Hugh Keays-Byrne
| Hugh Keays-Byrne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
18 May 1947 Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Nationality | English-Australian |
| Occupation | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1973–2015 |
| Notable work | Toecutter in Mad Max Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road Toad in Stone |
Hugh Keays-Byrne (born 18 May 1947) is an English-Australian character actor. He moved to Australia in 1973 and is well-known there as a television and film actor. Outside Australia, he is best known for his role as "Toad" in the 1974 movie Stone, the main antagonist "Toecutter" in the 1979 film Mad Max, the main antagonist "Immortan Joe" in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, and "Grunchlk" in the science fiction television series Farscape.
Keays-Byrne was born in Srinagar, in the state Jammu and Kashmir in India, to British parents. His family moved to Britain when he was a young child. He was schooled in England and began his career as a stage actor. Between 1968 and 1972, he had parts in Royal Shakespeare Company productions including As You Like It, The Balcony, Doctor Faustus, Hamlet, King Lear, The Man of Mode, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest or The Enchanted Island and Troilus and Cressida.
His first television acting job was in Britain in the programme Boy Meets Girl in 1967. He went to Australia with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973 with Peter Brook's famous production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and remained in Australia when the tour ended. In 1974, he acted in the TV show Essington, which was followed by big screen roles in films such as Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Trespassers (1976) and Snapshot (1979). After acting in the TV drama The Death Train in 1978, Keays-Byrne garnered the role that he is best known for outside Australia: the violent gang leader "Toecutter" in the apocalyptic science fiction film Mad Max (1979).
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