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Michael Byrne

7th November 1943 London, England, UK Acting

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.

85 Movies 48 TV Shows 133 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Diana poster
Diana 19th September 2013 as Christiaan Barnard
Quartet poster
Quartet 26th December 2012 as Frank White
Sunday poster
Sunday 28th January 2002 as Lord Widgery
The Musketeer poster
The Musketeer 7th September 2001 as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Fix poster
The Fix 4th January 1997 as Sam Campbell
Buster poster
Buster 16th September 1988 as Poyser
Henry VI Part 3 poster
Henry VI Part 3 16th January 1983 as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
The Omen poster
The Omen 25th June 1976 as Monk (uncredited)
Butley poster
Butley 21st January 1974 as Reg Nuttall
Bodies poster
Bodies 19th October 2023 as Old Mullins
Strike poster
Strike 27th August 2017 as Roy Phipps
Cuffs poster
Cuffs 28th October 2015 as Leslie Kane
Sharpe poster
Sharpe 5th May 1993 as Major Nairn
Saracen poster
Saracen 2nd September 1989 as Col. Patrick Ansell