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Michael Byrne
London, England, UK
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 …
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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.
Filmography
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2023
Bodies
TV show Old Mullins
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2022
The Gold Machine
Movie Andrew Norton
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2019
Intrigo: Samaria
Movie Commissioner Keller
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2018
Alien Overlords
Movie Michael
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2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Movie Keller
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2018
The Last Witness
Movie Coroner
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2017
Strike
TV show Roy Phipps
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2016
The Living and the Dead
TV show Ebenezer Alsop
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2016
Agatha Raisin
TV show Bishop Parsons
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2015
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Movie Sir Charles Harwood
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2015
Cuffs
TV show Leslie Kane
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2015
Mortdecai
Movie The Duke
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2014
The First Line
Movie Richard
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2013
Diana
Movie Christiaan Barnard
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2013
Crossing Lines
TV show Edward Baxendale
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2012
Quartet
Movie Frank White
More credits
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2012
Outpost: Black Sun
Movie Neurath
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2011
The Body Farm
TV show Harold Penton
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2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie Gellert Grindelwald
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2009
Blood: The Last Vampire
Movie Elder
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2007
The Mark of Cain
Movie Lieut General Strathairn
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2005
Empire
TV show Cicero
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2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Movie Stunt Double
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2004
Beyond the Sea
Movie Dr. Andretti
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2004
Double the Fist
TV show
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2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
Movie Emil Wetterstedt
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2003
The Crooked Man
Movie Archie Saunders
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2002
Gangs of New York
Movie Horace Greeley
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2002
Ultimate Force
TV show
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2002
The Sum of All Fears
Movie Anatoli Grushkov
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2002
Sunday
Movie Lord Widgery
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2001
The Musketeer
Movie Treville, Head of the Musketeers
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2001
The Mists of Avalon
TV show Merlin
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2001
Waking the Dead
TV show Joe Brackley
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2000
Proof of Life
Movie Lord Luthan
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2000
Battlefield Earth
Movie Parson Staffer
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2000
The Holocaust on Trial
Movie Richard Rampton QC
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1999
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Movie Mr. Carruthers
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1999
The Vice
TV show Solicitor
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1998
Apt Pupil
Movie Ben Kramer
