Michael Byrne
Acting
Born 1943-11-07
Died 2026-06-20
London, England, UK
140 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
53 credits
Midsomer Murders
Coronation Street
Play for Today
The Practice
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
A Touch of Frost
BBC Play of the Month
Tales of the Unexpected
Screen Two
The Professionals
Waking the Dead
Braveheart
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Crossing Lines
Strike
Sharpe
The Sum of All Fears
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Bodies
Thriller
Agatha Raisin
Tomorrow Never Dies
Gangs of New York
Secret Army
A Bridge Too Far
The Omen
Screen One
Strangers
The Chief
Hornblower
New Scotland Yard
Hamish Macbeth
The Vice
The Saint
Empire
Mortdecai
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Battlefield Earth
Lady Killers
Apt Pupil
Proof of Life
Smiley's People
The Musketeer
The Mists of Avalon
Edward the Seventh
The Eagle Has Landed
Force 10 from Navarone
Premiere
Cuffs
The Body Farm
Vampyres
Blood: The Last Vampire
Other credits
7 credits
Silent Witness
Crown Court
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Bill
Between the Lines
Ultimate Force
Yes, Prime Minister
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