Michael Byrne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-11-07 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Michael Byrne

Biography

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 i...

Acting

1997

The Saint

as Vereshagin

2002

Gangs of New York

as Horace Greeley

2000

Battlefield Earth

as Parson Staffer

1963

The Scarlet Blade

as Lt. Hawke

2001

The Musketeer

as Treville, Head of the Musketeers

2004

Beyond the Sea

as Dr. Andretti

1974

Vampyres

as Playboy

1978

1988

Buster

as Poyser

1995

The Infiltrator

as Dieter Creutz

1992

Running Late

as Clitheroe

1985

In the Secret State

as Guy Preger

1985

The Good Father

as Leonard Scruby

1978

1998

1994

Sharpe's Company

as Major Nairn

2012

1976

Rogue Male

as Interrogator

1982

Man and Superman

as Henry Straker

1974

Butley

as Reg Nuttall

2013

Diana

as Christiaan Barnard

1969

The Image

as The Artist

2015

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter

as Sir Charles Harwood

1983

Henry VI Part 3

as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son

1983

The Tragedy of Richard III

as Duke of Buckingham

1983

Henry VI Part 2

as John Hume / Lieutenant

1983

Henry VI Part 1

as Duke of Alencon

2015

Mortdecai

as The Duke

1991

2022

The Gold Machine

as Andrew Norton

1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Friedrich Olbricht

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly

1998

30 Years to Life

as Oliver Mather

1999

1995

Braveheart

as Smythe

1994

A Few Short Journeys of the Heart

as Blank/German/Old Geezer

1995

The Absence of War

as Bryden Thomas

1998

Imogen's Face

as Patrick

1976

The Omen

as Monk (uncredited)

1994

Hildegard

as Volmar

1997

1975

Break In

as Clarke

2002

The Sum of All Fears

as Anatoli Grushkov

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur

1975

2007

The Mark of Cain

as Lieut General Strathairn

1983

2012

Quartet

as Frank White

1972

2003

The Crooked Man

as Archie Saunders

2004

1984

Champions

as Richard Hussey

2002

Sunday

as Lord Widgery

1987

The Happy Valley

as John Carberry

2014

The First Line

as Richard

2018

1997

The Fix

as Sam Campbell

2000

Proof of Life

as Lord Luthan

1975

2018

Alien Overlords

as Michael

1979

Coming Out

as Gunnar Wedelman

1994

Nostradamus

as Inquisitor

1975

Conduct Unbecoming

as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang

1998

Apt Pupil

as Ben Kramer

1998

Gunshy

as Lange

1994

Sharpe's Enemy

as Major Nairn

1994

Sharpe's Honour

as Major Nairn

1980

The Silence of the Sea

as Werner Von Ebrennac

2019

Intrigo: Samaria

as Commissioner Keller

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