Hugh Keays-Byrne
Actor
Born May 18, 1947 in Kashmir, India
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.
Filmography
It’s a Mad Max World
Self
Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
Self
The Madness of Max
Self
Mad Max: Fury Road
Immortan Joe
Sleeping Beauty
Man 3
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Grunchlk
Journey to the Center of the Earth
McNiff
Farscape
Grunchlk
Voyage au centre de la terre
McNiff
Huntsman 5.1
Bain
Moby Dick
Mr. Stubb
Resistance
Peter
The Blood of Heroes
Lord Vlle
Dadah Is Death
Hammed
Badlands 2005
Moondance
Les Patterson Saves the World
Inspector Farouk
Treasure Island
(voice)
Kangaroo
Kangaroo
For Love Alone
Andrew
Burke & Wills
Ambrose Kyte
Lorca and the Outlaws
Danny
Strikebound
Idris Williams
Where the Green Ants Dream
Mining Executive
Going Down
Bottom
Ginger Meggs
Captain Hook
The Chain Reaction
Eagle
Snapshot
Linsey
Mad Max
Toecutter
Blue Fin
Stan
The Death Train
Barnaby and Me
Huggins
The Trespassers
Frank
Mad Dog Morgan
Simon
The Man from Hong Kong
Morrie Grosse
Stone
Toad