Michael Byrne



First NameMichael
Last NameByrne
Age68
Date of BirthNovember 7, 1943
BirthplaceLondon, England
Height5' 9½" (177 cm)
BuildAverage
Hair ColorGrey
Star SignScorpio
EthnicityWhite
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor
Occupation CategoryActor
Claim to FameBuster

Michael Byrne (born 7 November 1943) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television. He has often been cast in Nazi military roles such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in the BBC radio dramatisation of the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris. 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.


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Filmography

Selected Michael Byrne film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

2008
Grandpa Norman Carter

2007
Lieut General Strathairn

2005
Cicero

2004
Dr. Andretti

2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
Emil Wetterstedt

2003
Archie Saunders

2002
Horace Greeley

2002
Anatoli Grushkov

2002
Sunday
Lord Widgery

2001
Treville, Head of the Musketeers

2000
Lord Luthan

1999
The Vice
Solicitor

1999
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Mr. Carruthers

1998
Ben Kramer

1998
Lange

1998
Police Comm. Ronald Burkitt

1998
Capt. Keene

1997
The Island on Bird Street
Bolek

1997
Vereshagin, Tretiak's Aide

1997
Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford

1997
The Pale Horse
Venables

1996
Commissioner

1996
Father Donal Kennedy

1995
Smythe

1995
Oliver's Travels
Moody

1995
Creutz

1994
Inquisitor

1994
Nairn

1994
Sharpe's Enemy
Nairn

1994
Nairn

1992
Between the Lines
MI5 Director 

1991
The Orchid House
Father Toussaint

1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Gen. Olbricht

1988
Poyser

1987
The Happy Valley
John Carberry

1987
DCC Charles Griswold

1986
Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy
George Abell

1985
Leonard Scruby

1984
Richard Hussey

1984
Ellis Island
Dr. Carl Travers

1984
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus

1983
Reinhard Beck

1982
Peter Guillam

1978
Maj. Schroeder

1978
Duff

1978
Strangers
Sgt. Briscoe

1977
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur

1977
Soviet Military Officer

1976
Rogue Male
Interrogator

1975
2nd Lt. Toby Strang

1975
Playboy

1975
Edward the King
Fritz

1974
Reg Nuttall

1972
Edward Seymour

1972
Crown Court
Robert Kimmins

1970
Play for Today
Bruce 

1967
The Image
The Artist

1964
Lt. Hawke

1960
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