Michael Byrne
- Schauspiel
- 7. November 1943 · London, England, UK
- 20. Juni 2026
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Bodies · Old Mullins
- The Gold Machine · Andrew Norton
- Intrigo: Samaria · Commissioner Keller
- Alien Overlords · Michael
- Intrigo - Tod eines Autors · Keller
- The Last Witness · Coroner
- Strike · Roy Phipps
- The Living and the Dead · Ebenezer Alsop
- Agatha Raisin · Bishop Parsons
- Harry Price: Ghost Hunter · Sir Charles Harwood
- Cuffs · Leslie Kane
- Mortdecai - Der Teilzeitgauner · The Duke
- Πρόμαχος · Richard
- Diana · Christiaan Barnard
- Crossing Lines · Edward Baxendale
- Quartett · Frank White
- Outpost - Black Sun · Neurath
- The Body Farm · Harold Penton
- Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes - Teil 1 · Gellert Grindelwald
- Blood: The Last Vampire · Elder
- Scars of War - Kriegsnarben sind tief · Lieut General Strathairn
- Imperium · Cicero
- Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith · Stunt Double
- Beyond the Sea - Musik war sein Leben · Dr. Andretti
- Double the Fist
- Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers · Emil Wetterstedt
- The Crooked Man · Archie Saunders
- Gangs of New York · Horace Greeley
- Ultimate Force
- Der Anschlag · Anatoli Grushkov
- Sunday · Lord Widgery
- The Musketeer · Treville, Head of the Musketeers
- Die Nebel von Avalon · Merlin
- Waking the Dead - Im Auftrag der Toten · Joe Brackley
- Lebenszeichen - Proof of Life · Lord Luthan
- Battlefield Earth - Kampf um die Erde · Parson Staffer
- The Holocaust on Trial · Richard Rampton QC
- Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei · Mr. Carruthers
- The Vice · Solicitor
- Der Musterschüler · Ben Kramer
- Time Out - Richter der Zeit · Oliver Mather
- Hornblower - Die gleiche Chance · Captain Keene
- Hornblower · Captain Keene
- Imogen's Face · Patrick
- Gunshy - Aus Leidenschaft zum Mörder · Lange
- Heat of the Sun
- James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie · HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
- Sharpe: The Legend · Nairn
- Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse · Venables
- The Island on Bird Street · Bolek
- The Saint - Der Mann ohne Namen · Vereshagin
- Inspector Barnaby · Keith Grundy
- Practice - Die Anwälte · Officer (uncredited)
- The Fix · Sam Campbell
- Deadly Voyage – Treibgut des Todes · Commissioner
- No Bananas · Edward Grant
- Silent Witness
- Der Infiltrator · Dieter Creutz
- Oliver's Travels · Moody
- Braveheart · Smythe
- Hamish Macbeth · Duncan Scott
- Nostradamus · Inquisitor
- A Few Short Journeys of the Heart · Blank/German/Old Geezer
- Die Scharfschützen - Der Preis der Ehre · Major Nairn
- Die Scharfschützen - Armee des Schreckens · Major Nairn
- Die Scharfschützen - Kommando ohne Wiederkehr · Major Nairn
- Hildegard · Volmar
- Die Scharfschützen · Major Nairn
- A Touch of Frost · Alex Ormrod
- Running Late · Clitheroe
- Between the Lines
- Mörderische Entscheidung · Octave
- The Chief · Sir Robert Eaton
- Stauffenberg - Verschwörung gegen Hitler · Friedrich Olbricht
- Screen One · Clitheroe
- Saracen · Col. Patrick Ansell
- Indiana Jones und der letzte Kreuzzug · Vogel
- Buster · Poyser
- The Happy Valley · John Carberry
- Inspektor Wexford ermittelt · DCC Charles Griswold