
Michael Byrne
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 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.136 |
Birthday | 1943-11-07 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Майкл Бирн, |

1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7.849/10273
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

2009

Blood: The Last Vampire
5.9/379
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human fath...
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1997

The Saint
6.106/1124
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...
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2002

Gangs of New York
7.322/6698
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murder...
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2000

Battlefield Earth
3.286/859
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, th...
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1981

The Search for Alexander the Great
0/0
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
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1963

The Scarlet Blade
5.5/18
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love trian...
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2001

The Musketeer
5.3/224
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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2004

Beyond the Sea
6.3/169
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the t...
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1976

The Eagle Has Landed
6.6/337
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...
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1974

Vampyres
6/144
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
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1978

The Medusa Touch
6.8/180
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He re...
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1988

Buster
5.6/82
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact...
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1995

The Infiltrator
5.9/5
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri...
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1992

Running Late
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Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his...
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1997

The Island on Bird Street
7.1/58
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. T...
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1985

In the Secret State
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A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own...
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1985

The Good Father
5.7/13
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so...
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1978

Force 10 from Navarone
6.208/307
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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1998

Hornblower: The Even Chance
7.464/42
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval car...
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1994

Sharpe's Company
6.8/31
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...
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Sharpe's Company

2012

Outpost: Black Sun
5/107
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie...
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Outpost: Black Sun

1976

Rogue Male
6.5/20
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...
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Rogue Male

1982

Man and Superman
0/0
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
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1974

Butley
6.3/9
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2013

Diana
5.6/486
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surg...
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1969

The Image
4.7/10
An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
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2015

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
6.1/24
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.
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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter

1983

Henry VI Part 3
7/1
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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1983

The Tragedy of Richard III
6/1
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duk...
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1983

Henry VI Part 2
7/1
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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1983

Henry VI Part 1
7.5/2
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2015

Mortdecai
5.5/2649
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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Mortdecai

1974

Ms or Jill and Jack
0/0
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
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Ms or Jill and Jack

1991

Murderous Decisions
0/0
A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the caree...
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1963

The Silent Playground
4.7/3
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
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2022

The Gold Machine
5/1
Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their journ...
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1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler
6/23
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German governm...
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1967

Much Ado About Nothing
5.5/2
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in w...
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Much Ado About Nothing

1974

Headmaster
0/0
Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40 years...
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Headmaster

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies
6.363/3125
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...
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1998

30 Years to Life
5/2
In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.
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30 Years to Life

1999

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
7.2/8
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had...
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1995

Braveheart
7.9/10275
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...
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Braveheart

1994

A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
2/1
A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection Dirty Faxes, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged wri...
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1995

The Absence of War
0/0
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones batt...
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The Absence of War

1998

Imogen's Face
0/0
The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.
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1976

The Omen
7.407/2162
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t kno...
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1994

Hildegard
0/0
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Age...
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Hildegard

1997

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
5.6/11
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reput...
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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse

1997

Sharpe: The Legend
6/4
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...
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Sharpe: The Legend

1975

Break In
0/0
Written by Willy Russell, Break In tells the story of three boys who break in to their school during the holidays to retrieve a confiscated football.
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Break In

2002

The Sum of All Fears
6.356/1742
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...
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The Sum of All Fears

1977

A Bridge Too Far
7.2/831
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
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A Bridge Too Far

1975

If It's a Man – Hang Up!
8/2
A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.
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If It's a Man – Hang Up!

2007

The Mark of Cain
5.4/35
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detaine...
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The Mark of Cain

1983

The Scarlet and the Black
7/57
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His...
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The Scarlet and the Black

2012

Quartet
6.478/367
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they t...
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Quartet

1972

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
5.8/17
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back ov...
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

2003

The Crooked Man
0/0
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence capt...
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The Crooked Man

2004

The Return of the Dancing Master
4.8/8
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town...
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The Return of the Dancing Master

1984

Champions
6.8/14
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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Champions

2002

Sunday
7.4/8
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Govern...
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Sunday

2018

Intrigo: Death of an Author
5.4/55
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
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Intrigo: Death of an Author

1987

The Happy Valley
6.8/4
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder....
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The Happy Valley

2014

The First Line
6/3
Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in fron...
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The First Line

2018

The Last Witness
6/82
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many yea...
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The Last Witness

1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
2/1
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1997

The Fix
4.5/2
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jai...
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The Fix

2000

Proof of Life
6.1/802
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South Ame...
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Proof of Life

1975

Wednesday Love
0/0
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
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Wednesday Love

2018

Alien Overlords
4/12
A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
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Alien Overlords

1979

Coming Out
5.7/3
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't c...
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Coming Out

1994

Nostradamus
5.724/68
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...
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Nostradamus

1975

Conduct Unbecoming
6.2/20
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow...
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Conduct Unbecoming

1998

Apt Pupil
6.5/648
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...
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Apt Pupil

1983

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
6.3/3
Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered J...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1998

Gunshy
5.2/19
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved...
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Gunshy

2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.744/19309
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

1994

Sharpe's Enemy
6.9/29
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English o...
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Sharpe's Enemy

1994

Sharpe's Honour
6.6/27
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out...
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Sharpe's Honour

1980

The Silence of the Sea
0/0
In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and...
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The Silence of the Sea

2019

Intrigo: Samaria
5.5/40
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters t...
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