Michael Byrne
Birthday: 1943-11-07 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKByrne 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.
Film
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Role
jouer Coroner
jouer Keller
jouer Michael
jouer Christian Barnard
jouer Neurath
jouer Elder
jouer Cicero
jouer Dr. Andretti
jouer Merlin
jouer Ben Kramer
jouer Captain Keene
jouer Bolek
jouer Venables
jouer Vereshagin, Tretiak's Aide
jouer Nairn
jouer Friedrich Olbricht
jouer Col. Patrick Ansell
jouer Vogel
jouer Poyser
jouer Chorus
jouer Leonard Scruby
jouer Antonio
jouer Duke of Alencon
jouer Duke of Buckingham
jouer John Hume / Lieutenant
jouer Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
jouer Reinhard Beck