Michael Byrne
85 movies · 54 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 7, 1943
- Died
- Jun 20, 2026 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Майкл Бирн
Biography
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
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★ 7.9 Braveheart
1995 · Film
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★ 7.9 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Film
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★ 7.3 Gangs of New York
2002 · Film
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★ 6.4 Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Film
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★ 5.5 Mortdecai
2015 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Omen
1976 · Film
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★ 6.4 The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Film
Michael Byrne: movies and TV shows
Acting (138)
- Upcoming Bjorn of the Dead
as Derek
- 2023
- 2022 The Gold Machine
as Andrew Norton
- 2019 Intrigo: Samaria
as Commissioner Keller
- 2018 Alien Overlords
as Michael
- 2018 Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Keller
- 2018 The Last Witness
as Coroner
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015 Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles Harwood
- 2015
- 2015 Mortdecai
as The Duke
- 2014 The First Line
as Richard
- 2013 Diana
as Christiaan Barnard
- 2013
- 2012 Quartet
as Frank White
- 2012 Outpost: Black Sun
as Neurath
- 2011
- 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Gellert Grindelwald
- 2009 Blood: The Last Vampire
as Elder
- 2007 The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General Strathairn
- 2005
- 2004 Beyond the Sea
as Dr. Andretti
- 2004
- 2004 The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil Wetterstedt
- 2003 The Crooked Man
as Archie Saunders
- 2002 Gangs of New York
as Horace Greeley
- 2002
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli Grushkov
- 2002 Sunday
as Lord Widgery
- 2001 The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000 Proof of Life
as Lord Luthan
- 2000 Battlefield Earth
as Parson Staffer
- 2000 The Holocaust on Trial
as Richard Rampton QC
- 1999 Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. Carruthers
- 1999
- 1998 Apt Pupil
as Ben Kramer
- 1998 30 Years to Life
as Oliver Mather
- 1998 Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain Keene
- 1998
- 1998 Imogen's Face
as Patrick
- 1998 Gunshy
as Lange
- 1998
- 1997 Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
- 1997 Sharpe: The Legend
as Nairn
- 1997 Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Venables
- 1997 The Island on Bird Street
as Bolek
- 1997 The Saint
as Vereshagin
- 1997
- 1997
- 1997 The Fix
as Sam Campbell
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995 The Infiltrator
as Dieter Creutz
- 1995
- 1995 Braveheart
as Smythe
- 1995
- 1994 Nostradamus
as Inquisitor
- 1994 A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
- 1994 Sharpe's Honour
as Major Nairn
- 1994 Sharpe's Enemy
as Major Nairn
- 1994 Sharpe's Company
as Major Nairn
- 1994 Hildegard
as Volmar
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 Running Late
as Clitheroe
- 1992
- 1991 Murderous Decisions
as Octave
- 1990
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Friedrich Olbricht
- 1989
- 1989
- 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Vogel
- 1988 Buster
as Poyser
- 1987 The Happy Valley
as John Carberry
- 1987
- 1986
- 1986 Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
- 1986
- 1986
- 1985 The Good Father
as Leonard Scruby
- 1985 In the Secret State
as Guy Preger
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984 Champions
as Richard Hussey
- 1983 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
as Antonio
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black
as Reinhard Beck
- 1983 The Tragedy of Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
- 1983 Henry VI Part 3
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
- 1983 Henry VI Part 2
as John Hume / Lieutenant
- 1983 Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of Alencon
- 1982 Man and Superman
as Henry Straker
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980 The Silence of the Sea
as Werner Von Ebrennac
- 1980
- 1980
- 1979 Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
as Ratrick Marney
- 1979 Coming Out
as Gunnar Wedelman
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978 Force 10 from Navarone
as Schroeder
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978 The Medusa Touch
as Duff
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
- 1976 The Eagle Has Landed
as Karl
- 1976 Rogue Male
as Interrogator
- 1976 The Omen
as Monk (uncredited)
- 1975 Break In
as Clarke
- 1975 Conduct Unbecoming
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
- 1975 Wednesday Love
as Bruce
- 1975 If It's a Man – Hang Up!
as Richard Lovell
- 1975
- 1974 Vampyres
as Playboy
- 1974
- 1974 Butley
as Reg Nuttall
- 1974
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Edward Seymour
- 1972
- 1970
- 1969 The Image
as The Artist
- 1969
- 1967 Much Ado About Nothing
as Claudio
- 1965
- 1963 The Silent Playground
as Roger
- 1963 The Scarlet Blade
as Lt. Hawke
- 1960
Behind the camera (1)
- 2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Stunt Double