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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1943
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Майкл Бирн
Michael Byrne
1.0 Popularity
Biography
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
7.2
Old Mullins
Bodies
2023
5.0
Andrew Norton
The Gold Machine
2022
5.5
Commissioner Keller
Intrigo: Samaria
2019
4.0
Michael
Alien Overlords
2018
5.3
Keller
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
5.8
Coroner
The Last Witness
2018
7.2
Roy Phipps
Strike
2017
6.7
Ebenezer Alsop
The Living and the Dead
2016
6.1
Bishop Parsons
Agatha Raisin
2016
6.2
Sir Charles Harwood
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015
Credits
Bodies
as Old Mullins
2023
7.2
The Gold Machine
as Andrew Norton
2022
5.0
Intrigo: Samaria
as Commissioner Keller
2019
5.5
Alien Overlords
as Michael
2018
4.0
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Keller
2018
5.3
The Last Witness
as Coroner
2018
5.8
Strike
as Roy Phipps
2017
7.2
The Living and the Dead
as Ebenezer Alsop
2016
6.7
Agatha Raisin
as Bishop Parsons
2016
6.1
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles Harwood
2015
6.2
Mortdecai
as The Duke
2015
5.5
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
2015
0.0
The First Line
as Richard
2014
6.0
Diana
as Christiaan Barnard
2013
5.6
Crossing Lines
as Edward Baxendale
2013
6.7
Quartet
as Frank White
2012
6.5
Outpost: Black Sun
as Neurath
2012
5.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Gellert Grindelwald
2010
7.7
Blood: The Last Vampire
as Elder
2009
5.8
The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General Strathairn
2007
5.2
Empire
as Cicero
2005
6.4
Beyond the Sea
as Dr. Andretti
2004
6.3
🎬
Double the Fist
2004
7.0
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil Wetterstedt
2004
4.8
🎬
The Crooked Man
as Archie Saunders
2003
0.0
Gangs of New York
as Horace Greeley
2002
7.3
Ultimate Force
2002
6.6
The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli Grushkov
2002
6.4
Sunday
as Lord Widgery
2002
7.4
The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
2001
5.2
The Mists of Avalon
as Merlin
2001
6.7
Waking the Dead
as Joe Brackley
2001
7.2
Proof of Life
as Lord Luthan
2000
6.1
Battlefield Earth
as Parson Staffer
2000
3.3
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. Carruthers
1999
7.6
The Vice
1999
5.3
Apt Pupil
as Ben Kramer
1998
6.5
30 Years to Life
as Oliver Mather
1998
5.0
Hornblower
as Captain Keene
1998
7.7
Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain Keene
1998
7.5
Imogen's Face
as Patrick
1998
2.0
Gunshy
as Lange
1998
5.4
Heat of the Sun
1998
5.9
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
1997
6.4
Sharpe: The Legend
as Nairn
1997
5.0
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Venables
1997
5.8
The Island on Bird Street
as Bolek
1997
7.2
The Saint
as Vereshagin
1997
6.1
Midsomer Murders
as Keith Grundy
1997
7.5
The Practice
as Officer (uncredited)
1997
7.6
The Fix
as Sam Campbell
1997
2.8
No Bananas
as Edward Grant
1996
5.0
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
The Infiltrator
as Dieter Creutz
1995
5.9
Oliver's Travels
as Moody
1995
5.0
Oliver's Travels
1995
5.0
Braveheart
as Smythe
1995
7.9
Hamish Macbeth
as Duncan Scott
1995
7.5
Nostradamus
as Inquisitor
1994
5.7
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
1994
2.0
Sharpe's Honour
as Major Nairn
1994
6.6
Sharpe's Enemy
as Major Nairn
1994
6.8
Sharpe's Company
as Major Nairn
1994
6.7
Hildegard
as Volmar
1994
0.0
Sharpe
as Major Nairn
1993
8.0
A Touch of Frost
as Alex Ormrod
1992
7.5
Running Late
as Clitheroe
1992
0.0
Between the Lines
1992
5.2
🎬
Murderous Decisions
as Octave
1991
0.0
The Chief
as Sir Robert Eaton
1990
6.0
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Friedrich Olbricht
1990
6.0
Saracen
as Col. Patrick Ansell
1989
5.0
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Vogel
1989
7.8
Buster
as Poyser
1988
5.6
The Happy Valley
as John Carberry
1987
5.8
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as DCC Charles Griswold
1987
6.3
🎬
A Sort of Innocence
1986
0.0
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
1986
2.0
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
as George Abell
1986
5.0
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
8.4
The Good Father
as Leonard Scruby
1985
5.4
In the Secret State
as Guy Preger
1985
0.0
Ellis Island
as Dr. Carl Travers
1984
4.6
The Bill
1984
6.7
Champions
as Richard Hussey
1984
6.6
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
as Antonio
1983
6.3
The Scarlet and the Black
as Reinhard Beck
1983
7.0
The Tragedy of Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
1983
6.0
Henry VI Part 3
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
1983
7.0
Henry VI Part 2
as John Hume / Lieutenant
1983
7.0
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of Alencon
1983
7.5
🎬
Man and Superman
as Henry Straker
1982
0.0
Smiley's People
as Peter Guillam
1982
7.7
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Demosthenes
1981
5.0
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner Von Ebrennac
1980
0.0
Lady Killers
as Edward Marshall-Hall KC
1980
5.0
Lady Killers
as Edward Marshall-Hall
1980
5.0
The Enigma Files
as David Stanley
1980
5.5
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
as Ratrick Marney
1979
0.0
Coming Out
as Gunnar Wedelman
1979
4.5
Tales of the Unexpected
as Patrick Marney
1979
6.7
🎬
Accident
as Ian Shaw
1978
0.0
Force 10 from Navarone
as Schroeder
1978
6.2
The Devil's Crown
as Richard Lionheart
1978
7.3
The Medusa Touch
as Duff
1978
6.8
The Professionals
as Werner Dreisinger
1977
7.5
Secret Army
as Paul Vercors
1977
7.5
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
1977
7.2
The Eagle Has Landed
as Karl
1976
6.6
Rogue Male
as Interrogator
1976
6.5
The Omen
as Monk (uncredited)
1976
7.4
Break In
as Clarke
1975
0.0
Conduct Unbecoming
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
1975
5.7
Shades of Greene
as Trevor's Father
1975
10.0
Wednesday Love
as Bruce
1975
0.0
🎬
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
as Richard Lovell
1975
8.0
Edward the Seventh
as Fritz
1975
6.3
Vampyres
as Playboy
1974
5.9
Headmaster
1974
0.0
Butley
as Reg Nuttall
1974
6.0
🎬
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974
0.0
Thriller
as Richard Lovell
1973
6.6
Crown Court
1972
5.4
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Edward Seymour
1972
5.6
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Russell
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Bruce
1970
6.3
The Image
as The Artist
1969
4.7
Much Ado About Nothing
as Claudio
1967
5.5
BBC Play of the Month
as Viskovsky
1965
5.0
The Silent Playground
as Roger
1963
4.7
The Scarlet Blade
as Lt. Hawke
1963
5.4
Coronation Street
as Ted Page
1960
5.3
🎬
Bjorn of the Dead
as Derek
N/A
0.0