Michael Byrne

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-11-07 (81 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

2023
Bodies

as Old Mullins

2022
The Gold Machine

as Andrew Norton

2019
Intrigo: Samaria

as Commissioner Keller

2018
Alien Overlords

as Michael

2018
The Last Witness

as Coroner

2017
Strike

as Roy Phipps

2016
The Living and the Dead

as Ebenezer Alsop

2016
Agatha Raisin

as Bishop Parsons

2015
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter

as Sir Charles Harwood

2015
Mortdecai

as The Duke

2014
The First Line

as Richard

2013
Diana

as Christiaan Barnard

2013
Crossing Lines

as Edward Baxendale

2012
Quartet

as Frank White

2012
2007
The Mark of Cain

as Lieut General Strathairn

2005
Empire

as Cicero

2004
Beyond the Sea

as Dr. Andretti

2004
2003
The Crooked Man

as Archie Saunders

2002
Gangs of New York

as Horace Greeley

2002
The Sum of All Fears

as Anatoli Grushkov

2002
Sunday

as Lord Widgery

2001
The Musketeer

as Treville, Head of the Musketeers

2001
2001
Waking the Dead

as Joe Brackley

2000
Proof of Life

as Lord Luthan

2000
Battlefield Earth

as Parson Staffer

1999
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

as Mr. Carruthers

1998
Apt Pupil

as Ben Kramer

1998
30 Years to Life

as Oliver Mather

1998
1998
Imogen's Face

as Patrick

1998
Gunshy

as Lange

1998
Hornblower

as Captain Keene

1997
Tomorrow Never Dies

as Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford

1997
1997
The Saint

as Vereshagin

1997
The Fix

as Sam Campbell

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Keith Grundy

1997
The Practice

as Officer (uncredited)

1996
No Bananas

as Edward Grant

1995
The Infiltrator

as Dieter Creutz

1995
Braveheart

as Smythe

1995
The Absence of War

as Bryden Thomas

1995
1995
Hamish Macbeth

as Duncan Scott

1994
Nostradamus

as Inquisitor

1994
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart

as Blank/German/Old Geezer

1994
Sharpe's Honour

as Major Nairn

1994
Sharpe's Enemy

as Major Nairn

1994
Sharpe's Company

as Major Nairn

1994
Hildegard

as Volmar

1993
Sharpe

as Major Nairn

1992
Running Late

as Clitheroe

1992
A Touch of Frost

as Alex Ormrod

1991
1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Friedrich Olbricht

1989
Saracen

as Col. Patrick Ansell

1988
Buster

as Poyser

1987
The Happy Valley

as John Carberry

1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as DCC Charles Griswold

1985
The Good Father

as Leonard Scruby

1985
In the Secret State

as Guy Preger

1984
Champions

as Richard Hussey

1984
Ellis Island

as Dr. Carl Travers

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as Reinhard Beck

1983
The Tragedy of Richard III

as Duke of Buckingham

1983
Henry VI Part 3

as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son

1983
Henry VI Part 2

as John Hume / Lieutenant

1983
Henry VI Part 1

as Duke of Alencon

1982
Man and Superman

as Henry Straker

1982
Smiley's People

as Peter Guillam

1980
The Silence of the Sea

as Werner Von Ebrennac

1980
Lady Killers

as Edward Marshall-Hall KC

1980
Lady Killers

as Edward Marshall-Hall

1980
The Enigma Files

as David Stanley

1979
Coming Out

as Gunnar Wedelman

1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Patrick Marney

1978
1978
1977
A Bridge Too Far

as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur

1977
The Professionals

as Werner Dreisinger

1977
Secret Army

as Paul Vercors

1976
Rogue Male

as Interrogator

1976
The Omen

as Monk (uncredited)

1975
Break In

as Clarke

1975
1975
If It's a Man – Hang Up!

as Richard Lovell

1975
Conduct Unbecoming

as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang

1975
Shades of Greene

as Trevor's Father

1974
Vampyres

as Playboy

1974
Butley

as Reg Nuttall

1973
Thriller

as Richard Lovell

1972
1970
Play for Today

as Russell

1970
1969
The Image

as The Artist

1967
1963
The Scarlet Blade

as Lt. Hawke

1960
Coronation Street

as Ted Page