Hugh Keays-Byrne
Also Known As: هیو کیز-برن
Biography: Hugh Keays-Byrne (May 18, 1947 – December 2, 2020) was a British-Australian actor and film director. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was best known for playing the main antagonist in two films from the Mad Max franchise: Toecutter in Mad Max (1979), and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He also played Toad in the 1974 biker film Stone, and Grunchlk on the science fiction series Farscape. Keays-Byrne was born in Srinagar, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (part of the British Raj then, India now) to British parents; his family returned to Britain when India was partitioned. He began his career as a stage actor. Keays-Byrne made his first television appearance in 1967 on the British television programme Boy Meets Girl. He was part of Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which toured Australia in 1973. Keays-Byrne decided to remain in Australia after the tour ended. In 1974, he acted in the TV movie Essington, then made his first film appearance in the motorcycle picture Stone (1974). This was followed by supporting roles in films like The Man from Hong Kong (1975), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Trespassers (1976) and Snapshot (1979). After his first starring role in the 1978 TV movie Death Train, Keays-Byrne was cast as the violent gang leader Toecutter in Mad Max (1979). Director George Miller had Keays-Byrne and the other actors for the gang travel from Sydney to Melbourne in a group on motorcycles, as there was no money for airplane tickets. In an early international print of the film, Keays-Byrne was dubbed with a bad American accent, which Miller later regretted. Keays-Byrne then continued to act in post-apocalyptic and science fiction films like The Chain Reaction (1980), Strikebound (1984), Starship (1985) and The Blood of Heroes (1989). In 1992, he made his directorial debut and acted in the film Resistance. He also appeared in TV miniseries adaptations of Moby Dick (1998) and Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1999). Keays-Byrne played Grunchlk in the science fiction television series Farscape (1999–2003) and its conclusion Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004). George Miller also cast him as the Martian Manhunter in the planned 2009 movie Justice League: Mortal. Keays-Byrne returned to the Mad Max franchise in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road as the main villain Immortan Joe. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning 6, and Keays-Byrne was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Keays-Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kashmir, India
Birthday: May 18, 1947
Deathday: December 02, 2020
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Gender: Male
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The Man from Hong Kong
Overview: Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-31
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Mad Max
Overview: In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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Stone
Overview: After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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The Chain Reaction
Overview: Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Blue Fin
Overview: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Lorca and the Outlaws
Overview: Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-13
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Snapshot
Overview: A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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Strikebound
Overview: Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Burke & Wills
Overview: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-30
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Seven Friends: George Miller’s Justice League
Overview: Documentary chronicling director George Miller's unmade 2008 superhero movie Justice League Mortal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Les Patterson Saves the World
Overview: Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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The Trespassers
Overview: In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-18
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Polly My Love
Overview: An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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For Love Alone
Overview: Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-22
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The Death Train
Overview: An insurance investigator comes to a small town to investigate the death of a man insured by his company. The local residents believe his death was caused by his being run over by a ghost train. However, the investigator is sure there is a more rational explanation...
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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Barnaby and Me
Overview: Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-08
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Overview: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-13
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Dadah Is Death
Overview: On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-23
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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The Blood of Heroes
Overview: Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-19
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Voyage au centre de la terre
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Overview: The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Going Down
Overview: Karli's over the Sydney scene and its small-pond bohemian excesses. That's why she's moving to New York City in the morning. But over the course of one unforgettable night, Karli's best friends will show her that a little Sydney goes a long way .
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Badlands 2005
Overview: In 1995, a severe drought forced Americans to flee the West for the cities. Water became more precious than gold. Now in 2005, settlers are coming back, meeting new challenges, and age-old adversaries. A U.S. Marshal and his cyborg partner patrol the American West. A hard-as-nails female boss heads two U.S. Marshals (one human, one bionic) in Badlands 2005, a concept where the near future sees water as a more precious commodity than gold. The West of America has been deserted after droughts a decade earlier, and now a re-population program is underway.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-29
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Kangaroo
Overview: A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
Overview: For 20 years director George Miller fought to unleash the ultimate Mad Max movie - Mad Max: Fury Road. Witness George's journey from the dream of a female warrior to the harsh plains of the Namibian desert to statues of gold in Hollywood, California.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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The Madness of Max
Overview: The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is without a doubt the last word on Mad Max (1979).Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how Mad Max was made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Resistance
Overview: Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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