We regret to announce the death of Hugh Keays-Byrne. The British actor who spent most of his career in Australia was best known for his “Mad Max” movie series. At the time of his death, he was 73 years old.
Australian filmmaker Ted Geoghegan shared the unpleasant news on Tuesday with fans. The cause of the actor’s death has not yet been revealed.
Hugh Keays-Byrne began his acting career in 1967. Initially focused on working in the theater, but also took up roles in television series. In the years 1968-1972 he played in the performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At that time, there were, inter alia, in such classics as Faust , Hamlet and King Lear . In 1973, she traveled to Australia to star in a play Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Peter Brooke. After the end of that tour, the actor decided to stay in the antipodes.
A year later, he appeared in his first film – Stone . In the following years, he played in Australian cinema and television productions. The breakthrough role was the role of the Toecutter antagonist in Mad Max , George Miller. Keays-Byrne’s acquaintance with the director paid off in the later years of his career. Miller invited him to play Martian Manhunter in Justice League: Mortal . It is true that this project never hit the cinemas, but the gentlemen met again on the set. In 2015, the fourth installment of the Mad Max series, entitled On the road, hit theatersanger. There, the actor played another villain – Immortana Joe. Currently, it is with this role that he is best associated. Many people expected that the Furios spinoff would come back to it.
The two parts of Mad Max weren’t the only fanatastic productions in which Hugh Keays-Byrne appeared. In 1989, he starred in another post-apocalyptic film, Blood of the Boaters . He appeared at the side of, among others Rutger Hauer, Delroy Lindo and Vincent D’Onofrio. Ten years later, he starred in the television adaptation of Jules Verne ‘s Journey to the Center of the Earth . Shortly after that, he played Grunchlek in the series Ucieczka w kosmos . This painting was produced by the well-known Jim Henson Company.