
Michael Byrne
Acting
🎂 1943-11-07
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.
Cast credits(134)

Ted Page
1960

Keith Grundy
1997

Officer (uncredited)
1997

1970

Russell
1970

Bruce
1970

Viskovsky
1965

1996

Alex Ormrod
1992

Duke of Buckingham
1978

Antonio
1978

Duke of Alençon
1978

John Hume/Ship's Lieutenant
1978

Marquess of Montague/Father who killed his son
1978

Patrick Marney
1979

Joe Brackley
2001

Old Mullins
2023

Edward Baxendale
2013

Werner Dreisinger
1977

1992

Bishop Parsons
2016

Captain Keene
1998

1972

Roy Phipps
2017

1974

1999

Ebenezer Alsop
2016

Gellert Grindelwald
2010

Edward Marshall-Hall KC
1980

Edward Marshall-Hall
1980

Richard Lovell
1973

DCC Charles Griswold
1987

Dr. Carl Travers
1984

Major Nairn
1993

1984

Paul Vercors
1977

Smythe
1995

Duncan Scott
1995

Cicero
2005

Vogel
1989

1986
2004

Peter Guillam
1982

Moody
1995

1995

David Stanley
1980

Anatoli Grushkov
2002

Horace Greeley
2002

HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
1997

2002

Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
1977

Monk (uncredited)
1976

The Duke
2015
1986

1998

Vereshagin
1997

Merlin
2001

Parson Staffer
2000

Karl
1976

Lord Luthan
2000

Inquisitor
1994

Col. Patrick Ansell
1989

Schroeder
1978

Ben Kramer
1998

Poyser
1988

Christiaan Barnard
2013

Bolek
1997

Elder
2009

Frank White
2012

George Abell
1986

Duff
1978

Treville, Head of the Musketeers
2001

Lange
1998

Playboy
1974

Keller
2018

Neurath
2012

Leonard Scruby
1985

Reinhard Beck
1983

Edward Grant
1996

2nd Lt. Toby Strang
1975

Dr. Andretti
2004

Edward Seymour
1972

Friedrich Olbricht
1990

Interrogator
1976

Clitheroe
1992

Coroner
2018

John Carberry
1987

Trevor's Father
1975

Commissioner Keller
2019

Lord Widgery
2002

Lieut General Strathairn
2007

Venables
1997

Richard Hussey
1984

Nairn
1997

Major Nairn
1994

Sam Campbell
1997

Major Nairn
1994

Duke of Buckingham
1983

Sir Charles Harwood
2015

Major Nairn
1994

Michael
2018

Captain Keene
1998

Richard
2014

Oliver Mather
1998

Claudio
1967

Lt. Hawke
1963

Gunnar Wedelman
1979
Archie Saunders
2003

Dieter Creutz
1995

Reg Nuttall
1974

Guy Preger
1985

Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
1983

John Hume / Lieutenant
1983

Demosthenes
1981

Duke of Alencon
1983

The Artist
1969

Patrick
1998

Chorus
1986

Volmar
1994

1974
Octave
1991
Richard Lovell
1975

Blank/German/Old Geezer
1994

Roger
1963

Mr. Carruthers
1999

Antonio
1983
Henry Straker
1982
1974

Emil Wetterstedt
2004

Andrew Norton
2022

Bryden Thomas
1995

Clarke
1975

Werner Von Ebrennac
1980

Bruce
1975