Michael Byrne

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Michael Byrne was a British actor sometimes cast as Nazis 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 was 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...

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Coronation StreetSeries • 1960Midsomer MurdersSeries • 1997Silent WitnessSeries • 1996The PracticeSeries • 1997Play for TodaySeries • 1970Crown CourtSeries • 1972A Touch of FrostSeries • 1992The BillSeries • 1984BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965Screen TwoSeries • 1985Tales of the UnexpectedSeries • 1979Waking the DeadSeries • 2001Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1Movie • 2010The ProfessionalsSeries • 1977ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries • 1969BraveheartMovie • 1995StrikeSeries • 2017Crossing LinesSeries • 2013Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeMovie • 1989The BBC Television ShakespeareSeries • 1978BodiesSeries • 2023The Ruth Rendell MysteriesSeries • 1987New Scotland YardSeries • 1972ThrillerSeries • 1973