Michael Byrne
- Interprétation
- 7 novembre 1943 · London, England, UK
- 20 juin 2026
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Bodies · Old Mullins
- The Gold Machine · Andrew Norton
- Intrigo : Samaria · Commissioner Keller
- Alien Overlords · Michael
- Intrigo : Mort d'un auteur · Keller
- The Last Witness · Coroner
- C.B. Strike · Roy Phipps
- The Living and the Dead · Ebenezer Alsop
- Agatha Raisin · Bishop Parsons
- Harry Price: Ghost Hunter · Sir Charles Harwood
- Cuffs · Leslie Kane
- Charlie Mortdecai · The Duke
- Πρόμαχος · Richard
- Diana · Christiaan Barnard
- Crossing Lines · Edward Baxendale
- Quartet · Frank White
- Outpost : Black Sun · Neurath
- The Body Farm · Harold Penton
- Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort - 1ère partie · Gellert Grindelwald
- Blood : The Last Vampire · Elder
- La Bataille de Bassora · Lieut General Strathairn
- Empire · Cicero
- Star Wars, épisode III - La Revanche des Sith · Stunt Double
- Beyond the Sea · Dr. Andretti
- Double the Fist
- Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers · Emil Wetterstedt
- The Crooked Man · Archie Saunders
- Gangs of New York · Horace Greeley
- Ultimate Force
- La Somme de toutes les peurs · Anatoli Grushkov
- Sunday · Lord Widgery
- D'Artagnan · Treville, Head of the Musketeers
- Les Brumes d'Avalon · Merlin
- Meurtres en sommeil · Joe Brackley
- L'Échange · Lord Luthan
- Battlefield Earth : Terre, champ de bataille · Parson Staffer
- The Holocaust on Trial · Richard Rampton QC
- Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei · Mr. Carruthers
- The Vice · Solicitor
- Un élève doué · Ben Kramer
- 30 Years to Life · Oliver Mather
- Hornblower: The Even Chance · Captain Keene
- Hornblower · Captain Keene
- Imogen's Face · Patrick
- Gunshy · Lange
- Heat of the Sun
- Demain ne meurt jamais · HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
- Sharpe: The Legend · Nairn
- Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse · Venables
- L'Étoile de Robinson · Bolek
- Le Saint · Vereshagin
- Inspecteur Barnaby · Keith Grundy
- The Practice : Bobby Donnell & Associés · Officer (uncredited)
- The Fix · Sam Campbell
- Deadly Voyage · Commissioner
- No Bananas · Edward Grant
- Affaires non classées
- The 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
- Sharpe's Honour · Major Nairn
- Sharpe's Enemy · Major Nairn
- Sharpe's Company · Major Nairn
- Hildegard · Volmar
- Sharpe · Major Nairn
- Inspecteur Frost · Alex Ormrod
- Running Late · Clitheroe
- Between the Lines
- Mörderische Entscheidung · Octave
- The Chief · Sir Robert Eaton
- The Plot to Kill Hitler · Friedrich Olbricht
- Screen One · Clitheroe
- Saracen · Col. Patrick Ansell
- Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade · Vogel
- Buster · Poyser
- The Happy Valley · John Carberry
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · DCC Charles Griswold