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Kjell Nilsson is known for:

  • Mad Max 2
    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
  • Fish Out of Water
    The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character
  • Hard Knuckle
    A Post-apocalypse thriller about snooker

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Biography

Kjell Nilsson (born 19 December 1949) is a Swedish olympic-class weight lifter and actor. His best known role is his 1981 portrayal of "The Humungus," the leader of the marauding wasteland gang in Mad Max 2.