The original Mad Max from director George Miller ( Happy Feet 2) was shot for a tiny budget. Actor Hugh Keays-Byrne has played not one, but two great Mad Max villains. Here's how he crafted Toecutter and Immortan Joe. We will miss his example and his friendship. Hugh Keays-Byrne has played not one, but two iconic roles in the Mad Max franchise. His life was governed by his sense of the oneness of humanity. He cared about social justice and preserving the environment long before these issues became fashionable. Threnchard-Smith went on to write “Hugh had a generous heart, offering a helping hand to people in need, or a place to stay to a homeless teenager. He’s an icon for movie and motorcycle fans alike. ![]() Keays-Byrne was the vengeful leader of the biker gang “The Acolytes” or the “Zed Runners” for those who remember the nasty bikers from the 1975 post-apocalyptic highway horror. A former Royal Shakespeare Company actor who settled in Australia co-starred in my Man From Hong Kong, and achieved world wide recognition as the Toecutter in Mad Max, and Immortan Joe in Mad Max-Fury Road.” Actor Tim Burns recalls working with the bikers: They all wanted to ride the bikes. Director, and friend, Bryan Threnchard-Smith announced the news on his Facebook page: “I am sad to report that our friend Hugh Keays-Byrne passed away in hospital yesterday. Local motorcycle club The Vigilanties made up the rest of Toecutters gang. I'm yearning to play a lover.( WKRG/ BIKER DAD)– The actor who played evil biker gang leader “Toecutter” in the movie Mad Max has died at 73. "It's a very worked-out structure that's been formed, and basically it's torn down by traitors and an itinerant blood bag."īeing a villain is just fine, because "for an old ham like me, it's great fun," the actor says. Immortan Joe "wants to bring back the things he sees are of value," Keays-Byrne says. He has taken a number of women to be his brides and mothers to future zealots, yet rebellion shows up at his doorstep when captive Max (Tom Hardy) teams with one of the Immortan's crew, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), to take the women to safety. Wearing medals symbolizing his military background, the Immortan rules over the post-apocalyptic Wasteland with an iron fist, and that includes his personal life. "I don't think you think about things like this. ![]() It's all a bit trippy for the India-born former member of London's Royal Shakespeare Company. His followers are a little different - and he's driving a six-wheeled monster car instead of a chopper - but Keays-Byrne is at it again as the masked warlord Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road,which racked up more than $44 million its opening weekend. They soon fall into a personal feud with the Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne). ![]() Watch Video: Immortan Joe and the War Boys ride in new 'Mad Max'Īt 68, Hugh Keays-Byrne is this summer's most unlikely movie villain.Īs the vicious biker-gang leader Toecutter, he made Mel Gibson's life miserable in George Miller's 1979 action flick Mad Max. MAD MAX MGM Reviewed: Decem1 979 / Color / 2:35 enhanced for 1 6:9. Max gets his revenge, with the Toecutter and his gang being wiped out and no longer a threat to anyone, but Max becomes a drifter, having lost all his friends.
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