Hugh Keays-Byrne

Personal Info

Birthday

May 18, 1947

Day of Death

2020-12-02

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Kashmir, India

Also Known As

هیو کیز-برن

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.

Known For

Farscape

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max

Sleeping Beauty

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

Barnaby and Me

Stone

Filmography

2017
Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
as Self
2015
The Madness of Max
as Self
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Immortan Joe
2011
Sleeping Beauty
as Man 3
1999
Huntsman 5.1
as Bain
Voyage au centre de la terre
as McNiff
1992
Resistance
as Peter
1989
The Blood of Heroes
as Lord Vlle
1988
Dadah Is Death
as Hammed
Badlands 2005
as Moondance
1987
Les Patterson Saves the World
as Inspector Farouk
Treasure Island
as (voice)
1986
Kangaroo
as Kangaroo
For Love Alone
as Andrew
1985
Burke & Wills
as Ambrose Kyte
1984
Lorca and the Outlaws
as Danny
Strikebound
as Idris Williams
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Mining Executive
1983
Going Down
as Bottom
1980
The Chain Reaction
as Eagle
1979
Snapshot
as Linsey
Mad Max
as Toecutter
1978
Blue Fin
as Stan
1977
Barnaby and Me
as Huggins
1976
The Trespassers
as Frank
Mad Dog Morgan
as Simon
1975
The Man from Hong Kong
as Morrie Grosse
1974
Stone
as Toad