Hugh Keays-Byrne appeared in Mad Max and Fury Highway – the 2015 re-boot

Tributes have been paid to Mad Max star Hugh Keays-Byrne, who has died aged 73.

The late actor performed the villain Toecutter, reverse Mel Gibson, within the 1979 post-apocalyptic, dystopian motion film.

British filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith confirmed on Fb that he had died on Tuesday.

Charlize Theron, who appeared with him within the fourth instalment and 2015 re-boot, Fury Highway, stated he can be “deeply missed”.

“It is superb you had been in a position to play an evil warlord so effectively trigger you had been such a sort, lovely soul,” Theron posted on-line.

RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne



It’s superb you had been in a position to play an evil warlord so effectively trigger you had been such a sort, lovely soul. You may be deeply missed my buddy. pic.twitter.com/kXDhNs5jEU

— Charlize Theron (@CharlizeAfrica) December 2, 2020

Keays-Byrne was born in India to British mother and father and moved to England as a toddler.

A manufacturing of A Midsummer Evening’s Dream took him to Australia in 1973, the place he settled.

After showing within the unique Mad Max, which was made Down Beneath, director George Miller introduced him again for Fury Highway, the place he performed the antagonist Immortan Joe.

In a 2015 interview with The Impartial, he stated he had been “pleasantly stunned” to get the decision once more.

And defined that whereas his unique character, Toecutter, had been a member of an “oppressed nomadic minority”, Immortan Joe was “a renaissance man”.

“He is merely attempting to convey order into an apocalyptic world” stated Keays-Byrne.

‘Beneficiant coronary heart’

Trenchard-Smith, who directed him within the 1975 motion movie, The Man From Hong Kong, known as him “a fantastic actor and an excellent buddy”.

“Hugh had a beneficiant coronary heart, providing a serving to hand to folks in want, or a spot to remain to a homeless teenager,” he posted.

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“He cared about social justice and preserving the atmosphere lengthy earlier than these points turned trendy.”

He added: “His life was ruled by his sense of the oneness of humanity. We’ll miss his instance and his friendship.”

The celebrities of Mad Max: Fury Highway turned out for its HollywoodPremiere in 2015

Keays-Byrne additionally appeared within the 1974 biker film Stone and the 1986 drama, For Love Alone.

The Guardian’s film critic Luke Buckmaster described him as an actor “of visceral, wall-rattling drive and underrated expertise”.

“Each function he took was a revelation,” he wrote.

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