
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.
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The titles people know Hugh from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Immortan Joe
as Man 3
as Grunchlk · 2 episodes
as McNiff · 2 episodes
as Grunchlk · 2 episodes

as McNiff

as Bain
as Mr. Stubb · 2 episodes

as Peter
as Lord Vlle

as Hammed

as Moondance
as Inspector Farouk

as (voice)

as Kangaroo
as Andrew

as Ambrose Kyte
as Linsey
as Toecutter

as Stan


as Huggins

as Frank
as Simon
as Morrie Grosse

as Leslie · 1 episode
The people who keep turning up in Hugh’s titles.









