Anthony Head

At 70 years old, Anthony Head has this physical status:

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and singer.

He rose to fame in the UK after appearing in the Gold Blend couple's television ads for Nescafé Gold Blend, and as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Uther Pendragon in Merlin, the Prime Minister of Little Britain, and as Herc Shipwright in BBC Radio 4's Cabin Pressure.

Early life

Head was born in Camden Town, London. Seafield Patrick Murray Head (20 August 1919 – 22 March 2009), a documentary filmmaker and a founder of Verity Films, and his mother, actress Helen Shingler, married in 1944 in Watford, and his father was Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head (20 August 1919 – 28 March 2019). Murray Head, his elder brother, is also a singer/singer. Both brothers appeared in the musical Chess at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, with Murray being part of the original cast in 1986, while Anthony was in the final cast in 1989.

Head was educated at Sunbury Grammar School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). In an interview in 2013 about why he chose acting as a career, he said, "If it's in your family, it's a choice." It's not a leap to say, 'I want to act.' When I was six years old, I was in a little show with my mother's help, including the Emperor in The Emperor's New Clothes. "This is the company, this is what I want to do," I remember thinking.

Personal life

Head and his partner, Sarah Fisher, live in Bath, Somerset, England. Emily and Daisy, both of whom are actresses, have two children Emily and Daisy.

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Career

His first appearance was in the musical Godspell; this led to television appearances on both BBC and ITV, one of his earliest appearances being in the film Enemy at the Door (1978–1980). In the 1980s, he sang of the band Red Box. He appeared in a storyline series of twelve coffee commercials with Sharon Maughan for Nescafé Gold Blend in the late 1980s. Taster's Choice, an American brand, was included in a North America version.) He gained notoriety for his soap opera appearance, as well as a role in the children's ITV comedy comedy drama Woof!

In the 1990–91 West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show at London's Piccadilly Theatre, with Craig Ferguson as Brad Majors, Head played Frank N. Furter. Chrysalis Records' version of "Sweet Transvestite" by the head was released as a single on Chrysalis Records in 1991. Head appeared in the summer of 1995 at Duke of York's Theatre, a 3 May 2006 tribute performance at London's Royal Court Theatre, and a 14 October 2000 production at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Following success on the stage and a few brief appearances on American television, including in the short-lived VR.5, led to Rupert Giles' role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997. He worked full-time in the United States from the 1990s to the early 2000s, but his family stayed in the United Kingdom. During Buffy's sixth season, Head joined the regular cast of the show and appeared many times as a guest star throughout the series's run. In several interviews at the time, Head said he left the show to spend more time with his family, despite the fact that he had spent most of the year outside of the United Kingdom, which added up to more than half of his youngest daughter's life.

He appeared in BBC Two television series Manchild, a series starring four friends who are approaching their fifties and trying to re-invent their fading youth and vitality while dealing with life as'mature' men in 2002. He has appeared in many other dramas, including Silent Witness, Murder Investigation Team, and Spooks. In the episode "May the Best Man Win" (Abi's), he appeared in the 4th series of the British hit sitcom My Family in 2003, as one of the main characters' (Abi's) fathers. He appeared on the popular BBC comedy sketch show Little Britain from 2003 to 2005, and he appeared in several episodes of Monarch of the Glen's 2004 series.

He has released Music for Elevators, a collection of songs with musician George Sarah that has been out of television work. He performed on some of the tracks on the Chris de Burgh album The Getaway and the Tempest's "Don't Pay the Ferryman" early in his career.

In 2001, he appeared in a special webcast version of Doctor Who, a tale in which he played the Time Lord Valentine. He also appeared in the Excelis Trilogy, a series of Doctor Who audio adventures produced by Big Finish Productions, and narrated the two-part documentary Project: WHO? for BBC Radio 2 (and later released to CD by BBC Audio in 2006). In an episode of the second series entitled "School Reunion," Mr. Finch appeared as a school's alien headmaster in April 2006. Mike Tucker's Doctor Who book The Nightmare of Black Island abridged audio book was released shortly after. He narrated the third and fourth series of Doctor Who Confidential. In the first ever animated Doctor Who special, "The Infinite Quest," he also voiced Baltazar, Scourge of the Universe (an evil space pirate searching for the Infinite). Head had been auditioning for the role of the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 television movie, but lost to Paul McGann.

In early 2006, he appeared in an episode of Hotel Babylon, a BBC One drama set in a hotel, in which he played a suicidal man who recovers and secures a music contract. Kim Cattrall co-starred him in the same year he filmed a pilot for a new show called Him and Us, loosely based on the life of openly gay rock star Elton John. He appeared as Captain Hook at the Children's Party at the Palace in July, during Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday celebrations. In Destroy All Humans, he described Ponsonby, the MI6 leader, in October 2006. 2.

Joss Whedon said the talks for a 90-minute Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Ripper, were almost complete, with both Head and the BBC on board. In 2007, he played Stockard Channing's gay brother in the English film Sparkle and appeared as Mr. Colubrine in the ITV1 comedy drama Sold. In Persuasion, the head was also known as Sir Walter Elliot. Heroes Unveiled, a head-narrated a BBC behind-the-scenes series for the American television series Heroes Unmasked. In the BBC drama The Invisibles starring Warren Clarke, he has also appeared as Maurice Riley.

Repo! After seeing Anthony Head in the Buffy musical "Once More With Feeling" is on display, Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman cast him in his 21st century rock opera. The Genetic Opera. In an interview shortly before the film's release on November 7, 2008, the head portrays an organ repossessor employed by a fictional dystopian medical company; "Anthony Head was my number one pick for Repo Man from the very beginning." Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton appear in the film as well.

In the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Bleak Expectations, Head has also performed on radio, portraying arch-villain Mr. Gently Benevolent and his descendant, journalist Jeremy Sourquill. He appeared on the radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure from 2011 to 2013 as Hercules Shipwright, a romantic interest for the airline CEO played by Stephanie Cole, and in the show's two-part finale in 2014.

Head was part of the BBC drama series Merlin, which was about the mythical wizard Merlin. The father of Prince Arthur, King Uther Pendragon, was played by Head Uther Pendragon.

Head also did voice-over work for Nintendo Wii's Twisted World, which was also produced by Frozen North Productions. Despite the Falling Snow Award at the 2016 Prague Independent Film Festival, he was nominated for his role in the film. Head was included in the cast of long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers in July 2018, portraying Robin Fairbrother, a descendant of a family with several previous and present links to the Archers themselves.

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