Hugh Keays-Byrne, who portrayed Toecutter in Mad Max before returning 36 years later to play another villain for Australian director George Miller, Immortan Joe, in Mad Max: Fury Road, has died.
He was 73. Brian Trenchard-Smith, who directed Keays-Byrne in the 1975 film The Man From Hong Kong (also known as The Dragon Flies), reported that the actor died Wednesday in the hospital.
No other details were immediately available. Keays-Byrne also was known for his turn as the back-stabbing Grunchlk on the Australian American series Farscape and a 2004 miniseries.
Born in Kashmir, India, Keays-Byrne was a theater-trained actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he remained in Australia when a tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by.
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