Birth Day: 1943-11-07
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Byrne was born in London, England. He has sometimes been cast in Nazimilitary roles 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 is 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, he has appeared 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. It is not known whether he will return to the show. 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. Father of actress Allie Byrne.
Credits
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As Andrew Norton
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As Keller
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As Coroner
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As Michael
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As The Duke
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As Sir Charles Harwood
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As Richard
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As Christiaan Barnard
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As Frank White
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As Neurath
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As Gellert Grindelwald
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As Elder
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As Lieut General Strathairn
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As Emil Wetterstedt
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As Dr. Andretti
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As Archie Saunders
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As Lord Widgery
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As Horace Greeley
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As Anatoli Grushkov
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As Treville, Head of the Musketeers
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As Parson Staffer
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As Lord Luthan
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As Mr. Carruthers
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As Captain Keene
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As Oliver Mather
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As Lange
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As Ben Kramer
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As Patrick
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As Vereshagin
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As Venables
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As Sam Campbell
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As Bolek
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As Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
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As Nairn
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As Smythe
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As Bryden Thomas
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As Dieter Creutz
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As Blank/German/Old Geezer
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As Major Nairn
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As Inquisitor
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As Volmar
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As Major Nairn
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As Major Nairn
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As Clitheroe
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As Octave
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As Friedrich Olbricht
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As Vogel
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As Poyser
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As John Carberry
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As Chorus
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As Leonard Scruby
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As Guy Preger
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As Richard Hussey
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As John Hume / Lieutenant
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As Duke of Alencon
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As Antonio
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As Duke of Buckingham
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As Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
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As Reinhard Beck
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As Henry Straker
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As Demosthenes
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As Gunnar Wedelman
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As Duff
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As Schroeder
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As Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
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As Karl
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As Interrogator
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As Monk (uncredited)
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As Richard Lovell
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As Bruce
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As 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
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As Reg Nuttall
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As Playboy
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As Edward Seymour
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As The Artist
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As Claudio
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As Roger
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As Lt. Hawke