Michael Byrne was a British actor sometimes cast as Nazis 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 was 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, heappeared 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. 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. He was the father of actress Allie Byrne.
83 movies · 54 shows
The Gold Machine
2022·5.0
Intrigo: Samaria
2019·5.5
Alien Overlords
2018·4.0
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018·5.3
The Last Witness
2018·5.8
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015·6.1
Mortdecai
2015·5.5
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
2015·0.0
The First Line
2014·5.0
Diana
2013·5.6
Quartet
2012·6.5
Outpost: Black Sun
2012·5.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009·5.9
The Mark of Cain
2007·5.2
Beyond the Sea
2004·6.3
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004·5.3
The Crooked Man
2003·9.0
Gangs of New York
2002·7.3
The Sum of All Fears
2002·6.4
Sunday
2002·7.7
The Musketeer
2001·5.3
Proof of Life
2000·6.2
Battlefield Earth
2000·3.3
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999·7.7
Apt Pupil
1998·6.6
30 Years to Life
1998·6.3
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998·7.5
Imogen's Face
1998·6.0
Gunshy
1998·5.3
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997·6.4
Sharpe: The Legend
1997·6.1
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997·6.1
The Island on Bird Street
1997·7.3
The Saint
1997·6.1
The Fix
1997·3.8
The Infiltrator
1995·6.5
Braveheart
1995·7.9
Nostradamus
1994·5.8
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994·4.7
Sharpe's Honour
1994·6.7
Sharpe's Enemy
1994·6.8
Sharpe's Company
1994·6.8
Hildegard
1994·6.5
Running Late
1992·9.0
Murderous Decisions
1991·9.0
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990·6.2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989·7.9
Buster
1988·5.7
The Happy Valley
1987·6.1
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986·4.5
The Good Father
1985·5.6
In the Secret State
1985·7.0
Champions
1984·6.6
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1983·6.5
The Scarlet and the Black
1983·7.0
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983·8.0
Henry VI Part 3
1983·8.0
Henry VI Part 2
1983·7.5
Henry VI Part 1
1983·7.7
Man and Superman
1982·9.0
The Silence of the Sea
1980·0.0
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979·0.0
Coming Out
1979·5.0
Force 10 from Navarone
1978·6.2
The Medusa Touch
1978·6.8
A Bridge Too Far
1977·7.2
The Eagle Has Landed
1976·6.6
Rogue Male
1976·6.5
The Omen
1976·7.4
Break In
1975·0.0
Conduct Unbecoming
1975·5.9
Wednesday Love
1975·0.0
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
1975·8.3
Vampyres
1974·6.0
Headmaster
1974·7.0
Butley
1974·6.7
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974·8.0
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972·5.8
The Image
1969·5.0
Much Ado About Nothing
1967·6.3
The Silent Playground
1963·5.3
The Scarlet Blade
1963·5.7