Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 12010
As Gellert Grindelwald
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Michael Byrne
Born
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.
Filmography (84)
Braveheart1995
As Smythe
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989
As Vogel
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Tomorrow Never Dies1997
As HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Gangs of New York2002
As Horace Greeley
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Sum of All Fears2002
As Anatoli Grushkov
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Mortdecai2015
As The Duke
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Omen1976
As Monk (uncredited)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
A Bridge Too Far1977
As Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Saint1997
As Vereshagin
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Musketeer2001
As Treville, Head of the Musketeers
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Battlefield Earth2000
As Parson Staffer
TMDb 3.3 / 10
The Eagle Has Landed1976
As Karl
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Proof of Life2000
As Lord Luthan
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Force 10 from Navarone1978
As Schroeder
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Apt Pupil1998
As Ben Kramer
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Blood: The Last Vampire2009
As Elder
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Diana2013
As Christiaan Barnard
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Quartet2012
As Frank White
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Beyond the Sea2004
As Dr. Andretti
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Scarlet and the Black1983
As Reinhard Beck
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Medusa Touch1978
As Duff
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Outpost: Black Sun2012
As Neurath
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The First Line2014
As Richard
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Intrigo: Samaria2019
As Commissioner Keller
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Gunshy1998
As Lange
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Infiltrator1995
As Dieter Creutz
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Scarlet Blade1963
As Lt. Hawke
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Vampyres1974
As Playboy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Buster1988
As Poyser
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Henry VIII and His Six Wives1972
As Edward Seymour
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Sharpe's Enemy1994
As Major Nairn
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Plot to Kill Hitler1990
As Friedrich Olbricht
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Intrigo: Death of an Author2018
As Keller
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Nostradamus1994
As Inquisitor
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Last Witness2018
As Coroner
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Good Father1985
As Leonard Scruby
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Island on Bird Street1997
As Bolek
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse1997
As Venables
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King1986
As Chorus
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Henry VI Part 21983
As John Hume / Lieutenant
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Wednesday Love1975
As Bruce
30 Years to Life1998
As Oliver Mather
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Henry VI Part 11983
As Duke of Alencon
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Mark of Cain2007
As Lieut General Strathairn
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Hornblower: The Even Chance1998
As Captain Keene
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Hildegard1994
As Volmar
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Sharpe's Honour1994
As Major Nairn
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Image1969
As The Artist
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Conduct Unbecoming1975
As 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Tragedy of Richard III1983
As Duke of Buckingham
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Alien Overlords2018
As Michael
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Happy Valley1987
As John Carberry
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Rogue Male1976
As Interrogator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Murderous Decisions
Murderous Decisions1991
As Octave
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Champions1984
As Richard Hussey
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei1999
As Mr. Carruthers
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Sharpe: The Legend1997
As Nairn
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Fix1997
As Sam Campbell
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Sharpe's Company1994
As Major Nairn
TMDb 6.7 / 10
In the Secret State1985
As Guy Preger
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter2015
As Sir Charles Harwood
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Much Ado About Nothing1967
As Claudio
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Return of the Dancing Master2004
As Emil Wetterstedt
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Ms or Jill and Jack
Ms or Jill and Jack1974
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Henry VI Part 31983
As Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter1979
As Ratrick Marney
Running Late1992
As Clitheroe
TMDb 9.0 / 10
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart1994
As Blank/German/Old Geezer
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Coming Out1979
As Gunnar Wedelman
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Gold Machine2022
As Andrew Norton
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Two Gentlemen of Verona1983
As Antonio
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Imogen's Face1998
As Patrick
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Man and Superman1982
As Henry Straker
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Butley1974
As Reg Nuttall
TMDb 6.7 / 10
If It's a Man – Hang Up!
If It's a Man – Hang Up!1975
As Richard Lovell
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Sunday2002
As Lord Widgery
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Silence of the Sea1980
As Werner Von Ebrennac
The Holocaust on Trial2000
As Richard Rampton QC
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Silent Playground1963
As Roger
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Crooked Man2003
As Archie Saunders
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Bjorn of the Dead
Bjorn of the DeadRelease date TBA
As Derek
Break In1975
As Clarke
Headmaster1974
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb