Michael Byrne
Born November 07, 1943 (Age: 82)
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London, England, UK
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.
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.
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Filmography
Mortdecai
2015
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as The Duke
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Age: 71
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
2015
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as
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Age: 71
Diana
2013
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as Christiaan Barnard
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Age: 69
Quartet
2012
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as Frank White
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Age: 69
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
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as Gellert Grindelwald
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Age: 67
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009
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as Elder
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Age: 65
Beyond the Sea
2004
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as Dr. Andretti
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Age: 61
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
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as Emil Wetterstedt
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Age: 60
Gangs of New York
2002
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as Horace Greeley
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Age: 59
The Sum of All Fears
2002
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as Anatoli Grushkov
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Age: 58
Sunday
2002
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as Lord Widgery
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Age: 58
The Musketeer
2001
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as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
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Age: 57
Proof of Life
2000
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as Lord Luthan
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Age: 57
Battlefield Earth
2000
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as Parson Staffer
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Age: 56
Apt Pupil
1998
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as Ben Kramer
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Age: 54
30 Years to Life
1998
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as Oliver Mather
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Age: 54
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
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as Captain Keene
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Age: 54
Imogen's Face
1998
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as Patrick
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Age: 54
Gunshy
1998
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as Lange
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Age: 54
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
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as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
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Age: 54
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
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as Nairn
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Age: 53
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
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as Venables
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Age: 53
The Island on Bird Street
1997
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as Bolek
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Age: 53
The Saint
1997
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as Vereshagin
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Age: 53
The Fix
1997
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as Sam Campbell
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Age: 53
Braveheart
1995
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as Smythe
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Age: 51
Hildegard
1994
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as Volmar
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Age: 50
Running Late
1992
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as Clitheroe
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Age: 48
No Image
Murderous Decisions
1991
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as Octave
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Age: 48
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
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as Friedrich Olbricht
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Age: 46
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
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as Vogel
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Age: 45
Buster
1988
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as Poyser
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Age: 44
The Happy Valley
1987
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as John Carberry
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Age: 43
The Good Father
1985
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as Leonard Scruby
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Age: 41
In the Secret State
1985
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as Guy Preger
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Age: 41
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
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as Demosthenes
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Age: 37
The Silence of the Sea
1980
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as Werner Von Ebrennac
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Age: 37
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979
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as Ratrick Marney
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Age: 35
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
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as Schroeder
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Age: 34
The Medusa Touch
1978
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as Duff
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Age: 34
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
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Age: 33
The Omen
1976
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as Monk (uncredited)
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Age: 32
Break In
1975
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as Clarke
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Age: 31
Vampyres
1974
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as Playboy
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Age: 30
Headmaster
1974
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as
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Age: 30
Butley
1974
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as Reg Nuttall
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Age: 30
No Image
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974
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as
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Age: 30
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
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as Edward Seymour
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Age: 28
The Image
1969
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as The Artist
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Age: 25
The Silent Playground
1963
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as Roger
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Age: 20
The Scarlet Blade
1963
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as Lt. Hawke
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Age: 19