British character actor Michael Byrne played characters in two movies who helped prevent a criminal organization from starting a nuclear war between two superpowers. In TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Byrne played Admiral Kelly, commander of the British frigate HMS Bedford which sinks Bond Villain Elliot Carver' stealth ship which was supposed to start a nuclear war between England and China.
In THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, Byrne played Anatoli Grushkov, an ex-KGB assassin and Kremlin operative, who helps CIA analyst Jack Ryan prevent a neo-Nazi organization from starting a nuclear war between the US and Russia.
In TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Michael Byrne played Admiral Kelly, commander of the British frigate HMS Bedford which sinks Bond Villain Elliot Carver' stealth ship which was supposed to start a nuclear war between England and China.


In THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, Byrne played Anatoli Grushkov, an ex-KGB assassin and Kremlin operative, who helps CIA analyst Jack Ryan prevent a neo-Nazi organization from starting a nuclear war between the US and Russia.

In THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, a neo-Nazi group explodes a nuclear warhead in Baltimore which is supposed to lead to US nuclear retaliation against Russia.
