Anthony Head, the British actor beloved for his position as Keeper Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, died Friday on the age of 72 in England from problems from pneumonia, his household introduced.
His daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, introduced the loss of life in an announcement to the Press Affiliation, saying he handed away peacefully surrounded by his household. They spoke of the privilege of being his daughter and witnessing the affect his work had on so many individuals all through his decades-long profession. The sisters added that his legacy will reside on within the reveals he starred in and the audiences who liked them.
Head gained widespread fame as Giles, the bookish however steely faculty librarian who mentored Sarah Michelle Gellar’s title character all through seven seasons of the cult Supernatural collection, which ran from 1997 to 2003. He appeared in 121 episodes and later lent his voice to 2 Buffy video video games and a Buffyverse podcast.
Geller paid his respects on Instagram, thanking his household for sharing who he was with the world.
Head was born in London on February 20, 1954, the son of documentary filmmaker Seafield Head and actor Helen Shingler. His older brother is singer and actor Murray Head. He skilled on the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) and first turned identified to British audiences within the Eighties with a long-running collection of adverts for Nescafé Espresso.
His subsequent credit embody the sketch comedy Little Britain, the position of King Uther Pendragon within the BBC fantasy drama Merlin, and the movies The Iron Woman and The Inbetweeners Film. In recent times, he performed Rupert Mannion, a womanizing soccer membership proprietor, within the Apple TV comedy Ted Lasso from 2020 to 2023.
The loss of life follows the sudden loss of life of his longtime associate, animal rights activist Sarah Fisher, in 2025 on the age of 61. His former Buffy co-stars Nicholas Brendon and Robin Sacks have additionally handed away lately.
