Actor Michael Byrne, famous for his roles in "Indiana Jones" and "Harry Potter", died at the age of 82 on June 20. The cause of death of the artist has not yet been disclosed.
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Mmichael Byrne, known for being in films such as "Indiana Jones and the Great Crusade", of 1989 and, more recently, in "Harry Potter and the Talisman of Death: Part 1". I was 82 years old.
In the film starring Harrison Ford the artist played the villain Colonel Vogel and in the film adapted from the work of J. K. Rowling made Gellert Grindelwald (in old age).
According to The Guardian, the actor died on June 20 and left his wife, actress Carole Nimmons, with whom he had been married since 1965, in addition to two daughters and three grandchildren. Cause of death has not been reported.
Michael Byrne was born in London in 1943 and graduated as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He began his career in the 1960s in television and later in theater. In the 1970s, he starred in films about World War II as “The Flight of the Eagles”, “A Bridge Too Far” and “The Cannons of Navarone”.
In 1985 he participated in “Love and Revenge” alongside Anthony Hopkins, in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, where he contrasted with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, in “Braveheart – The Warrior Challenge”, alongside Mel Gibson and in “New York Gangs” with Leonardo DiCaprio.
In “007 – Tomorrow Never Dies”, Byrne played Admiral Kelly, playing James Bond (Pierre Brosnan).
On television, he excelled in the television novel “Coronation Street” of ITV, between 2008 and 2010, and in the 2013 miniseries “Lightfields”.