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Michael Byrne (born 7 November 1943) is a British actor known for his roles in the National Theatre, Hollywood films, and television shows.

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Michael Byrne
Born	(1943-11-07) 7 November 1943 (age 78) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–present

Early life

Byrne was born in London, England, to Helen Byrne of Kilkenny, Ireland, a single parent.

Life and career

Byrne is a long-established stage actor, having joined the National Theatre in 1964 and appearing in many seasons since. He has also appeared on stage throughout the world. He has numerous theatre credits to his name including: Roberto Miranda in Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court, Maskwell in The Double Dealer and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre, Reg in Butley at The Criterion, and also The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Romeo and Juliet, Mayor of Zalamea, All My Sons, Lulu, Faith Healer, Duchess of Malfi, A Slight Ache, and Molly Sweeney amongst many others.

During his career he has played many German military 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 and General Olbricht in The Plot to Kill Hitler. He was also the SS interrogator in Rogue Male. Byrne appeared as a Jewish concentration camp survivor who is instrumental in the capture of a Nazi war criminal (played by Sir 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, Butley, A Bridge Too Far, The Medusa Touch, The Saint, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Good Father, The Sum of All Fears, Gangs of New York, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Mortdecai.

On television, he has appeared in Thriller, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals (TV Series), The Devil's Crown, Smiley's People, Yes, Prime Minister, Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy, Between The Lines, Sharpe, Hornblower, A Touch of Frost, (The episode "Quarry", in which he played the father of Allie Byrne, his real-life daughter), Agatha Raisin (Hell’s Bells), Midsomer Murders (The Ghost of Causton Abbey), The Mists of Avalon, Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Honest, Hamish Macbeth, and Casualty.

From April 2008 to January 2010, Byrne 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 played Alfred Maxwell in BBC's Casualty, a terminally ill man with motor neuron disease and his friendship with clinical lead Connie Beauchamp.

He plays Bruce Titchener in The Archers.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1963	The Scarlet Blade	Lt. Hawke
	The Silent Playground	Roger
1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
1974	Butley	Reg Nuttall
	Vampyres	Playboy
1975	Conduct Unbecoming	2nd Lt. Toby Strang
1976	The Omen	Monk
	The Eagle Has Landed	Karl
1977	A Bridge Too Far	Giles Vandeleur
	Telefon	Soviet Military Officer
1978	The Medusa Touch	Sgt. Duff
	Force 10 from Navarone	Maj. Schroeder
1984	Champions	Richard Hussey
1985	The Good Father	Leonard Scruby
1986	Oedipus the King	Chorus
1988	Saracen	Colonel Patrick Ansell
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Ernst Vogel
1994	Nostradamus	Inquisitor
1994	Sharpe	Major Nairn
1995	Braveheart	Smythe
1997	The Saint	Yuri Vereshagin
	The Island on Bird Street	Bolek
	Tomorrow Never Dies	Admiral Kelly
1998	Gunshy	Lange
	This Is My Father	Michael Finnegan
	Apt Pupil	Ben Kramer
	Hornblower, The Even Chance	Captain Keene
1999	Mauá: The Emperor and the King	Richard Carruthers
2000	Battlefield Earth	Parson Staffer
	Proof of Life	Lord Luthan
2001	The Musketeer	Treville
2002	The Sum of All Fears	Anatoli Grushkov
	Gangs of New York	Horace Greeley
	Sunday	Lord Widgery
2004	Beyond the Sea	Dr. Andretti
2009	Blood: The Last Vampire	Elder
2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Gellert Grindelwald
2012	Outpost: Black Sun	Neurath
	Quartet	Frank White
2013	Diana	Christiaan Barnard
2014	The First Line	Richard
2015	Mortdecai	The Duke
2018	The Last Witness	Coroner
	Intrigo: Death of an Author	Keller
TBA	Sins of the Father	Sebastian

References

External links

• Michael Byrne at IMDb

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[es] Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne (nacido el 7 de noviembre de 1943) es un actor inglés conocido por sus papeles en cine y televisión.

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[ru] Бирн, Майкл

Майкл Бирн (англ. Michael Byrne, род. 7 ноября 1943, Лондон) — английский актёр. Отец актрисы Элли Бирн. Из-за характерной внешности часто исполнял роли нацистских офицеров.

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