Michael Byrne
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1943-11-07
- Décès:
- 2026-06-20
- Lieu de naissance:
- London, England, UK
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
Bodies
The Gold Machine
Intrigo : Samaria
Alien Overlords
Intrigo : Mort d'un auteur
The Last Witness
C.B. Strike
The Living and the Dead
Agatha Raisin
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Cuffs
Charlie Mortdecai
Πρόμαχος
Diana
Crossing Lines
Quartet
Outpost : Black Sun
The Body Farm
Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort - 1ère partie
Blood : The Last Vampire
La Bataille de Bassora
Empire
Beyond the Sea
Double the Fist
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers
The Crooked Man
Gangs of New York
Ultimate Force
La Somme de toutes les peurs
Sunday
D'Artagnan
Les Brumes d'Avalon
Meurtres en sommeil
L'Échange
Battlefield Earth : Terre, champ de bataille
The Holocaust on Trial
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
The Vice
Un élève doué
30 Years to Life
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Hornblower
Imogen's Face
Gunshy
Heat of the Sun
Demain ne meurt jamais
Sharpe: The Legend
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
L'Étoile de Robinson
Le Saint
Inspecteur Barnaby
The Practice : Bobby Donnell & Associés
The Fix
Deadly Voyage
No Bananas
Affaires non classées
The Infiltrator
Oliver's Travels
Braveheart
Hamish Macbeth
Nostradamus
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Sharpe's Honour
Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Company
Hildegard
Sharpe
Inspecteur Frost
Running Late
Between the Lines
Mörderische Entscheidung
The Chief
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Screen One
Saracen
Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade
Buster
The Happy Valley
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
A Sort of Innocence
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Yes, Prime Minister
The Good Father
In the Secret State
Screen Two
Ellis Island
The Bill
Champions
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
La Pourpre et le noir
The Tragedy of Richard III
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 1
Man and Superman
Les Gens 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
Bizarre, bizarre
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Accident
L'ouragan vient de Navarone
Strangers
La couronne du diable
La Grande Menace
Les Professionnels
Premiere
Secret Army
Un pont trop loin
L'aigle s'est envolé
Rogue Male
La Malédiction
Break In
Conduct Unbecoming
Wednesday Love
If It's a Man... Hang Up!
Edward the Seventh
Vampyres
Headmaster
Butley
Ms or Jill and Jack
Angoisse
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