Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76

According to Boing Boing, Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish actor who played the menacing masked warlord Lord Humungus in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, has died at the age of seventy-six. Boing Boing notes that the 1981 film remains one of the most culturally influential movies ever made, its fingerprints visible across the video games, books, and films that have chased its distinctive blend of dread and spectacle ever since.

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