"[9], 2015 prequel comic series of the same name, "Toecutter is back - but as a different villain in Mad Max: Fury Road", "How this actor ended up playing 2 different villains in the 'Mad Max' franchise 36 years apart", "Mad Max: Fury Road - Nux and Immortan Joe #1 Review - IGN", "Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux & Immortan Joe #1 Review", "Behind the Makeup and Costumes of 'Mad Max: Fury Road, "New Trailer for 'Mad Max' Game Introduces Immortan Joe's Latest Offspring", "New Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer Lets the Bad Guys Take the Wheel", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortan_Joe&oldid=981413372, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 04:44. Looking for some great streaming picks? Outside Australia, he is best known for his role as Toad in the 1974 film Stone, the main antagonist Toecutter in the 1979 film Mad Max, the main antagonist "Immortan Joe" in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, and Grunchlk on the science fiction television series Farscape. [7] Vanity Fair's Joanna Robinson described him as "nightmarish" and "a fairly classic Miller creation with a skull fetish even a teenage goth would envy". In the mid- to late 1990s, he did a number of TV roles including in Singapore Sling: Old Flames (1995), Moby Dick (1998) and Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1999). Between 1968 and 1972, he had parts in Royal Shakespeare Company productions including As You Like It, The Balcony, Doctor Faustus, Hamlet, King Lear, The Man of Mode, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest or The Enchanted Island and Troilus and Cressida. He moved to Australia in 1973 and is well-known there as a television and film actor. George Miller's Justice League Mortal Documentary Won't Get Any Support from Warner Bros. In the 2000s, he appeared in the science fiction television series Farscape as Grunchlk, which he reprised for the concluding mini-series Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars. Dargestellt wurde Immortan Joe vom australischen Schauspieler Hugh Keays-Byrne (* 1947), der bereits 1979 im ersten Teil der Mad Max-Reihe, als sadistischer Motorad-Bandenchef Toecutter, den Hauptschurken verkörperte. Those with muscle and ruthlessness (...) ex-jarheads, devildogs with high and tight haircuts, caches of weapons and the will to use them, men in search of something more, a vision of a new world rising from the ashes of the old world. He is a well respected theater, film and TV actor in Australia. His family moved to Britain when he was a young child. [2], His first television acting job was in Britain in the programme Boy Meets Girl in 1967. He moved to Australia in 1973 and is well-known there as a television and film actor. Their leader, the militant Colonel Joe Moore...\" Hugh Keays-Byrne was born in 1947 in Kashmir, India. Keays-Byrne was born in Srinagar, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (part of the British Raj) to British parents. Immortan Joe is the main antagonist of the 2015 Warner Bros. action hit film Mad Max: Fury Road. Immortan Joe also appears in … He was schooled in England and began his career as a stage actor. In the 1980s, he acted in films such as The Chain Reaction (1980), Strikebound (1984), Starship (1985) and The Blood of Heroes (1989).