Michael Byrne
Acting
- Lahir:
- 1943-11-07
- Meninggal:
- 2026-06-20
- Tempat lahir:
- London, England, UK
Biografi
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.
Dikenal dari
Filmografi
Bodies
The Gold Machine
Intrigo: Samaria
Alien Overlords
Intrigo: Death of an Author
The Last Witness
Strike
The Living and the Dead
Agatha Raisin
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Cuffs
Mortdecai
Πρόμαχος
Diana
Crossing Lines
Quartet
Outpost: Black Sun
The Body Farm
Harry Potter dan Relikui Kematian: Bagian 1
Blood: The Last Vampire
The Mark of Cain
Empire
Beyond the Sea
Double the Fist
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers
The Crooked Man
Gangs of New York
Ultimate Force
The Sum of All Fears
Sunday
The Musketeer
The Mists of Avalon
Waking the Dead
Proof of Life
Battlefield Earth
The Holocaust on Trial
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
The Vice
Apt Pupil
30 Years to Life
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Hornblower
Imogen's Face
Gunshy
Heat of the Sun
Tomorrow Never Dies
Sharpe: The Legend
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
The Island on Bird Street
The Saint
Midsomer Murders
The Practice
The Fix
Deadly Voyage
No Bananas
Silent Witness
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
A Touch of Frost
Running Late
Between the Lines
Mörderische Entscheidung
The Chief
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Screen One
Saracen
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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
The Scarlet and the Black
The Tragedy of Richard III
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 1
Man and Superman
Smiley's People
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
Force 10 from Navarone
Strangers
The Devil's Crown
The Medusa Touch
The Professionals
Premiere
Secret Army
A Bridge Too Far
The Eagle Has Landed
Rogue Male
The Omen
Break In
Conduct Unbecoming
Wednesday Love
If It's a Man... Hang Up!
Edward the Seventh
Vampyres
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