Hugh Keays-Byrne

 

Hugh Keays-Byrne became popular for playing the main villain in the Mad Max movie franchise. But late last year, December 1, Toecutter left his fans shocked when Director Brian Trenchard-Smith wrote on a Facebook post that the actor passed away at 73.

Hugh was born on May 18, 1947, in Srinagar, Jammu, and Kashmir, British Raj in India. In 1973. He hired a moving company and relocated to Australia to become a film and TV actor there. His roles were mostly that of antagonists. Aside from embodying Toecutter in Mad Max, he was cast again as Immortan Joe for Mad Max: Fury Road, where he was nominated as Best Villain in the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. The former grossed $8,750,000 in domestic revenue despite its paltry $200,000 budget, while the latter made $368.2 million worldwide with its production budget of $150 million. Rest in peace, Hugh.

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