
Michael Byrne
Born November 7, 1943 · London, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Braveheart

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Sum of All Fears

Tomorrow Never Dies

Gangs of New York

A Bridge Too Far

The Omen

The Saint

Mortdecai

The Eagle Has Landed

Battlefield Earth

Blood: The Last Vampire

The Musketeer

Proof of Life

Force 10 from Navarone

Apt Pupil

Quartet

Beyond the Sea

The Scarlet and the Black

The Medusa Touch

Diana

Intrigo: Death of an Author

Vampyres

The Island on Bird Street

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse

The Mark of Cain

Hornblower: The Even Chance

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

The Return of the Dancing Master

The Infiltrator

The Last Witness

Intrigo: Samaria

Sharpe's Company

Outpost: Black Sun

The Tragedy of Richard III

Sharpe's Enemy

Henry VI Part 2

Sharpe: The Legend

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Gunshy

Henry VI Part 1

The First Line

The Good Father

Wednesday Love

Much Ado About Nothing
TV Shows

BBC Play of the Month

Silent Witness

Crown Court

Tales of the Unexpected

Screen Two

The Bill

Waking the Dead

The Professionals

A Touch of Frost

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Sharpe

Crossing Lines

New Scotland Yard

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Strike

Thriller

Between the Lines

Screen One

The Vice

Agatha Raisin

The Chief

Secret Army

Hamish Macbeth

Strangers

Lady Killers

Bodies

Hornblower

Smiley's People

Ultimate Force

The Mists of Avalon

Cuffs

Yes, Prime Minister

Empire

The Living and the Dead

Ellis Island

The Body Farm

Edward the Seventh

The Enigma Files

No Bananas

Oliver's Travels

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Saracen

Heat of the Sun

The Devil's Crown

The Search for Alexander the Great
More Movies

Henry VI Part 3

30 Years to Life

Nostradamus

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter

Buster

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Rogue Male

The Image

Conduct Unbecoming

A Few Short Journeys of the Heart

Sharpe's Honour

The Happy Valley

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

Champions

In the Secret State

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Fix

Alien Overlords

The Scarlet Blade

Break In

Hildegard

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

Man and Superman

The Holocaust on Trial

Sunday

Imogen's Face

Running Late

The Silent Playground

Coming Out

Butley

The Crooked Man

The Gold Machine

The Silence of the Sea




