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 Naziss sinister realityshifting 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 Wallaces 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 ZCars Secret Army Tales of the Unexpected The Professionals The Devils CrownSmileys 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 Platts long lost father and the exlover 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