Acting · London, England, UK · Born November 7, 1943
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.
TVBodies
2023
as Old Mullins
MovieThe Gold Machine
2022
as Andrew Norton
MovieIntrigo: Samaria
2019
as Commissioner Keller
MovieAlien Overlords
2018
as Michael
MovieIntrigo: Death of an Author
2018
as Keller
MovieThe Last Witness
2018
as Coroner
TVStrike
2017
as Roy Phipps
TVThe Living and the Dead
2016
as Ebenezer Alsop
TVAgatha Raisin
2016
as Bishop Parsons
MovieHarry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015
as Sir Charles Harwood
TVCuffs
2015
as Leslie Kane
MovieMortdecai
2015
as The Duke
MovieRom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
2015
MovieThe First Line
2014
as Richard
MovieDiana
2013
as Christiaan Barnard
TVCrossing Lines
2013
as Edward Baxendale
MovieQuartet
2012
as Frank White
MovieOutpost: Black Sun
2012
as Neurath
TVThe Body Farm
2011
as Harold Penton
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Gellert Grindelwald
MovieBlood: The Last Vampire
2009
as Elder
MovieThe Mark of Cain
2007
as Lieut General Strathairn
TVEmpire
2005
as Cicero
MovieBeyond the Sea
2004
as Dr. Andretti
Double the Fist
2004
MovieThe Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Emil Wetterstedt
MovieThe Crooked Man
2003
as Archie Saunders
MovieGangs of New York
2002
as Horace Greeley
TVUltimate Force
2002
MovieThe Sum of All Fears
2002
as Anatoli Grushkov
MovieSunday
2002
as Lord Widgery
MovieThe Musketeer
2001
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
TVThe Mists of Avalon
2001
as Merlin
TVWaking the Dead
2001
as Joe Brackley
MovieProof of Life
2000
as Lord Luthan
MovieBattlefield Earth
2000
as Parson Staffer
MovieMauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999
as Mr. Carruthers
TVThe Vice
1999
as Solicitor
MovieApt Pupil
1998
as Ben Kramer
Movie30 Years to Life
1998
as Oliver Mather
MovieHornblower: The Even Chance
1998
as Captain Keene
TVHornblower
1998
as Captain Keene
MovieImogen's Face
1998
as Patrick
MovieGunshy
1998
as Lange
TVHeat of the Sun
1998
MovieTomorrow Never Dies
1997
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
MovieSharpe: The Legend
1997
as Nairn
MovieAgatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
as Venables
MovieThe Island on Bird Street
1997
as Bolek
MovieThe Saint
1997
as Vereshagin
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Keith Grundy
TVThe Practice
1997
as Officer (uncredited)
MovieThe Fix
1997
as Sam Campbell
TVNo Bananas
1996
as Edward Grant
TVSilent Witness
1996
MovieThe Infiltrator
1995
as Dieter Creutz
TVOliver's Travels
1995
as Moody
MovieBraveheart
1995
as Smythe
TVHamish Macbeth
1995
as Duncan Scott
MovieNostradamus
1994
as Inquisitor
MovieA Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
MovieSharpe's Honour
1994
as Major Nairn
MovieSharpe's Enemy
1994
as Major Nairn
MovieSharpe's Company
1994
as Major Nairn
MovieHildegard
1994
as Volmar
TVSharpe
1993
as Major Nairn
TVA Touch of Frost
1992
as Alex Ormrod
MovieRunning Late
1992
as Clitheroe
TVBetween the Lines
1992
Murderous Decisions
1991
as Octave
TVThe Chief
1990
as Sir Robert Eaton
MovieThe Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Friedrich Olbricht
TVScreen One
1989
as Clitheroe
TVSaracen
1989
as Col. Patrick Ansell
MovieIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Vogel
MovieBuster
1988
as Poyser
MovieThe Happy Valley
1987
as John Carberry
TVThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as DCC Charles Griswold
A Sort of Innocence
1986
MovieTheban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Chorus
TVLord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
1986
as George Abell
TVYes, Prime Minister
1986
MovieThe Good Father
1985
as Leonard Scruby
MovieIn the Secret State
1985
as Guy Preger
TVScreen Two
1985
as Guy Preger
TVEllis Island
1984
as Dr. Carl Travers
TVThe Bill
1984
MovieChampions
1984
as Richard Hussey
MovieThe Two Gentlemen of Verona
1983
as Antonio
MovieThe Scarlet and the Black
1983
as Reinhard Beck
MovieThe Tragedy of Richard III
1983
as Duke of Buckingham
MovieHenry VI Part 3
1983
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
MovieHenry VI Part 2
1983
as John Hume / Lieutenant
MovieHenry VI Part 1
1983
as Duke of Alencon
Man and Superman
1982
as Henry Straker
TVSmiley's People
1982
as Peter Guillam
TVThe Search for Alexander the Great
1981
as Demosthenes
MovieThe Silence of the Sea
1980
as Werner Von Ebrennac
TVLady Killers
1980
as Edward Marshall-Hall KC
TVThe Enigma Files
1980
as David Stanley
MovieTales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979
as Ratrick Marney
MovieComing Out
1979
as Gunnar Wedelman
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as Patrick Marney
TVThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Antonio
Accident
1978
as Ian Shaw
MovieForce 10 from Navarone
1978
as Schroeder
TVStrangers
1978
as Sgt Briscoe
TVThe Devil's Crown
1978
as Richard Lionheart
MovieThe Medusa Touch
1978
as Duff
TVThe Professionals
1977
as Werner Dreisinger
Premiere
1977
as Werner Von Ebrennac
TVSecret Army
1977
as Paul Vercors
MovieA Bridge Too Far
1977
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
MovieThe Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Karl
MovieRogue Male
1976
as Interrogator
MovieThe Omen
1976
as Monk (uncredited)
MovieBreak In
1975
as Clarke
MovieConduct Unbecoming
1975
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
MovieWednesday Love
1975
as Bruce
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
1975
as Richard Lovell
TVEdward the Seventh
1975
as Fritz
MovieVampyres
1974
as Playboy
MovieHeadmaster
1974
MovieButley
1974
as Reg Nuttall
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974
TVThriller
1973
as Richard Lovell
TVCrown Court
1972
MovieHenry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
as Edward Seymour
TVNew Scotland Yard
1972
as DS Patten
TVPlay for Today
1970
MovieThe Image
1969
as The Artist
TVITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Jason
MovieMuch Ado About Nothing
1967
as Claudio
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Viskovsky
MovieThe Silent Playground
1963
as Roger
MovieThe Scarlet Blade
1963
as Lt. Hawke
TVCoronation Street
1960
as Ted Page
Bjorn of the Dead
as Derek
