- Born
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Michael Byrne was born on November 7, 1943 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Braveheart (1995).
- Children
- ParentsHelen Byrne
- Often plays Nazis or figures of military authority.
- Has played a Nazi foil for Harrison Ford twice, in Force 10 from Navarone (1978) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). In both movies, his character ends up in a vehicle falling off a cliff.
- Has played a Nazi in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in Apt Pupil (1998).
- He was brought up by a single mother from Kilkenny Ireland.
- He and his Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) co-star Bill Nighy both played General Friedrich Olbricht in dramas depicting the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler: Byrne in The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990) and Nighy in Valkyrie (2008).
- Father of Allie Byrne, but - despite a popular misconception - is no relation to Gabriel Byrne.
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