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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.

Bodies
as Old Mullins

The Gold Machine
as Andrew Norton

Intrigo: Samaria
as Commissioner Keller

Alien Overlords
as Michael

Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Keller

The Last Witness
as Coroner

Strike
as Roy Phipps

The Living and the Dead
as Ebenezer Alsop

Agatha Raisin
as Bishop Parsons

Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
as Sir Charles Harwood

Cuffs
as Leslie Kane

Mortdecai
as The Duke

Rom - Schlacht der Gladiatoren

The First Line
as Richard

Diana
as Christiaan Barnard

Crossing Lines
as Edward Baxendale

Quartet
as Frank White

Outpost: Black Sun
as Neurath

The Body Farm
as Harold Penton

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Gellert Grindelwald

Blood: The Last Vampire
as Elder

The Mark of Cain
as Lieut General Strathairn

Empire
as Cicero

Beyond the Sea
as Dr. Andretti
Double the Fist

The Return of the Dancing Master
as Emil Wetterstedt
The Crooked Man
as Archie Saunders

Gangs of New York
as Horace Greeley

Ultimate Force

The Sum of All Fears
as Anatoli Grushkov

Sunday
as Lord Widgery

The Musketeer
as Treville, Head of the Musketeers

The Mists of Avalon
as Merlin

Waking the Dead
as Joe Brackley

Proof of Life
as Lord Luthan

Battlefield Earth
as Parson Staffer

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as Mr. Carruthers

The Vice
as Solicitor

Apt Pupil
as Ben Kramer

30 Years to Life
as Oliver Mather

Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Captain Keene

Hornblower
as Captain Keene

Imogen's Face
as Patrick

Gunshy
as Lange

Heat of the Sun

Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Bedford Admiral Kelly

Sharpe: The Legend
as Nairn

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Venables

The Island on Bird Street
as Bolek

The Saint
as Vereshagin

Midsomer Murders
as Keith Grundy

The Practice
as Officer (uncredited)

The Fix
as Sam Campbell

No Bananas
as Edward Grant

Silent Witness

The Infiltrator
as Dieter Creutz

Oliver's Travels
as Moody

Braveheart
as Smythe

Hamish Macbeth
as Duncan Scott

Nostradamus
as Inquisitor