Hugh Keays-Byrne

This article is written from a real world point of view and is not considered to be part of the Mad Max canonical narrative.

Hugh Keays-Byrne (born May 18, 1947 in Kashmir, India - deceased December 2, 2020 in Gosford, New South Wales, Australia) was an Australian actor who portrayed Toecutter in George Miller's 1979 film Mad Max and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Biography[]

Keays-Byrne was born into a British family in what was then colonial India and was forced to move to Britain after India gained independence and was then partitioned. He began his career as a popular and in-demand Shakespearean actor, so he took part in the Mad Max film franchise as an experienced professional actor.

Selected Filmography[]

Mad Max (1979)
Five Mile Creek (1984)
Treasure Island (1987)
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Trivia[]

Keays-Byrne is one of several actors in the Mad Max series to play two separate and distinct characters, having played Toecutter and Immortan Joe. The others are Bruce Spence (Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 and Jedediah in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), Josh Helman (Slit in Mad Max: Fury Road and Scrotus in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Max Fairchild (Benno in Mad Max and Broken Victim in Mad Max 2), Lachy Hulme (Immortan Joe and Rizzdale Pell in Furiosa), and Elsa Pataky (Vuvalini General and Mr. Norton in Furiosa.)