Michael Byrne
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1943-11-07 (80 years old)
Place of Birth London, England, UK
Also Known As Майкл Бирн
Michael Byrne
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.
Known For
Actor
as Old Mullins
as Andrew Norton
as Michael
as Keller
as Coroner
as Ebenezer Alsop
as Bishop Parsons
as Sir Charles Harwood
as The Duke
as Richard
as Christiaan Barnard
as Edward Baxendale
as Frank White
as Neurath
as Gellert Grindelwald
as Elder
as Lieut General Strathairn
as Cicero
as Dr. Andretti
as Emil Wetterstedt
as Archie Saunders
as Horace Greeley
as Anatoli Grushkov
as Lord Widgery
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
as Merlin
as Joe Brackley
as Lord Luthan
as Parson Staffer
as Mr. Carruthers
as Ben Kramer
as Oliver Mather
as Captain Keene
as Patrick
as Lange
as Captain Keene
as Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
as Nairn
as Venables
as Bolek
as Vereshagin
as Sam Campbell
as Keith Grundy
as Officer (uncredited)
as Edward Grant
as Dieter Creutz
as Smythe
as Bryden Thomas
as Moody
as Duncan Scott
as Inquisitor
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
as Major Nairn
as Major Nairn
as Major Nairn
as Volmar
as Major Nairn
as Clitheroe
as Alex Ormrod
as Octave
as Friedrich Olbricht
as Vogel
as Col. Patrick Ansell
as Poyser
as John Carberry
as DCC Charles Griswold
as Chorus
as George Abell
as Leonard Scruby
as Guy Preger
as Richard Hussey
as Dr. Carl Travers
as Antonio
as Reinhard Beck
as Duke of Buckingham
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
as John Hume / Lieutenant
as Duke of Alencon
as Henry Straker
as Peter Guillam
as Demosthenes
as Werner Von Ebrennac
as Edward Marshall-Hall
as Edward Marshall-Hall KC
as David Stanley
as Gunnar Wedelman
as Patrick Marney
as Schroeder
as Duff
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
as Werner Dreisinger
as Paul Vercors
as Karl
as Interrogator
as Monk (uncredited)
as Clarke
as Bruce
as Richard Lovell
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
as Trevor's Father
as Playboy
as Reg Nuttall
as Richard Lovell
as Edward Seymour
as Russell
as Bruce
as The Artist
as Claudio
as Roger
as Lt. Hawke
as Ted Page
Crew
as Stunt Double