Biography
In films since at least 1963's The Scarlet Blade, British actor Michael Byrne has had roles ranging from the benign to the malevolent. He was equally at home with the Olde English trappings of
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973) as he was with the up-to-date gangster ambience of
The Long Good Friday (1982). Among his credits were
Butley (1974),
A Bridge too Far (1977) (halfway down the cast sheet as Lt. Col. Vandelur),
The Medusa Touch (1978) and
Force 10 from Navarone (1978). In 1989, Michael Byrne played Vogel, one of the multitudes of plot motivators in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide