Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 07, 1943
Died
Jun 20, 2026
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
139 titles
Michael Byrne
Biography
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
Filmography
Bodies
Old Mullins
The Gold Machine
Andrew Norton
Intrigo: Samaria
Commissioner Keller
Alien Overlords
Michael
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Keller
The Last Witness
Coroner
Strike
Roy Phipps
The Living and the Dead
Ebenezer Alsop
Agatha Raisin
Bishop Parsons
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Sir Charles Harwood
Cuffs
Leslie Kane
Mortdecai
The Duke
Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren
The First Line
Richard
Diana
Christiaan Barnard
Crossing Lines
Edward Baxendale
Quartet
Frank White
Outpost: Black Sun
Neurath
The Body Farm
Harold Penton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Gellert Grindelwald
Blood: The Last Vampire
Elder
The Mark of Cain
Lieut General Strathairn
Empire
Cicero
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Stunt Double
Beyond the Sea
Dr. Andretti
Double the Fist
The Return of the Dancing Master
Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
Archie Saunders
Gangs of New York
Horace Greeley
Ultimate Force
The Sum of All Fears
Anatoli Grushkov
Sunday
Lord Widgery
The Musketeer
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
The Mists of Avalon
Merlin
Waking the Dead
Joe Brackley
Proof of Life
Lord Luthan
Battlefield Earth
Parson Staffer
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Mr. Carruthers
The Vice
Solicitor
Apt Pupil
Ben Kramer
30 Years to Life
Oliver Mather
Hornblower
Captain Keene
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Captain Keene
Imogen's Face
Patrick
Gunshy
Lange
Heat of the Sun
Tomorrow Never Dies
HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
Sharpe: The Legend
Nairn
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Venables
The Island on Bird Street
Bolek