Michael Byrne
Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles 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 is 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, he has appeared 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. It is not known whether he will return to the show. 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. Father of actress Allie Byrne.
Known for
ActingBirthday
November 7, 1943Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
77Place of birth
London, England, UKAlso known as
Майкл БирнCast credits
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
VogelBlood: The Last Vampire
ElderThe Saint
VereshaginGangs of New York
Horace GreeleyBattlefield Earth
Parson StafferThe Musketeer
Treville, Head of the MusketeersThe Eagle Has Landed
KarlVampyres
PlayboyBeyond the Sea
Dr. AndrettiThe Medusa Touch
DuffBuster
PoyserThe Island on Bird Street
BolekForce 10 from Navarone
SchroederThe Good Father
Leonard ScrubyHornblower: The Even Chance
Captain KeeneSharpe's Company
Major NairnOutpost: Black Sun
NeurathRogue Male
InterrogatorButley
Reg NuttallDiana
Christiaan Barnard