Playing Immortan Joe in Fury Road brought Keays-Byrne’s career full circle, as he’d previously played the evil gang leader Toecutter in Miller’s original Mad Max.
Hugh Keays-Byrne is best known in America as Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road — but even many fans of that film don’t realize Keays-Byrne also played the villain in the original Mad Max from 1979.
Keays-Byrne was born in India to English parents who moved back home to England when Keays-Byrne was still a boy.
There he was the terrifying Toecutter, the leader of the gang who terrorizes Max and his family.