Hugh Keays-Byrne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-05-18 (73 years old)

Deathday

2020-12-02

Place of Birth

Kashmir, India

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Biography

Hugh Keays-Byrne (May 18, 1947 – December 2, 2020) was a British-Australian actor and film director. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was best known for playing the main antagonist in two films from the Mad Max franchise: Toecutter in Mad Max (1979), and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He also played Toad in the 1974 biker film Stone, and Grunchlk on the science fiction series Farscape. Keays-Byrne was born in Srinagar, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (part of the British Raj then, India now) to British parents; his family returned to Britain when India was partitioned. He began his career as a stage actor. ...

Acting

1975

The Man from Hong Kong

as Morrie Grosse

1979

Mad Max

as Toecutter

1974

Stone

as Toad

1980

1978

Blue Fin

as Stan

1979

Snapshot

as Linsey

1984

Strikebound

as Idris Williams

1985

Burke & Wills

as Ambrose Kyte

1987

1976

1986

1977

Barnaby and Me

as Huggins

2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

as Immortan Joe

1988

1987

Treasure Island

as (voice)

1976

1989

1984

Where the Green Ants Dream

as Mining Executive

1983

Going Down

as Bottom

1988

Badlands 2005

as Moondance

1986

Kangaroo

as Kangaroo

2011

1992

Resistance

as Peter

1999

Production

1992

Resistance

as Director

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