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Hugh Keays-Byrne

Actor

Born - 18 May 1947, Srinigar, Kashmir, India
Died - 1 December 2020

Tall, menacing, throaty, Australia-based actor with tight, intense features and a shock of often long hair. After TV experience, he began a screen career in the mid 1970s, co-starring in two 'Mad Max' films and appearing in some of Australia's most widely-seen movies: Stone (1974), The Dragon Flies (1975), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Blue Fin (1978), Mad Max (1979), Chain Reaction (1980), Going Down (1982), Ginger Meggs (1982), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), Burke & Wills (1985), the title role in Kangaroo (1986), Les Patterson Saves the World (1987), The Blood of Heroes (1989), Resistance (1992), Asian Connection (1995), Huntsman 5.1 (1999), Sleeping Beauty (2011) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), his last.