Michael Byrne

Born: 1943-11-07

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.


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as Gellert Grindelwald
Released: 2010-11-17

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...

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as Vogel
Released: 1989-05-24

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a...

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as Smythe
Released: 1995-05-24

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William...

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Gangs of New York

as Horace Greeley
Released: 2002-12-14

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the...

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as Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford
Released: 1997-12-11

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against...

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The Omen

as Monk (uncredited)
Released: 1976-06-25

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien...

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as Lt. Col. Giles A.M. Vandeleur
Released: 1977-06-15

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...

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as The Duke
Released: 2015-01-21

An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret...

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The Sum of All Fears

as Anatoli Grushkov
Released: 2002-05-31

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds...

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as Lord Luthan
Released: 2000-12-08

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has...

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The Saint

as Vereshagin
Released: 1997-04-03

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for...

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Apt Pupil

as Ben Kramer
Released: 1998-10-23

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism,...

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as Parson Staffer
Released: 2000-05-12

In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a...

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Blood: The Last Vampire

as Elder
Released: 2009-04-02

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented...

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Force 10 from Navarone

as Schroeder
Released: 1978-08-16

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent...

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The Eagle Has Landed

as Karl
Released: 1976-12-24

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a...

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The Island on Bird Street

as Bolek
Released: 1997-04-11

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his...

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The Musketeer

as Treville, Head of the Musketeers
Released: 2001-09-07

Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death -...

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Diana

as Christiaan Barnard
Released: 2013-09-19

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines...

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Outpost: Black Sun

as Neurath
Released: 2012-04-25

A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging...

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The Medusa Touch

as Duff
Released: 1978-04-13

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe...

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Quartet

as Frank White
Released: 2012-12-26

Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to...

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Buster

as Poyser
Released: 1988-09-16

Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not...

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Beyond the Sea

as Dr. Andretti
Released: 2004-11-16

Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and...

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The Scarlet and the Black

as Reinhard Beck
Released: 1983-02-02

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped...

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The Last Witness

as Coroner
Released: 2018-05-11

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during...

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Vampyres

as Playboy
Released: 1974-07-06

A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the...

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Nostradamus

as Inquisitor
Released: 1994-08-18

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor...

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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse

as Venables
Released: 1997-07-01

Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because...

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Champions

as Richard Hussey
Released: 1984-04-20

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

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Hornblower: The Even Chance

as Captain Keene
Released: 1998-10-07

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio...

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Sharpe's Honour

as Major Nairn
Released: 1994-06-08

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely...

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The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Friedrich Olbricht
Released: 1990-01-30

A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to...

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Henry VI Part 2

as John Hume / Lieutenant
Released: 1983-01-09

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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Gunshy

as Lange
Released: 1998-03-06

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to...

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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter

as Sir Charles Harwood
Released: 2015-12-27

When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to...

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The Mark of Cain

as Lieut General Strathairn
Released: 2007-10-18

After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are...

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The Infiltrator

as Dieter Creutz
Released: 1995-06-24

In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a...

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Intrigo: Death of an Author

as Keller
Released: 2018-10-11

A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer,...

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Sharpe's Company

as Major Nairn
Released: 1994-05-25

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...

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Conduct Unbecoming

as 2nd Lt. Toby Strang
Released: 1975-01-01

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored...

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Rogue Male

as Interrogator
Released: 1976-09-22

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot...

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The Happy Valley

as John Carberry
Released: 1987-09-06

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a...

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The Good Father

as Leonard Scruby
Released: 1985-11-01

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of...

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

as Edward Seymour
Released: 1972-07-13

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken...

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Sharpe's Enemy

as Major Nairn
Released: 1994-06-01

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...

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The Scarlet Blade

as Lt. Hawke
Released: 1963-09-01

A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the...

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Running Late

as Clitheroe
Released: 1992-10-11

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the...

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Henry VI Part 3

as Marquess of Montague / Father that killed his son
Released: 1983-01-16

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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Alien Overlords

as Michael
Released: 2018-11-14

A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about...

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The Fix

as Sam Campbell
Released: 1997-01-04

The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw...

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The Search for Alexander the Great

as Demosthenes
Released: 1981-05-06

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his...

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The First Line

as Richard
Released: 2014-11-27

Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze...

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The Tragedy of Richard III

as Duke of Buckingham
Released: 1983-01-23

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the...

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30 Years to Life

as Oliver Mather
Released: 1998-10-15

In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he...

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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

as Mr. Carruthers
Released: 1999-10-15

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time,...

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Sunday

as Lord Widgery
Released: 2002-01-28

Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that...

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In the Secret State

as Guy Preger
Released: 1985-03-10

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its...

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The Stunts of 'Indiana Jones'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-10-21

The men who created Indiana Jones and the those who performed the stunt work look on the ground...

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

as Antonio
Released: 1983-12-27

Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus...

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Henry VI Part 1

as Duke of Alencon
Released: 1983-01-02

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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The Absence of War

as uncredited
Released: 1995-05-18

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous...

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The Image

as The Artist
Released: 1969-01-01

An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.

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Coming Out

as Gunnar Wedelman
Released: 1979-04-10

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of...

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Butley

as Reg Nuttall
Released: 1974-01-21

Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben...

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The Gold Machine

as Andrew Norton
Released: 2022-09-02

Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their...

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The Silent Playground

as Roger
Released: 1963-12-31

Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out...

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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as Chorus
Released: 1986-09-16

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King,...

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Headmaster

as uncredited
Released: 1974-03-14

Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his...

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Wednesday Love

as Bruce
Released: 1975-05-08

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

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The Return of the Dancing Master

as Emil Wetterstedt
Released: 2004-04-08

Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner...

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Midsomer Murders

as Keith Grundy
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Silent Witness

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-02-21

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...

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Crossing Lines

as Edward Baxendale
First aired: 2013-08-22

Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy...

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The Practice

as Officer (uncredited)
First aired: 1997-03-04

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...

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Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Patrick Marney
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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The Professionals

as Werner Dreisinger
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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Agatha Raisin

as Bishop Parsons
First aired: 2016-06-07

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the...

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Waking the Dead

as Joe Brackley
First aired: 2001-06-18

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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A Touch of Frost

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-12-06

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...

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Hamish Macbeth

as Duncan Scott
First aired: 1995-03-26

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is...

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Bodies

as Old Mullins
First aired: 2023-10-19

One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must...

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Ultimate Force

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-09-16

This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British...

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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as DCC Charles Griswold
First aired: 1987-08-02

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...

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Yes, Prime Minister

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-01-09

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled...

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Thriller

as Richard Lovell
First aired: 1973-04-14

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...

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Secret Army

as Paul Vercors
First aired: 1977-09-07

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...

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Sharpe

as Major Nairn
First aired: 1993-05-05

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...

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Hornblower

as Captain Keene
First aired: 1998-10-07

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman,...

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Within These Walls

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-04

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...

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Between the Lines

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-09-04

Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...

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Ellis Island

as Dr. Carl Travers
First aired: 1984-11-11

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television...

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Smiley's People

as Peter Guillam
First aired: 1982-09-20

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization,...

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The Mists of Avalon

as Merlin
First aired: 2001-07-14

The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer...

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Empire

as Cicero
First aired: 2005-06-28

As Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest...

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The Vice

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-01-04

The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. It ran for five short...

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Saracen

as Col. Patrick Ansell
First aired: 1989-09-02

Saracen is a 1989 British television drama series. Made for ITV by Central Television, it...

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The Living and the Dead

as Ebenezer Alsop
First aired: 2016-06-28

Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live...

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Heat of the Sun

as uncredited
First aired: 1998-01-28

Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring...

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Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

as George Abell
First aired: 1986-01-26

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in...

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Oliver's Travels

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-06-11

Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan...

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Oliver's Travels

as Moody
First aired: 1995-06-11

Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan...

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No Bananas

as Edward Grant
First aired: 1996-05-05

This 10-episode television miniseries, set in England during World War II, tells the story of...

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