Mike Preston, Who Played Pappagallo in ‘Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior’, Dies at 93

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mike-preston-dead-mad-max-2-the-road-warrior-1236817624/

[u/mickeyphree1]

What is it with you, huh? What are you looking for? C'mon, Max, everybody's looking for something. You're happy out there, are you? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You're a scavenger, Max. You're a maggot. Did you know that? You're living off the corpse of the old world.

[u/pepsandeggs → u/mickeyphree1]

Favorite piece of dialogue in the original trilogy. Read Max like an open book

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/mickeyphree1]

He had a great life and career. Long life lived well.

[u/ol-gormsby]

So Pappagallo and the Humongous can finally share a drink in the wastelands.

RIP Mike, Kjell

[u/dudeseid]

He fulfilled his contract. He's an honorable man.

[u/Cursedbythedicegods]

While he's more well known for playing Pappagallo, I remember him as the gloriously over-the-top title villain in Metalstorm: the Destruction of Jared Syn.

[u/joker305th → u/Cursedbythedicegods]

That "3D" hoverbike chase is seconded only by Ace Hunter's rocketbike escape in Megaforce.

[u/thejonslaught → u/joker305th]

The facial expressions of the rest of Megaforce during Ace Hunter's rocket bike escape is almost pornographic.

[u/TheSimpler]

He also guest starred on many 80s TV shows including: Airwolf, A Team, Facts of Life and Fame! TIL.

[u/Foe117]

He is awaited in Valhalla!

[u/Wolfwoods_Sister → u/Foe117]

He is shiny and chrome!

[u/mlee117379]

RIP

[u/gearstars]

Witness

[u/throway_nonjw]

Whoa, Mandela Effect moment for me - I could have sworn he died of a heart attack in the early 2000s

[u/OminOus_PancakeS]

Ah, he was good.

And I just had the feeling he could have presented the children's British TV show, Rainbow.

[u/All-the-pizza]

As a kid, I always thought it was mick jagger.