Hugh Keays-Byrne
Birthplace: Srinagar
Born: 1947-05-18; 1947-05-19
Died: 2020-12-02
Occupations recorded in source
actor; film actor; film director; stage actor; television actor
Biography from Wikipedia
Hugh Keays-Byrne (18 May 1947 – 2 December 2020) was a British-Australian actor. He began his career on stage in his native England, where he was member of the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1968 and 1972. After emigrating to Australia in 1973, he established himself as a supporting actor in action and thriller films such as Stone and The Man from Hong Kong. His breakthrough film role was as the antagonist Toecutter in the original Mad Max. Decades later, he played another villain in the series, Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Over the course of his career, Keays-Byrne was nominated for an AACTA Award and won a Logie Award for his performance in the television drama Rush. The 2024 prequel to Fury Road, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is dedicated to his memory.
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — Immortan Joe
- Sleeping Beauty (2011)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) — McNiff
- Moby Dick (1998) — Mr. Stubb
- Resistance (1992)
- Dadah Is Death (1988)
- Les Patterson Saves the World (1987) — Inspector Farouk
- For Love Alone (1986)
- The Chain Reaction (1980)
- Mad Max (1979) — Toecutter
- Death Train (1978)
- Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
- The Tichborne Affair (1975)
- Stone (1974) — Toad
- The Man from Hong Kong (1974)
Directing
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Bill Hunter · 2 films
- Bruce Spence · 2 films
- Frank Thring · 2 films
- George Miller · 2 films
- George Trumbull Miller · 2 films
- Jack Thompson · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.