FrameThrower · Actors · Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne
3 films · 182 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–2015
Born 18 May 1947 · Kashmir, India · died 2 December 2020
Hugh Keays-Byrne was a British-Australian actor and film director. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was best known for playing the main antagonist in two films from the Mad Max franchise: Toecutter in Mad Max (1979), and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He also played Toad in the 1974 biker film Stone, and Grunchlk on the science fiction series Farscape.
Keays-Byrne was born in Srinagar, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (part of the British Raj then, India now) to British parents; his family returned to Britain when India was partitioned.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 182 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hugh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Hugh takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 182 frames from Hugh Keays-Byrne's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.