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.
as Derek
as Old Mullins(3 eps)
as Andrew Norton
as Commissioner Keller
as Michael
as Keller
as Coroner
as Roy Phipps(2 eps)
as Ebenezer Alsop(6 eps)
as Bishop Parsons(1 ep)
as Sir Charles Harwood
as Leslie Kane(4 eps)
as The Duke
as Richard
as Christiaan Barnard
as Edward Baxendale(1 ep)
as Frank White
as Neurath
as Harold Penton(1 ep)
as Gellert Grindelwald
as Elder
as Lieut General Strathairn
as Cicero(6 eps)
as Dr. Andretti
as Emil Wetterstedt
as Archie Saunders
as Horace Greeley
as Anatoli Grushkov
as Lord Widgery
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
as Merlin(2 eps)
as Joe Brackley(2 eps)
as Lord Luthan
as Parson Staffer
as Richard Rampton QC
as Mr. Carruthers
as Solicitor(2 eps)
as Ben Kramer
as Oliver Mather
as Captain Keene
as Captain Keene(1 ep)
as Patrick
as Lange
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
as Nairn
as Venables
as Bolek
as Vereshagin
as Keith Grundy(1 ep)
as Officer (uncredited)(1 ep)
as Sam Campbell
as Commissioner
as Edward Grant(10 eps)
as Dieter Creutz
as Moody(1 ep)
as Smythe
as Duncan Scott(1 ep)
as Inquisitor
as Blank/German/Old Geezer
as Major Nairn
as Major Nairn
as Major Nairn
as Volmar
as Major Nairn(6 eps)
as Alex Ormrod(1 ep)
as Clitheroe
as Octave
as Sir Robert Eaton(1 ep)
as Friedrich Olbricht
as Clitheroe(1 ep)
as Col. Patrick Ansell(14 eps)
as Poyser
as John Carberry
as DCC Charles Griswold(3 eps)
as Chorus
as John Carberry(1 ep)
as George Abell(6 eps)
as Leonard Scruby
as Guy Preger
as Guy Preger(1 ep)
as Dr. Carl Travers(3 eps)
as Richard Hussey
as Antonio
as Reinhard Beck
as Duke of Buckingham
as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
as John Hume / Lieutenant
as Duke of Alencon
as Henry Straker
as Peter Guillam(3 eps)
as Demosthenes(4 eps)
as Werner Von Ebrennac
as Edward Marshall-Hall KC(1 ep)
as Edward Marshall-Hall(1 ep)
as David Stanley(1 ep)
as Ratrick Marney
as Gunnar Wedelman
as Patrick Marney(1 ep)
as Antonio(1 ep)
as Ian Shaw(1 ep)
as Schroeder
as Sgt Briscoe(2 eps)
as Richard Lionheart(5 eps)
as Duff
as Werner Dreisinger(1 ep)
as Werner Von Ebrennac(1 ep)
as Paul Vercors(1 ep)
as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
as Karl
as Interrogator
as Monk (uncredited)
as Clarke
as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
as Bruce
as Richard Lovell
as Fritz(5 eps)
as Playboy
as Reg Nuttall
as Richard Lovell(1 ep)
as Edward Seymour
as DS Patten(1 ep)
as Russell(1 ep)
as Bruce(1 ep)
as The Artist
as Jason(1 ep)
as Claudio
as Viskovsky(1 ep)
as Roger
as Lt. Hawke
as Ted Page(5 eps)