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