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 Naziss 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 Wallaces 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 Devils Crown,Smileys 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 Platts 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.
Demosthenes
Ταινία 1981
Playboy
Ταινία 1974
Duff
Ταινία 1978
Dieter Creutz
Ταινία 1995
Clitheroe
Ταινία 1992
Bolek
Ταινία 1997
Guy Preger
Ταινία 1985
Neurath
Ταινία 2012
Henry Straker
Ταινία 1982
Reg Nuttall
Ταινία 1974
The Artist
Ταινία 1969
Sir Charles Harwood
Ταινία 2015
Duke of Alencon
Ταινία 1983
John Hume / Lieutenant
Ταινία 1983
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Ταινία 1983
Duke of Buckingham
Ταινία 1983
Ταινία 1974
Octave
Ταινία 1991
Roger
Ταινία 1963
Andrew Norton
Ταινία 2022
Claudio
Ταινία 1967
Ταινία 1974
Oliver Mather
Ταινία 1998
Mr. Carruthers
Ταινία 1999
Blank/German/Old Geezer
Ταινία 1994
Bryden Thomas
Ταινία 1995
Patrick
Ταινία 1998
Monk (uncredited)
Ταινία 1976
Volmar
Ταινία 1994
Venables
Ταινία 1997
Clarke
Ταινία 1975
Richard Lovell
Ταινία 1975
Archie Saunders
Ταινία 2003
Emil Wetterstedt
Ταινία 2004
Keller
Ταινία 2018
Richard
Ταινία 2014
Chorus
Ταινία 1986
Bruce
Ταινία 1975
Michael
Ταινία 2018
Gunnar Wedelman
Ταινία 1979
Inquisitor
Ταινία 1994
Antonio
Ταινία 1983
Lange
Ταινία 1998
Major Nairn
Ταινία 1994
Werner Von Ebrennac
Ταινία 1980
Commissioner Keller
Ταινία 2019
Richard Lovell
Tv 1973
Captain Keene
Tv 1998
Major Nairn
Tv 1993
Tv 2002
Tv 2004
Tv 1984
Patrick Marney
Tv 1979
Alex Ormrod
Tv 1992
Tv 1996
Tv 1992
Officer (uncredited)
Tv 1997
Tv 1972
Joe Brackley
Tv 2001
David Stanley
Tv 1980
Cicero
Tv 2005
Tv 1986
Tv 1970
Tv 1986
Peter Guillam
Tv 1982
Tv 1974
Tv 1999
Tv 1978
Tv 1998
DCC Charles Griswold
Tv 1987
Paul Vercors
Tv 1977
Edward Baxendale
Tv 2013
Old Mullins
Tv 2023
Ebenezer Alsop
Tv 2016
Trevor's Father
Tv 1975
George Abell
Tv 1986
Ted Page
Tv 1960
Keith Grundy
Tv 1997
Russell
Tv 1970
Bruce
Tv 1970
Edward Marshall-Hall KC
Tv 1980
Edward Marshall-Hall
Tv 1980
Bishop Parsons
Tv 2016
Duncan Scott
Tv 1995
Werner Dreisinger
Tv 1977