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 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 Bridg...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Braveheart
1995
Mortdecai
2015
The Island on Bird Street
1997
30 Years to Life
1998
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999
The Silent Playground
1963
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Gangs of New York
2002
Proof of Life
2000
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Medusa Touch
1978
The Omen
1976
Diana
2013
The Good Father
1985
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Quartet
2012
Conduct Unbecoming
1975
The Saint
1997
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
The Last Witness
2018
Henry VI Part 2
1983
Apt Pupil
1998
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009
The Mark of Cain
2007
Henry VI Part 1
1983
Beyond the Sea
2004
Battlefield Earth
2000
Nostradamus
1994
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
Henry VI Part 3
1983
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
The Scarlet Blade
1963