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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Gold Machine
Character:Andrew Norton
Release Date:02/09/2022
Intrigo: Samaria
Character:Commissioner Keller
Release Date:10/10/2019
Alien Overlords
Character:Michael
Release Date:14/11/2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Character:Keller
Release Date:11/10/2018
The Last Witness
Character:Coroner
Release Date:11/05/2018
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Character:Sir Charles Harwood
Release Date:27/12/2015
Mortdecai
Character:The Duke
Release Date:21/01/2015
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
Character:
Release Date:15/01/2015
The First Line
Character:Richard
Release Date:27/11/2014
Diana
Character:Christiaan Barnard
Release Date:19/09/2013
Quartet
Character:Frank White
Release Date:26/12/2012
Outpost: Black Sun
Character:Neurath
Release Date:25/04/2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character:Gellert Grindelwald
Release Date:17/11/2010
Blood: The Last Vampire
Character:Elder
Release Date:02/04/2009
The Mark of Cain
Character:Lieut General Strathairn
Release Date:18/10/2007
Beyond the Sea
Character:Dr. Andretti
Release Date:16/11/2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
Character:Emil Wetterstedt
Release Date:08/04/2004
The Crooked Man
Character:Archie Saunders
Release Date:17/12/2003
Gangs of New York
Character:Horace Greeley
Release Date:14/12/2002
The Sum of All Fears
Character:Anatoli Grushkov
Release Date:31/05/2002
Sunday
Character:Lord Widgery
Release Date:28/01/2002
The Musketeer
Character:Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Release Date:07/09/2001
Proof of Life
Character:Lord Luthan
Release Date:08/12/2000
Battlefield Earth
Character:Parson Staffer
Release Date:12/05/2000
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Character:Mr. Carruthers
Release Date:15/10/1999
Apt Pupil
Character:Ben Kramer
Release Date:23/10/1998
30 Years to Life
Character:Oliver Mather
Release Date:15/10/1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Character:Captain Keene
Release Date:07/10/1998
Imogen's Face
Character:Patrick
Release Date:02/07/1998
Gunshy
Character:Lange
Release Date:06/03/1998
Tomorrow Never Dies
Character:HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Release Date:11/12/1997
Sharpe: The Legend
Character:Nairn
Release Date:13/10/1997
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Character:Venables
Release Date:01/07/1997
The Island on Bird Street
Character:Bolek
Release Date:11/04/1997
The Saint
Character:Vereshagin
Release Date:03/04/1997
The Fix
Character:Sam Campbell
Release Date:04/01/1997
The Infiltrator
Character:Dieter Creutz
Release Date:24/06/1995
Braveheart
Character:Smythe
Release Date:24/05/1995
Nostradamus
Character:Inquisitor
Release Date:18/08/1994
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Character:Blank/German/Old Geezer
Release Date:10/08/1994
Sharpe's Honour
Character:Major Nairn
Release Date:08/06/1994
Sharpe's Enemy
Character:Major Nairn
Release Date:01/06/1994
Sharpe's Company
Character:Major Nairn
Release Date:25/05/1994
Hildegard
Character:Volmar
Release Date:03/01/1994
Running Late
Character:Clitheroe
Release Date:11/10/1992
Murderous Decisions
Character:Octave
Release Date:15/12/1991
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character:Friedrich Olbricht
Release Date:30/01/1990
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Character:Vogel
Release Date:24/05/1989
Buster
Character:Poyser
Release Date:16/09/1988
The Happy Valley
Character:John Carberry
Release Date:06/09/1987
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character:Chorus
Release Date:16/09/1986
The Good Father
Character:Leonard Scruby
Release Date:01/11/1985
In the Secret State
Character:Guy Preger
Release Date:10/03/1985
Champions
Character:Richard Hussey
Release Date:20/04/1984
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Character:Antonio
Release Date:27/12/1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Character:Reinhard Beck
Release Date:02/02/1983
The Tragedy of Richard III
Character:Duke of Buckingham
Release Date:23/01/1983
Henry VI Part 3
Character:Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Release Date:16/01/1983
Henry VI Part 2
Character:John Hume / Lieutenant
Release Date:09/01/1983
Henry VI Part 1
Character:Duke of Alencon
Release Date:02/01/1983
Man and Superman
Character:Henry Straker
Release Date:31/12/1982
The Search for Alexander the Great
Character:Demosthenes
Release Date:06/05/1981
The Silence of the Sea
Character:Werner Von Ebrennac
Release Date:24/11/1980
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Character:Ratrick Marney
Release Date:14/04/1979
Coming Out
Character:Gunnar Wedelman
Release Date:10/04/1979
Force 10 from Navarone
Character:Schroeder
Release Date:16/08/1978
The Medusa Touch
Character:Duff
Release Date:13/04/1978
A Bridge Too Far
Character:Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
Release Date:15/06/1977
The Eagle Has Landed
Character:Karl
Release Date:24/12/1976
Rogue Male
Character:Interrogator
Release Date:22/09/1976
The Omen
Character:Monk (uncredited)
Release Date:25/06/1976
Break In
Character:Clarke
Release Date:06/11/1975
Conduct Unbecoming
Character:2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Release Date:04/10/1975
Wednesday Love
Character:Bruce
Release Date:08/05/1975
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Character:Richard Lovell
Release Date:11/04/1975
Vampyres
Character:Playboy
Release Date:06/07/1974
Headmaster
Character:
Release Date:14/03/1974
Butley
Character:Reg Nuttall
Release Date:21/01/1974
Ms or Jill and Jack
Character:
Release Date:02/01/1974
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Character:Edward Seymour
Release Date:13/07/1972
The Image
Character:The Artist
Release Date:28/01/1969
Much Ado About Nothing
Character:Claudio
Release Date:05/02/1967
The Silent Playground
Character:Roger
Release Date:31/12/1963
The Scarlet Blade
Character:Lt. Hawke
Release Date:01/09/1963
Television Appearances
Bodies
Character:Old Mullins
Strike
Character:Roy Phipps
The Living and the Dead
Character:Ebenezer Alsop
Agatha Raisin
Character:Bishop Parsons
Crossing Lines
Character:Edward Baxendale
Empire
Character:Cicero
Double the Fist
Character:
Ultimate Force
Character:
The Mists of Avalon
Character:Merlin
Waking the Dead
Character:Joe Brackley
The Vice
Character:
Hornblower
Character:Captain Keene
Heat of the Sun
Character:
Midsomer Murders
Character:Keith Grundy
The Practice
Character:Officer (uncredited)
No Bananas
Character:Edward Grant
Silent Witness
Character:
Oliver's Travels
Character:Moody
Oliver's Travels
Character:
Hamish Macbeth
Character:Duncan Scott
Sharpe
Character:Major Nairn
A Touch of Frost
Character:Alex Ormrod
Between the Lines
Character:
The Chief
Character:Sir Robert Eaton
Saracen
Character:Col. Patrick Ansell
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character:DCC Charles Griswold
A Sort of Innocence
Character:
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Character:George Abell
Yes, Prime Minister
Character:
Ellis Island
Character:Dr. Carl Travers
The Bill
Character:
Smiley's People
Character:Peter Guillam
Lady Killers
Character:Edward Marshall-Hall
Lady Killers
Character:Edward Marshall-Hall KC
The Enigma Files
Character:David Stanley
Tales of the Unexpected
Character:Patrick Marney
Accident
Character:Ian Shaw
The Devil's Crown
Character:Richard Lionheart
The Professionals
Character:Werner Dreisinger
Secret Army
Character:Paul Vercors
Shades of Greene
Character:Trevor's Father
Edward the Seventh
Character:Fritz
Thriller
Character:Richard Lovell
Crown Court
Character:
Play for Today
Character:
Play for Today
Character:Russell
Play for Today
Character:Bruce
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Viskovsky
Coronation Street
Character:Ted Page
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