{"id":60694,"date":"2020-12-03T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=60694"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:39:30","slug":"vale-hugh-keays-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2020\/12\/03\/vale-hugh-keays-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Hugh Keays-Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indian born British-Australian actor Hugh Keays-Byrne has passed away aged 73.<\/p>\n

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Mr Keays-Byrne is perhaps best remembered for his roles in George Miller’s Mad Max<\/em> franchise, playing villains Toecutter in the original 1979 classic an Immortan Joe in the recent Mad Max Fury Road<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n

He had a varied career throughout Australian cinema, however, with early appearances in The Man From Hong Kong<\/em> (1975), and 1978’s Blue Fin<\/em>, based on the Colin Thiele novel about a young boy who befriends a trio of pelicans, as well as Ginger Meggs<\/em> (1982), which was based on the classic Australian comic-strip character.<\/p>\n

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Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe in MAD MAX FURY ROAD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 1980’s were his most productive years, appearing in Strikebound<\/em> (1984), Burke & Wills<\/em> (1985), Kangaroo<\/em> (1987), and Les Patterson Saves The World<\/em> (1987), while he co-directed and appeared in 1992’s low-budget sci-fi offering Resistance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On television, he had a regular role on Farscape<\/em> as Grunchlk, appearing in both the television series and the 2004 miniseries The Peacekeeper Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hugh Keays-Bryne passed away on December 1st, and is survived by his partner Christina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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