Highest rated movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Lowest rated movie: Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Looking for reviews of Michael Byrne movies? Cinafilm has a total of 11,083 reviews across 40 movies.
Movies starring Michael Byrne have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - released in 1989 - is Michael Byrne's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 873 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Michael Byrne is Battlefield Earth - released in 2000 - with a score of 19% based on 821 reviews.
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.
Michael Byrne has acted in films with Alun Armstrong, Vernon Dobtcheff, Sean Bean and Michael Gambon.
Michael Byrne has worked with these film directors: Tom Clegg, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson.
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