TV Guide: Michael Byrne

Listing: Beyond the Sea

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 14 07:00 PM IFC

Listing: Braveheart

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 14 12:00 PM A&E

Video: The Better Mousetrap

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:07:46 -0500

Simon spends a trying time on the French Riviera when he is implicated in a jewel robbery. Templar: Roger Moore. Natalie: Alexandra Stewart. Latignant: Arnold Diamond. Tench: Michael Byrne. Alphonse: Ronnie Barker.

Video: Gunshy

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:30:48 -0500

In this crime drama, New York journalist Jake Bridges (William Petersen), off on a bender in Atlantic City, gets into a bar confrontation with Lew Collins (Meat Loaf) but is rescued by gregarious Frankie McGregor (Michael Wincott), a member of a gang headed by Irishman Lange (Michael Byrne), a sadist in a wheelchair. After Bridges gets an eyeful of Frankie's girlfriend, nurse Melissa (Diane Lane), he finds excuses to drop by the hospital where she works. Admiring Bridges's credentials as a writer, Frankie cultivates his companionship in order to upgrade his schooling in literature. Jake gives him a reading list, while Frankie draws Jake into the gang. Shown at the 1998 Santa Barbara Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide.

Video: Mists Of Avalon, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:34:39 -0500

This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of the kingdom's ancient pagan religion -- to make sure that the next king will honor both the old and new faiths and thereby banish the barbarian hordes. Viviane manipulates her sister Igraine (Caroline Goodall) into marrying King Uther Pendragon (Mark Lewis Jones) and bearing a son, Arthur (Edward Atterton) -- much to the consternation of Viviane's other sister, the power-hungry Morgause (Joan Allen). Arthur grows up happily with his older half-sister, Morgaine (Julianna Margulies), until Merlin (Michael Byrne) spirits him off for training and Viviane brings Morgaine to the mystical island of Avalon to develop her magical connection to the Goddess. Years later, the siblings reunite in a masked mating ritual, unaware th