Michael Byrne
Acting
🎂 1943-11-07
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.
Cast credits(132)
Keith Grundy
1997
1996
1970
Russell
1970
Bruce
1970
Officer (uncredited)
1997
Gellert Grindelwald
2010
Ted Page
1960
Patrick Marney
1979
1972
Viskovsky
1965
1984
Joe Brackley
2001
Werner Dreisinger
1977
Smythe
1995
Vogel
1989
Alex Ormrod
1992
Roy Phipps
2017
Edward Baxendale
2013
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
1997
DCC Charles Griswold
1987
Horace Greeley
2002
1992
Major Nairn
1993
Richard Lovell
1973
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
1977
Old Mullins
2023
Captain Keene
1998
Bishop Parsons
2016
Anatoli Grushkov
2002
Monk (uncredited)
1976
Paul Vercors
1977
The Duke
2015
Dieter Creutz
1995
Ben Kramer
1998
2002
Sir Robert Eaton
1990
Cicero
2005
Lange
1998
1999
Lord Luthan
2000
Karl
1976
Vereshagin
1997
Duncan Scott
1995
Sir Charles Harwood
2015
Nairn
1997
Parson Staffer
2000
Edward Marshall-Hall KC
1980
Edward Marshall-Hall
1980
Merlin
2001
Elder
2009
Roger
1963
1986
Frank White
2012
Schroeder
1978
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
2001
Peter Guillam
1982
Friedrich Olbricht
1990
Richard
2014
Coroner
2018
Christiaan Barnard
2013
Duke of Alencon
1983
Bolek
1997
David Stanley
1980
1974
Poyser
1988
Bryden Thomas
1995
Duff
1978
Reinhard Beck
1983
John Hume / Lieutenant
1983
Edward Seymour
1972
Inquisitor
1994
Major Nairn
1994
Emil Wetterstedt
2004
Dr. Andretti
2004
Henry Straker
1982
Sam Campbell
1997
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
1975
Gunnar Wedelman
1979
2004
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
1983
Duke of Buckingham
1983
Leonard Scruby
1985
Neurath
2012
Major Nairn
1994
Ebenezer Alsop
2016
Archie Saunders
2003
Mr. Carruthers
1999
Captain Keene
1998
Blank/German/Old Geezer
1994
Major Nairn
1994
Clitheroe
1992
Lieut General Strathairn
2007
Lord Widgery
2002
Octave
1991
Commissioner Keller
2019
John Carberry
1987
Moody
1995
1995
Richard Hussey
1984
Claudio
1967
Keller
2018
Reg Nuttall
1974
Interrogator
1976
Bruce
1975
Lt. Hawke
1963
Dr. Carl Travers
1984
1998
Edward Grant
1996
George Abell
1986
Col. Patrick Ansell
1989
Oliver Mather
1998
Ian Shaw
1978
Venables
1997
1974
1986
Trevor's Father
1975
Playboy
1974
Guy Preger
1985
Antonio
1983
The Artist
1969
Andrew Norton
2022
Richard Lovell
1975
Ratrick Marney
1979
Michael
2018
Chorus
1986
Werner Von Ebrennac
1980
Patrick
1998
1974
Demosthenes
1981
Volmar
1994
Clarke
1975
