Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/18/1947
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 pa...
Known For
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Immortan Joe
Mad Max
as Toecutter
Sleeping Beauty
as Man 3
Snapshot
as Linsey
Lorca and the Outlaws
as Danny
Resistance
as Peter
Kangaroo
as Kangaroo
The Blood of Heroes
as Lord Vlle
The Man from Hong Kong
as Morrie Grosse
Ginger Meggs
as Captain Hook
For Love Alone
as Andrew
The Chain Reaction
as Eagle
Badlands 2005
as Moondance
Treasure Island
as (voice)
Mad Dog Morgan
as Simon
Blue Fin
as Stan
The Madness of Max
as Self
Barnaby and Me
as Huggins
Dadah Is Death
as Hammed
Voyage au centre de la terre
as McNiff