Anthony Head
Biography
Anthony Head was an English actor and singer who became a familiar face on British television before finding a wide following playing Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in Camden Town, London, he grew up around performers, studied acting at LAMDA and made his television debut in Enemy at the Door. In the 1980s, the Gold Blend coffee commercials made him famous in the UK, and he played Frank N. Furter in a West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show. He later appeared as the prime minister in Little Britain, Uther Pendragon in Merlin and Rupert Mannion in Ted Lasso, and his films included Persuasion (2007), Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013). He was nominated for a Monte-Carlo TV Festival award for Persuasion and shared a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination for Ted Lasso. He also did extensive radio and voice work, including Cabin Pressure, and died in 2026.
72years old at death
- Born Camden Town
- Died
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Anthony Stewart Head
Movie Career
- Films
- 22
- Career span
- 37 years1987 to 2024
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A role that slipped away
In 1997 Head took the part of Adam Klaus, the arrogant magician in Jonathan Creek, but he was in the pilot episode only, since he then departed to play Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A role that slipped away
Head tried out for the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 television film, but Paul McGann got the part instead. He also voiced Baltazar, Scourge of the Universe, in the first animated Doctor Who special, The Infinite Quest.
Big break
Darren Lynn Bousman, who directed Saw, saw Anthony Head in the Buffy musical episode "Once More With Feeling" and then cast him in Repo! The Genetic Opera, his rock opera, where Head plays an organ repossessor.
Beyond film
In the 1990 to 1991 West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show, staged at London's Piccadilly Theatre, Head took the role of Frank N. Furter. Chrysalis Records put out his version of "Sweet Transvestite" as a single in 1991.
Big break
In the late 1980s, Head became better known for playing the man in the Gold Blend couple, a series of coffee commercials for Nescafé Gold Blend, with Sharon Maughan, running from 1987 to 1993.
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Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
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Films together
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Box office
What Anthony Head's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$560 million
9 of the 22 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 22 films: 9 worldwide figure; 5 never in cinemas; 8 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 5Never in cinemas
- 8Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$200M35.7% of the total
- 2$133M23.7% of the total
- 3$116M20.7% of the total
- 4$89M15.9% of the total
- 5$18M3.2% of the total
- 6$2.5M0.4% of the total
- 7$1.4M0.3% of the total
- 8$913K0.2% of the total
$198,883from the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total