Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne (born May 19, 1947 in Srinagar , India ) is an Australian actor .
Life
Keays-Byrne was born in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir as the only son of his British parents. The family moved to the UK when he was a child. He attended school in England and began a career as a theater actor after graduating. Between 1968 and 1972 he had roles in all productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company .
Keays-Byrne got his first television engagement in 1967 in the British series Boy Meets Girl . He moved to Australia when a theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was touring there. 1974 followed after an appearance on the television program Essington larger roles in films such as Stone , Mad Dog , The Trespassers and Snapshot . After starring in the television drama The Death Train in 1978 , Keays-Byrne achieved his most famous role to date: As "Toecutter" in the Australian end-time film Mad Max from 1979, for whose impersonation he won the AACTA Award in the Best Actor in a Supporting category Role was nominated.
In the 1980s he starred in films such as The Chain Reaction , Strikebound , Redwing - Escape from the Black Droids and The Jugger - Fight the Best . In 1992 Keays-Byrne made his directorial debut in the film Resistance , in which he played a role himself. Until the end of the 1990s he played exclusively in television productions.
In 2007, Keays-Byrne was cast by director George Miller for a role in Justice League: Mortal , but the film was later canceled.
Keays-Byrne returned to the Mad Max franchise one more time in 2015 for the film Mad Max: Fury Road as the main antagonist "Immortan Joe".
Web links
- Hugh Keays-Byrne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://theatricalia.com/person/3qp/hugh-keays-byrne
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/hamlet/past_productions/rsc_stage_1970.shtml
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hugh-keaysbyrne-interview-toecutter-is-back--but-as-a-different-villain-in-mad-max- fury-road-10255632.html
- ↑ http://www.aacta.org/winners-nominees/1970-1979/1979.aspx
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keays-Byrne, Hugh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Srinagar , India |