Michael Byrne
出生 : 1943-11-07, London, England, UK
略歴
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.
Andrew Norton
Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their journeys flip between continents and centuries to produce an original mediation – part documentary, part fiction – on fate, family and the search for Eldorado.
Michael
A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
Keller
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Coroner
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
Sir Charles Harwood
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investigate claims that her house is haunted.
The Duke
うさんくさいちょびヒゲをたくわえたうんちく好きな美術商チャーリー・モルデカイは、イギリスの諜報機関MI5に依頼されたゴヤの名画の捜索に乗り出す。屈強な用心棒ジョックと共に盗まれた名画の行方を追うが、その絵にはとんでもない財宝の秘密が隠されていることがわかり、マフィアや国際テロリストも絡む大争奪戦となる。
Richard
Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love.
Christian Barnard
1995年、ダイアナが夫のチャールズ皇太子と別居してからすでに3年の月日が過ぎようとしていた。ある日、彼女の良き友であり、治療師でもあるウーナの夫が倒れたと連絡が入り、ダイアナは急いで病院に駆け付ける。そこで彼女は、優秀な心臓外科医ハスナットと出会う。
Frank White
第一線を退いた音楽家たちが生活している「ビーチャム・ハウス」では、経営難のホーム存続を懸けてコンサートの準備に追われていた。そこで余生を過ごすレジー（トム・コートネイ）、シシー（ポーリーン・コリンズ）、ウィルフ（ビリー・コノリー）たちのもとに、かつてのカルテット仲間だったものの確執を残して去っていったプリマドンナのジーン（マギー・スミス）が入居する。コンサートを控えたメンバーは、疎遠だった彼女との再会に当惑するが……。
Neurath
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
Gellert Grindelwald
物語はハリー、ロン、ハーマイオニーに課せられた使命であるヴォルデモート抹殺の鍵を握る“分霊箱”を見つけ出すところから始まる。今や守ってくれる人も、導いてくれる師も失い、これまで以上に固い結束を求められるハリーたち。しかし、闇の力が、しっかりと結ばれたはずの3人の絆を引き裂いていく・・・・・。
一方、かつてないほど危険な場所となった魔法界。長いあいだ恐れられてきたヴォルデモート卿の復活が現実のものとなり、魔法省ばかりか、ホグワーツ魔法魔術学校までもが死喰い人の支配下に置かれた今、安全な場所はもはやどこにもなくなった。ヴォルデモート卿の命令により、ハリーを生け捕りにしようとする死喰い人の魔の手が迫る。
そして、分霊箱の手がかりを探すうちに出会った「死の秘宝」の伝説。ほとんど忘れられた古い物語に記されたその伝説が本当なら、ヴォルデモートは、分霊箱を上回る究極の力を手に入れてしまうかもしれない・・・・・。
ハリーはまったく知らないが、彼の未来は、彼自身の過去によってすでに決められているのだ。“生き残った男の子”になった日に、ハリーの運命は決まった。
初めてホグワーツの門をくぐったあの日からずっと積み重ねてきた準備―――それらはすべて、このヴォルデモートとの決着の日のために・・・・・。
Elder
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.
Lieut General Strathairn
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Dr. Andretti
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
Emil Wetterstedt
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
Archie Saunders
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence captured on his camera is used by his unscrupulous boss, Hamilton, to blackmail the very people they are supposed to be protecting. The tables are turned when Fielding and Hamilton themselves become the subject of scrutiny and are plunged into a world of Subterfuge, Intrigue, blackmail and murder.
Horace Greeley
舞台は19世紀半ばのニューヨーク。移民同士の抗争で父を殺され、自身も投獄された少年アムステルダム。15年後、復讐のために素性を隠して、父を殺したギャング団に入り込む。しかし、そこで謎めいた女ジェニーと出会い、許されない恋に落ちてしまう……。
Anatoli Grushkov
第四次中東戦争の最中、イスラエル空軍に所属する1機のA-4が戦術核爆弾を搭載して基地を離陸するが、飛行中にアラブ連合軍の2K12地対空ミサイルによって撃墜される。パイロットは死亡し、機体も空中で大破するが、搭載されていた戦術核は原形を留めたまま砂漠の砂中に埋もれてゆく。
それから月日は流れ、ロシアで前大統領が急死しチェチェン紛争に関して強硬姿勢も辞さない新大統領ネメロフが就任し、米ロ両国の緊迫した関係を改善するため米国はCIAの長官キャボットとその補佐のジャック・ライアンをロシアに派遣する。しかし、両国の間で生じた相互の不信はぬぐえず、これを利用したネオナチやKKKを中心とした勢力が戦争を起こそうと策動を始めた。
Lord Widgery
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Lord Luthan
人質事件を扱うプロの交渉人テリーは、反政府ゲリラに誘拐された技師を救うべく南米へ飛ぶ。保険金の未支払いが発覚するも、技師の妻アリスに哀願されて交渉を始めるテリーだったが……。アクションやロマンスの要素も盛り込んだサスペンス作。
Parson Staffer
ジョン・トラヴォルタ主演、カルト的人気を誇るSF超大作。舞台は西暦3000年。異星人に支配された地球で、人類の反逆が幕を開ける。SFX技術を駆使して描かれたバトル・シーンは見る者を引き込むほどの大迫力。
Mr. Carruthers
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
Ben Kramer
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Oliver Mather
In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.
Captain Keene
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
Lange
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
イギリス諜報部MI6はロシア当局と合同で、ロシア国境における武器取引マーケットの調査を行っていた。侵入したボンドの撮影した映像から、大量の武器と日本人テロリストの磯倉聡やアメリカ人のテロリストのヘンリー・グプタをはじめとする危険人物が集まっていることを確認したMI6は、ロシア側の合意によりイギリス海軍艦艇からの巡航ミサイル攻撃を行う。ところが、市場の商品の中に核魚雷がある事が判明、ミサイルは母艦から距離が離れすぎていた為自爆電波が届かず、ボンドには退避命令が出される。だが、ボンドは命令を無視して核魚雷を搭載した戦闘機諸共確保して飛び去り、チェルノブイリ以上の核汚染は阻止された。しかし、この代償に会場にいた危険人物の1人、ヘンリー・グプタは逃走してしまう。
Venables
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.
Bolek
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Vereshagin
ハイテクと変装を駆使する怪盗セイント。そんな彼に、低温核融合の方程式を女性科学者から奪うよう依頼がある。彼女に近づくセイントだったが……。1960年代に放映されたアメリカのTVドラマの映画化。
Sam Campbell
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
Dieter Creutz
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
Smythe
イングランド王の圧制に家族を殺された、スコットランド人のウォーレス。愛する家族の仇を討つため、多くの民衆とともに立ち上がった……。中世スコットランドに実在した、伝説のヒーローの激闘を描いた歴史スペクタクル・アクション。
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
Inquisitor
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.
A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY FAXES, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.
Major Nairn
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour
Major Nairn
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
Nairn
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Clitheroe
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Octave
Friedrich Olbricht
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Vogel
舞台は1938年。冒険家として、また考古学教授として多忙な日々を過ごすインディ・ジョーンズに、大富豪ドノヴァンから相談が持ちかけられる。イエス・キリストの聖杯の所在を示す重大な遺物を手に入れたが、調査隊の隊長が行方不明になり、それを探して欲しいというのだ。 最初は渋っていたインディだったが、その行方不明になった隊長というのが自分の父、ヘンリー・ジョーンズであると聞き、仕方なく依頼を承諾。父が最後に消息を絶ったヴェネツィアに向かった。
Poyser
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
John Carberry
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
Chorus
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
Leonard Scruby
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Guy Preger
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
Richard Hussey
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Antonio
Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered Julia. Valentine soon falls in love with Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, but then Proteus meets the captivating Silvia... and he too becomes besotted.
Reinhard Beck
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story. Written by John Vogel
Duke of Buckingham
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
John Hume / Lieutenant
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Duke of Alencon
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Henry Straker
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
Demosthenes
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
Gunnar Wedelman
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
Schroeder
第二次世界大戦中のユーゴスラビアでは、強大なドイツ軍が、パルチザン将兵をネレトバ峡谷に追いつめていた。彼らを救うため、アメリカ軍特殊部隊“フォース10”がネレトバ橋の爆破を命じられる。フォース10には、ナバロン要塞を爆破したマロリーとミラーが加えられた。しかしユーゴスラビアに降下した彼らは、ドラザック大尉率いる王党派に捕えられ、ドイツ軍に引き渡されてしまう。
Duff
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
連合軍のノルマンディ上陸作戦から3カ月後の1944年9月5日、ドイツ軍はオランダからの撤退を開始した。9月10日、ロンドンのブラウニング中将の司令室に司令官たちが集まり、オランダからドイツにかけての5つの橋を占拠するための話し合いが行われた。それはオランダのアーンエム付近に空からのマーケット、陸からのガーデン両作戦を遂行し、ネーデル・ライン河からベルリンへ進撃路を開くための史上空前の大作戦だった。
Karl
１９４３年、ヒトラーはドイツ軍スタイナー大佐に、イギリスのチャーチル首相誘拐計画“イーグル作戦”の命令を下す。それはチャーチルがイギリスの保養地スタドリーで静養するタイミングを見計らって実行せよ、というものだった。作戦にはＩＲＡのデヴリンも加わり、ポーランド軍に扮したスタイナーら１６名の精鋭が現地に降り立つ。だが、アクシデントで正体がばれ、米兵との交戦の末になんとかスタイナーは窮地を逃れる。
Interrogator
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Monk (uncredited)
アメリカ外交官ロバート・ソーンはローマの産院で自分の子が死産であったことを知る。悲嘆するロバートだったが同日同時刻に生まれた孤児を知りそのまま養子としてダミアンと名づけ引き取ることにした。ダミアンの誕生パーティの最中に乳母が突然首吊り投身自殺した事件をきっかけにダミアンを調べる写真家はロバートに孤児を紹介した神父からダミアンの出生を探り始める。
Bruce
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
Richard Lovell
A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.
2nd Lt. Toby Strang
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40 years ago, Headnaster shows how little has changed in teaching, given its focus on the conflict between old and modern teaching methods, as well as the eternal jockeying for position amongst teaching staff.
Reg Nuttall
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
Playboy
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
Edward Seymour
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
The Artist
An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
Claudio
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
Roger
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
Lt. Hawke
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
