Michael Byrne
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1943-11-07
- Fallecimiento:
- 2026-06-20
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- London, England, UK
Biografía
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.
Conocido por
Filmografía
Cadáveres
The Gold Machine
Intrigo: Samaria
Alien Overlords
Intrigo: muerte de un autor
El último testigo
Cormoran Strike (C.B. Strike)
The Living and the Dead
Agatha Raisin
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Cuffs
Mortdecai
Πρόμαχος
Diana
Crossing Lines
El cuarteto
Outpost: Black Sun
The Body Farm
Harry Potter y las Reliquias de la Muerte - Parte 1
Blood: El último vampiro
La marca de Caín
Imperio
Beyond the Sea
Double the Fist
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers
The Crooked Man
Gangs of New York
Ultimate Force
Pánico nuclear
Sunday
El mosquetero
Las brumas de Avalon
Caso cerrado
Prueba de vida
Campo de batalla: La Tierra
The Holocaust on Trial
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
The Vice
Verano de corrupción
30 Years to Life
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Hornblower
Imogen's Face
Un tipo peligroso
Heat of the Sun
El mañana nunca muere
Sharpe: The Legend
Agatha Christie: el misterio de Pale Horse
La isla de Bird Street
El santo
Los asesinatos de Midsomer
El abogado
The Fix
Deadly Voyage
No Bananas
Testigo mudo
El infiltrado
Oliver's Travels
Braveheart
Hamish Macbeth
Nostradamus
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Sharpe's Honour
Enemigo de Sharpe
La compañia de Sharpe
Hildegard
Sharpe
A Touch of Frost
Running Late
Between the Lines
Mörderische Entscheidung
The Chief
Complot para matar a Hitler
Screen One
Saracen
Indiana Jones y la última cruzada
Buster: el robo del siglo
The Happy Valley
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
A Sort of Innocence
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Sí, Primer Ministro
El buen padre
In the Secret State
Screen Two
La isla de Ellis
The Bill
Reto al destino
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Escarlata y negro
The Tragedy of Richard III
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 1
Man and Superman
Los hombres de Smiley
The Search for Alexander the Great
The Silence of the Sea
Lady Killers
The Enigma Files
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Coming Out
Tales of the Unexpected
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Accident
Fuerza 10 de Navarone
Strangers
The Devil's Crown
Alarma, catástrofe
The Professionals
Premiere
Secret Army
Un puente lejano
Ha llegado el águila
Rogue Male
La profecía
Break In
Culpable sin rostro
Wednesday Love
If It's a Man... Hang Up!
Edward the Seventh
Las Hijas de Drácula
Headmaster
Butley
Ms or Jill and Jack
Thriller
Crown Court
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
New Scotland Yard
Play for Today
The Image
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing
BBC Play of the Month
The Silent Playground
The Scarlet Blade
Coronation Street
Bjorn of the Dead