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