Michael Byrne
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 7, 1943
- Died
- Jun 20, 2026 (aged 82)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Credits
- 138
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.
Known for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Gellert Grindelwald
Braveheart
1995Movie
Smythe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989Movie
Vogel
Gangs of New York
2002Movie
Horace Greeley
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997Movie
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Mortdecai
2015Movie
The Duke
Filmography
Bodies
2023TV
Old Mullins
The Gold Machine
2022Movie
Andrew Norton
Intrigo: Samaria
2019Movie
Commissioner Keller
Alien Overlords
2018Movie
Michael
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018Movie
Keller
The Last Witness
2018Movie
Coroner
Strike
2017TV
Roy Phipps
The Living and the Dead
2016TV
Ebenezer Alsop
Agatha Raisin
2016TV
Bishop Parsons
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015Movie
Sir Charles Harwood
Cuffs
2015TV
Leslie Kane
Mortdecai
2015Movie
The Duke
The First Line
2014Movie
Richard
Diana
2013Movie
Christiaan Barnard
Crossing Lines
2013TV
Edward Baxendale
Quartet
2012Movie
Frank White
Outpost: Black Sun
2012Movie
Neurath
The Body Farm
2011TV
Harold Penton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Gellert Grindelwald
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009Movie
Elder
The Mark of Cain
2007Movie
Lieut General Strathairn
Empire
2005TV
Cicero
Beyond the Sea
2004Movie
Dr. Andretti
Double the Fist
2004TV
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004Movie
Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
2003Movie
Archie Saunders
Gangs of New York
2002Movie
Horace Greeley
Ultimate Force
2002TV
The Sum of All Fears
2002Movie
Anatoli Grushkov
Sunday
2002Movie
Lord Widgery
The Musketeer
2001Movie
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Mists of Avalon
2001TV
Merlin
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Joe Brackley
Proof of Life
2000Movie
Lord Luthan
Battlefield Earth
2000Movie
Parson Staffer
The Holocaust on Trial
2000Movie
Richard Rampton QC
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999Movie
Mr. Carruthers
The Vice
1999TV
Solicitor
Apt Pupil
1998Movie
Ben Kramer
30 Years to Life
1998Movie
Oliver Mather
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998Movie
Captain Keene
Hornblower
1998TV
Captain Keene
Imogen's Face
1998Movie
Patrick
Gunshy
1998Movie
Lange
Heat of the Sun
1998TV
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997Movie
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Sharpe: The Legend
1997Movie
Nairn
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997Movie
Venables
The Island on Bird Street
1997Movie
Bolek
The Saint
1997Movie
Vereshagin
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Keith Grundy
The Practice
1997TV
Officer (uncredited)
The Fix
1997Movie
Sam Campbell
No Bananas
1996TV
Edward Grant
Silent Witness
1996TV
The Infiltrator
1995Movie
Dieter Creutz
Oliver's Travels
1995TV
Moody
Braveheart
1995Movie
Smythe
Hamish Macbeth
1995TV
Duncan Scott
Nostradamus
1994Movie
Inquisitor
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994Movie
Blank/German/Old Geezer
Sharpe's Honour
1994Movie
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Enemy
1994Movie
Major Nairn
Sharpe's Company
1994Movie
Major Nairn
Hildegard
1994Movie
Volmar
Sharpe
1993TV
Major Nairn
A Touch of Frost
1992TV
Alex Ormrod
Running Late
1992Movie
Clitheroe
Between the Lines
1992TV
Murderous Decisions
1991Movie
Octave
The Chief
1990TV
Sir Robert Eaton
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990Movie
Friedrich Olbricht
Screen One
1989TV
Clitheroe
Saracen
1989TV
Col. Patrick Ansell
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989Movie
Vogel
Buster
1988Movie
Poyser
The Happy Valley
1987Movie
John Carberry
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987TV
DCC Charles Griswold
A Sort of Innocence
1986TV
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986Movie
Chorus
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
1986TV
George Abell
Yes, Prime Minister
1986TV
The Good Father
1985Movie
Leonard Scruby
In the Secret State
1985Movie
Guy Preger
Screen Two
1985TV
Guy Preger
Ellis Island
1984TV
Dr. Carl Travers
The Bill
1984TV
Champions
1984Movie
Richard Hussey
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1983Movie
Antonio
The Scarlet and the Black
1983Movie
Reinhard Beck
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983Movie
Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI Part 3
1983Movie
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Henry VI Part 2
1983Movie
John Hume / Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 1
1983Movie
Duke of Alencon
Man and Superman
1982Movie
Henry Straker
Smiley's People
1982TV
Peter Guillam
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981TV
Demosthenes
The Silence of the Sea
1980Movie
Werner Von Ebrennac
Lady Killers
1980TV
Edward Marshall-Hall KC, Edward Marshall-Hall
The Enigma Files
1980TV
David Stanley
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979Movie
Ratrick Marney
Coming Out
1979Movie
Gunnar Wedelman
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Patrick Marney
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978TV
Antonio
Accident
1978TV
Ian Shaw
Force 10 from Navarone
1978Movie
Schroeder
Strangers
1978TV
Sgt Briscoe
The Devil's Crown
1978TV
Richard Lionheart
The Medusa Touch
1978Movie
Duff
The Professionals
1977TV
Werner Dreisinger
Premiere
1977TV
Werner Von Ebrennac
Secret Army
1977TV
Paul Vercors
A Bridge Too Far
1977Movie
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
The Eagle Has Landed
1976Movie
Karl
Rogue Male
1976Movie
Interrogator
The Omen
1976Movie
Monk (uncredited)
Break In
1975Movie
Clarke
Conduct Unbecoming
1975Movie
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Wednesday Love
1975Movie
Bruce
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
1975Movie
Richard Lovell
Edward the Seventh
1975TV
Fritz
Vampyres
1974Movie
Playboy
Headmaster
1974Movie
Butley
1974Movie
Reg Nuttall
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974Movie
Thriller
1973TV
Richard Lovell
Crown Court
1972TV
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972Movie
Edward Seymour
New Scotland Yard
1972TV
DS Patten
Play for Today
1970TV
Russell, Bruce
The Image
1969Movie
The Artist
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Jason
Much Ado About Nothing
1967Movie
Claudio
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Viskovsky
The Silent Playground
1963Movie
Roger
The Scarlet Blade
1963Movie
Lt. Hawke
Coronation Street
1960TV
Ted Page
Bjorn of the Dead
Movie
Derek