{"id":503791,"date":"2026-07-01T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503791\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:04:10","slug":"michael-byrne-who-starred-in-harry-potter-braveheart-and-indiana-jones-dead-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503791\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Byrne, who starred in Harry Potter, Braveheart and Indiana Jones, dead at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">In the 1970s, he starred in a string of World War II movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far and Force 10 from Navarone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Over six decades, Byrne shared the screen with the likes of Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Pierce Brosnan, and Sean Connery.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Naomi Watts and Michael Byrne are seen on the set of 'Diana' on July 03, 2012 in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Naomi Watts and Michael Byrne are seen on the set of &#8216;Diana&#8217; on July 03, 2012 in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">In 2010, he played Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He also appeared on the small screen, including Coronation Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">According to the obituary published by the Guardian in the United Kingdom, Byrne is survived by his wife Carole Nimmons, their daughters, and their three grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 1970s, he starred in a string of World War II movies, including The Eagle Has Landed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115028,3376,18919,95,1975,251295,14801,251294,690,6179,156,9859,78,9222,2176,5494,111,139,69,38627,48942,1299],"class_list":["post-503791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-115028","tag-actor","tag-aged","tag-and","tag-at","tag-braveheart","tag-british","tag-byrne","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-entertainment","tag-harry","tag-in","tag-indiana","tag-jones","tag-michael","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-potter","tag-starred","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}