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  • Vampyres
  • Vampyres review by from Uxbridge, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Bloody Great! 27 December 2004
    ...self to finally kill him. Other victims, Rupert (Karl Lanchbury) and a playboy (Michael Byrne) are not so fortunate. The women welter in gore as the men are slaughtered. Th...   Read customer review
  • Empire
  • Empire review by max1963 from Hull
    Rated - 5.0 stars EMPIRE 19 August 2008
    ...Excellent piece of roman history & Michael Byrne who plays Cicero (Coronation Street Ted Page) is very good. Epic four-hour series about the rise of Octavius who succeeds J...   Read customer review

Michael Byrne - filmography


  • Empire
  • Empire (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Vincent Regan,  Fiona Shaw,  Orla Brady
    Director: John Gray,  Kim Manners,  Greg Yaitanes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lavish TV miniseries charting the struggle for power in post-Caesar Rome. With the assassination of Julius Caesar by the ambitious Marc Anthony (Vincent Regan) fresh in his mind, Caesar's chosen heir, his 18 year-old nephew Octavius (Santiago Cabrera), is forced to flee the city to fight another ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 149 members
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  • A Civil Action
  • A Civil Action on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sydney Pollack,  John Travolta,  Mary Mara
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) is a cynical personal injury attorney more concerned with personal profit than justice. Despite his reputation for only taking on big-money cases which he can settle out of court, Schlichtmann agrees to take on the case of Anne Anderson (Kathleen Quinlan), a mother ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,414 member
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  • The Saint
  • The Saint on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Lucija Serbedzija,  Val Kilmer,  Henry Goodman
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), alias The Saint, is a gentleman spy and thief. After stealing a microchip from Russian oil magnate Ivan Tretiak (Rade Serbebzija), he is hired by Tretiak to appropriate a secret formula for a new energy process called cold fusion from American scientist Emma Russell (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,651 members
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  • Sharpe's Honour / Sharpe's Gold
  • Sharpe's Honour / Sharpe's Gold (2 discs) (1994)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Daragh O'Malley,  Jayne Ashbourne
    Director: Tom Clegg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A double bill of the dashing Napoleonic hero, Major Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean). In 'Sharpe's Honour' he finds himself ensnared in a tricky situation in France when he is sentenced to death for the murder of a French nobleman. Whilst in 'Sharpe's Gold' the Major pits his wits against El Casco, a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,330 members
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  • The Advocates - Series 1
  • The Advocates - Series 1 on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Cal Macaninch,  Angus McLennan,  Isla Blair
    Director: Peter Barber-Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three-part legal drama set in Edinburgh, starring Isla Blair, Ewan Stewart, Stella Gonet and Shirley Henderson. When a young prostitute dies of a drug overdose, Dr Joe Sangster (Jonathan Hackett) suspects foul play. As the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city threatens the future ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 23 members
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  • Orchid House
  • Orchid House on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Diana Quick,  Nigel Terry,  Madge Sinclair
    Director: Horace Ove
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Featuring an all-star cast and based on one of the great novels of West Indian literature; Orchid House is a gripping and at times breathtaking drama of thwarted passion, desire and colonialism in Dominica, directed by acclaimed independent director Horace Ove. Lally tells the story of all she has ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 14 members
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  • Smiley's People
  • Smiley's People (2 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Michael Elphick,  Alec Guinness,  Anthony Bate
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British masterspy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) returns to his old department following the murder of his friend, General Vladimir, a Russian who once worked for British Intelligence. When it transpires that Vladimir was in fact a double agent, Smiley becomes engaged in a battle of wills with his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 3,594 members
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  • Vampyres
  • Vampyres on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Brian Deacon,  Sally Faulkner,  Murray Brown
    Director: Jose Ramon Larraz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An erotic ('lesbian vampire') take on the Hammer horror films of the Seventies. Deep in the English countryside, two very attractive bisexual vampires (Marianne Morris and Anulka) spend their evenings hunting male and female prey to take back to their lair for orgies of sex and blood. When a young ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 890 members
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Michael Byrne facts

5 most recent films

Rome, Blood and Sand - 2.5 stars
Empire - 3.0 stars
Battlefield Earth - A Saga of the Year 3000 - 2.0 stars
Heat Of The Sun - 3.5 stars
A Civil Action - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Smiley's People - 4.0 stars
Sharpe's Company / Sharpe's Enemy - 4.0 stars
Sharpe's Honour / Sharpe's Gold - 4.0 stars
A Civil Action - 3.0 stars
Empire - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Orchid House - 2.0 stars
The Advocates - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Saracen - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Heat Of The Sun - 3.5 stars
Battlefield Earth - A Saga of the Year 3000 - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Susannah Harker - 3 times - show films
John Travolta - 3 times - show films
Trevor Eve - 3 times - show films
Joss Ackland - 3 times - show films
Kim Coates - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Paul Seed - 3 times - show films
Diarmuid Lawrence - 3 times - show films
Tom Clegg - 3 times - show films
Simon Langton - 3 times - show films
Adrian Shergold - 3 times - show films

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