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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

Crew (1)