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In the 1981 post-apocalyptic science fiction action film Mad Max 2 (also known as Mad Max: The Road Warrior), he played the main antagonist "Lord Humungus", the leader of a gang of marauders that besiege a settler compound in the Australian wastelands.
Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show Get This with Tony Martin on Triple M. [13] Sampson was a founding member of The Forbidden Fruit, an experimental troupe whose only performance was a risque interpretation of Mad Max 2 they performed on late night radio, in which Angus played The Lord Humongous, who turned out to be quite proficient with the jazz flute.
Lord Humongous is a professional wrestling character also known as a "gimmick" that was originally introduced in Memphis' Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) in 1984. The character was based on a gang leader called "the Humungus" or at times "Lord Humungus" from the 1981 movie Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. The original Lord Humongous was ...
Despite making more than its predecessor, however, Mad Max 2 never held that record, because Gallipoli was released earlier in 1981 and grossed A$11.7 million in Australia. [24] In the United States, with a gross of US$23.6 million [25] [3] and theatrical rentals of $11 million, [4] the film also outperformed Mad Max.
Minty played The Feral Kid, a feral child in the 1981 film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. As an actor, he had no lines in the film. After Mad Max 2, he had minor parts in Fluteman (1982) and in The Winds of Jarrah (1983). In 1990 he appeared in a few episodes of A Country Practice. [1]
Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy Stork. [3]Spence's best known film role is as the gyrocopter pilot in Mad Max 2 (1981). [3] [4] He also played the lead role in Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) [3] and portrayed Jedediah the pilot in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
In Mad Max 2, set about three years after the first film, Max wanders the wasteland of the outback in his battle-scarred Pursuit Special. He runs out of petrol and seeks refuge with a human settlement manning a remote oil drilling station and refinery, which is besieged by Lord Humungus and his horde of marauding bikers.
Decades later, he played another villain in the series, Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road. [1] Over the course of his career, Keays-Byrne was nominated for an AACTA Award and won a Logie Award for his performance in the television drama Rush. The 2024 prequel to Fury Road, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is dedicated to his memory.