Cast
Michael Byrne
Acting
Cast
Michael Byrne
Known for
Acting
Born
1943-11-07
From
London, England, UK
Died
2026-06-20
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.
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Gellert Grindelwald
★7.9
MOVIE1995
Braveheart
as Smythe
★7.9
MOVIE1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Vogel
★6.4
MOVIE2002
The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli Grushkov
★7.3
MOVIE2002
Gangs of New York
as Horace Greeley
★6.4
MOVIE1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
★7.4
MOVIE1976
The Omen
as Monk (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1977
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
★5.5
MOVIE2015
Mortdecai
as The Duke
★6.1
MOVIE1997
The Saint
as Vereshagin
★6.6
MOVIE1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Karl
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Blood: The Last Vampire
as Elder
★3.3
MOVIE2000
Battlefield Earth
as Parson Staffer
★6.6
MOVIE1998
Apt Pupil
as Ben Kramer
★5.5
MOVIE2019
Intrigo: Samaria
as Commissioner Keller
★5.0
MOVIE2014
The First Line
as Richard
★6.2
MOVIE1978
Force 10 from Navarone
as Schroeder
★6.5
MOVIE2012
Quartet
as Frank White
★6.1
MOVIE2000
Proof of Life
as Lord Luthan
★5.3
MOVIE2001
The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
★5.0
MOVIE2012
Outpost: Black Sun
as Neurath
★6.0
MOVIE1974
Vampyres
as Playboy
MOVIE1975
Wednesday Love
as Bruce
★5.4
MOVIE1998
Gunshy
as Lange
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The Infiltrator
as Dieter Creutz
★7.0
MOVIE1983
The Scarlet and the Black
as Reinhard Beck
★4.0
MOVIE2018
Alien Overlords
as Michael
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Company
as Major Nairn
★9.0
MOVIE1991
Murderous Decisions
as Octave
★5.6
MOVIE2013
Diana
as Christiaan Barnard
★7.2
MOVIE1997
The Island on Bird Street
as Bolek
★5.0
MOVIE1969
The Image
as The Artist
★6.3
MOVIE2004
Beyond the Sea
as Dr. Andretti
★6.2
MOVIE1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Friedrich Olbricht
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Sharpe: The Legend
as Nairn
★5.8
MOVIE1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Edward Seymour
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Enemy
as Major Nairn
★5.0
MOVIE2022
The Gold Machine
as Andrew Norton
★5.9
MOVIE1975
Conduct Unbecoming
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
★6.3
MOVIE1967
Much Ado About Nothing
as Claudio
★6.8
MOVIE1978
The Medusa Touch
as Duff
★7.7
MOVIE1983
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of Alencon
★5.3
MOVIE2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Keller
★5.7
MOVIE1988
Buster
as Poyser
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Sharpe's Honour
as Major Nairn
★6.1
MOVIE1987
The Happy Valley
as John Carberry
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Venables
★5.8
MOVIE2018
The Last Witness
as Coroner
★5.7
MOVIE1963
The Scarlet Blade
as Lt. Hawke
★6.6
MOVIE1984
Champions
as Richard Hussey
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Hildegard
as Volmar
★8.0
MOVIE1983
Henry VI Part 3
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
MOVIE2015
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
★7.5
MOVIE1983
Henry VI Part 2
as John Hume / Lieutenant
★7.5
MOVIE1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain Keene
★6.1
MOVIE2015
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles Harwood
★5.8
MOVIE1994
Nostradamus
as Inquisitor
★3.8
MOVIE1997
The Fix
as Sam Campbell
★6.0
MOVIE1998
Imogen's Face
as Patrick
★6.5
MOVIE1976
Rogue Male
as Interrogator
★8.3
MOVIE1975
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
as Richard Lovell
★5.6
MOVIE1985
The Good Father
as Leonard Scruby
★8.0
MOVIE1983
The Tragedy of Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Ms or Jill and Jack
MOVIE1975
Break In
as Clarke
★5.2
MOVIE2007
The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General Strathairn
★9.0
MOVIE1982
Man and Superman
as Henry Straker
★5.3
MOVIE2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil Wetterstedt
★6.7
MOVIE1974
Butley
as Reg Nuttall
★7.0
MOVIE1985
In the Secret State
as Guy Preger
★6.5
MOVIE1983
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
as Antonio
★9.0
MOVIE2003
The Crooked Man
as Archie Saunders
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Running Late
as Clitheroe
★7.7
MOVIE2002
Sunday
as Lord Widgery
★4.5
MOVIE1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
★6.3
MOVIE1998
30 Years to Life
as Oliver Mather
★5.0
MOVIE1979
Coming Out
as Gunnar Wedelman
MOVIE1979
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
as Ratrick Marney
★7.7
MOVIE1999
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. Carruthers
MOVIETBA
Bjorn of the Dead
as Derek
MOVIE1980
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner Von Ebrennac
★5.3
MOVIE1963
The Silent Playground
as Roger
★7.0
MOVIE1974
Headmaster
★4.7
MOVIE1994
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
as Blank/German/Old Geezer