown
TV • 1978
Richard Lionheart
Edward the Seventh
TV • 1975
Fritz
Strangers
TV • 1978
Sgt Briscoe