
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 Andrew Norton

as Commissioner Keller

as Michael

as Keller

as Coroner

as Sir Charles Harwood

as The Duke

as Richard

as Christiaan Barnard

as Frank White

as Neurath

as Gellert Grindelwald

as Elder

as Lieut General Strathairn

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 Lord Luthan

as Parson Staffer

as Richard Rampton QC

as Mr. Carruthers

as Ben Kramer

as Oliver Mather

as Captain Keene

as Patrick

as Lange

as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly

as Nairn

as Venables

as Bolek

as Vereshagin

as Sam Campbell

as Commissioner

as Dieter Creutz

as Smythe

as Inquisitor

as Blank/German/Old Geezer

as Major Nairn

as Major Nairn

as Major Nairn

as Volmar

as Clitheroe

as Octave

as Friedrich Olbricht

as Poyser

as John Carberry

as Chorus

as Leonard Scruby

as Guy Preger

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 Werner Von Ebrennac

as Ratrick Marney

as Gunnar Wedelman

as Schroeder

as Duff

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 Playboy

as Reg Nuttall

as Edward Seymour

as The Artist

as Claudio

as Roger

as Lt. Hawke

as Derek