
Michael Byrne
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.
Tuntud rollide järgi
7.5 Midsomer Murders
1997
5.4 Coronation Street
1960
6.6 Play for Today
1970
6.6 Play for Today
1970
6.6 Play for Today
1970
7.6 Silent Witness
1996
7.6 The Practice
1997
7.7 Harry Potter ja surma vägised: Osa 1
2010
7.1 Screen Two
1985
5.7 Crown Court
1972
7.5 A Touch of Frost
1992
5.3 BBC Play of the Month
1965
Filmograafia
- 2022The Gold Machine (Andrew Norton)
- 2019Intrigo: Samaria (Commissioner Keller)
- 2018Alien Overlords (Michael)
- 2018Intrigo: Death of an Author (Keller)
- 2018The Last Witness (Coroner)
- 2015Harry Price: Ghost Hunter (Sir Charles Harwood)
- 2015Mortdecai (The Duke)
- 2014Πρόμαχος (Richard)
- 2013Diana (Christiaan Barnard)
- 2012Quartet (Frank White)
- 2012Outpost: Black Sun (Neurath)
- 2010Harry Potter ja surma vägised: Osa 1 (Gellert Grindelwald)
- 2009Blood: The Last Vampire (Elder)
- 2007The Mark of Cain (Lieut General Strathairn)
- 2005Empire (Cicero)
- 2004Beyond the Sea (Dr. Andretti)
- 2004Double the Fist
- 2004Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers (Emil Wetterstedt)
- 2003The Crooked Man (Archie Saunders)
- 2002New Yorgi jõugud (Horace Greeley)
- 2002Ultimate Force
- 2002Kõigi hirmude summa (Anatoli Grushkov)
- 2002Sunday (Lord Widgery)
- 2001The Musketeer (Treville, Head of the Musketeers)
- 2001The Mists of Avalon (Merlin)
- 2001Waking the Dead (Joe Brackley)
- 2000Proof of Life (Lord Luthan)
- 2000Battlefield Earth (Parson Staffer)
- 2000The Holocaust on Trial (Richard Rampton QC)
- 1999Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (Mr. Carruthers)
- 1998Apt Pupil (Ben Kramer)
- 199830 Years to Life (Oliver Mather)
- 1998Hornblower: The Even Chance (Captain Keene)
- 1998Hornblower (Captain Keene)
- 1998Imogen's Face (Patrick)
- 1998Gunshy (Lange)
- 1997Agen 007: Igavene homne (HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly)
- 1997Sharpe: The Legend (Nairn)
- 1997Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (Venables)
- 1997The Island on Bird Street (Bolek)
- 1997The Saint (Vereshagin)
- 1997The Practice (Officer (uncredited))
- 1997The Fix (Sam Campbell)
- 1996No Bananas (Edward Grant)
- 1996Silent Witness
- 1995The Infiltrator (Dieter Creutz)
- 1995Oliver's Travels (Moody)
- 1995Kartmatu (Smythe)
- 1994Nostradamus (Inquisitor)
- 1994A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (Blank/German/Old Geezer)
- 1994Sharpe's Honour (Major Nairn)
- 1994Sharpe's Enemy (Major Nairn)
- 1994Sharpe's Company (Major Nairn)
- 1994Hildegard (Volmar)
- 1993Sharpe (Major Nairn)
- 1992A Touch of Frost (Alex Ormrod)
- 1992Running Late (Clitheroe)
- 1992Between the Lines
- 1991Mörderische Entscheidung (Octave)
- 1990The Plot to Kill Hitler (Friedrich Olbricht)
- 1989Indiana Jones ja viimane ristiretk (Vogel)
- 1988Buster (Poyser)
- 1987The Happy Valley (John Carberry)
- 1986A Sort of Innocence
- 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (Chorus)
- 1986Yes, Prime Minister
- 1985The Good Father (Leonard Scruby)
- 1985In the Secret State (Guy Preger)
- 1984The Bill
- 1984Champions (Richard Hussey)
- 1983The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Antonio)
- 1983The Scarlet and the Black (Reinhard Beck)
- 1983The Tragedy of Richard III (Duke of Buckingham)
- 1983Henry VI Part 3 (Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son)
- 1983Henry VI Part 2 (John Hume / Lieutenant)
- 1983Henry VI Part 1 (Duke of Alencon)
- 1982Man and Superman (Henry Straker)
- 1982Smiley's People (Peter Guillam)
- 1980The Silence of the Sea (Werner Von Ebrennac)
- 1980The Enigma Files (David Stanley)
- 1979Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (Ratrick Marney)
- 1979Coming Out (Gunnar Wedelman)
- 1978Force 10 from Navarone (Schroeder)
- 1978The Medusa Touch (Duff)
- 1977Hõivata sillad (Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur)
- 1976The Eagle Has Landed (Karl)
- 1976Rogue Male (Interrogator)
- 1976The Omen (Monk (uncredited))
- 1975Break In (Clarke)
- 1975Conduct Unbecoming (2nd Lt. Toby Strang)
- 1975Wednesday Love (Bruce)
- 1975If It's a Man... Hang Up! (Richard Lovell)
- 1974Vampyres (Playboy)
- 1974Headmaster
- 1974Butley (Reg Nuttall)
- 1974Ms or Jill and Jack
- 1972Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Edward Seymour)
- 1969The Image (The Artist)
- 1967Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio)
- 1963The Silent Playground (Roger)
- 1963The Scarlet Blade (Lt. Hawke)
- -Bjorn of the Dead (Derek)
- 2023Bodies (Old Mullins)
- 2017Strike (Roy Phipps)
- 2016The Living and the Dead (Ebenezer Alsop)
- 2016Agatha Raisin (Bishop Parsons)
- 2015Cuffs (Leslie Kane)
- 2013Crossing Lines (Edward Baxendale)
- 2011The Body Farm (Harold Penton)
- 1999The Vice (Solicitor)
- 1998Heat of the Sun
- 1997Midsomer Murders (Keith Grundy)
- 1995Oliver's Travels
- 1995Hamish Macbeth (Duncan Scott)
- 1990The Chief (Sir Robert Eaton)
- 1989Screen One (Clitheroe)
- 1989Saracen (Col. Patrick Ansell)
- 1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (DCC Charles Griswold)
- 1986Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (George Abell)
- 1985Screen Two (Guy Preger)
- 1984Ellis Island (Dr. Carl Travers)
- 1981The Search for Alexander the Great (Demosthenes)
- 1980Lady Killers (Edward Marshall-Hall)
- 1980Lady Killers (Edward Marshall-Hall KC)
- 1979Tales of the Unexpected (Patrick Marney)
- 1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (Antonio)
- 1978Accident (Ian Shaw)
- 1978Strangers (Sgt Briscoe)
- 1978The Devil's Crown (Richard Lionheart)
- 1977The Professionals (Werner Dreisinger)
- 1977Premiere (Werner Von Ebrennac)
- 1977Secret Army (Paul Vercors)
- 1975Edward the Seventh (Fritz)
- 1973Thriller (Richard Lovell)
- 1972Crown Court
- 1972New Scotland Yard (DS Patten)
- 1970Play for Today
- 1970Play for Today (Russell)
- 1970Play for Today (Bruce)
- 1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre (Jason)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Viskovsky)
- 1960Coronation Street (Ted Page)