{"id":717222,"date":"2026-06-05T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:24:08","slug":"anthony-head-dead-buffy-and-ted-lasso-star-was-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717222\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Head Dead: ‘Buffy’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ Star Was 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnthony Head<\/a>, the British actor best known for his roles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d has died. He was 72.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis daughters Emily and Daisy Head announced his death in a statement to the BBC, saying their father \u201cpassed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHead played Rupert Giles \u2014 the Watcher and father figure of the Slayer Buffy Summers \u2014 on all seven seasons of \u201cBuffy\u201d alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar. On \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d he played Rupert Mannion, the grumpy former owner of AFC Richmond who cedes ownership of the club to his wife, played by Hannah Waddingham, during their divorce.<\/p>\n

\n\tHead\u2019s other credits include playing the Prime Minister in the sketch comedy series \u201cLittle Britain\u201d and Uther Pendragon in the fantasy adventure program \u201cMerlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile he was mostly recognized for his work on television, Head began his career in the theater, acting in the musical \u201cGodspell\u201d in the late 1970s. He\u2019d go on to perform in productions of \u201cChess,\u201d \u201cPeter Pan\u201d and \u201cRocky Horror Show Live.\u201d Before he broke out on screen, Head gained recognition in the U.K. as the star of a series of Nescaf\u00e9 commercials that ran from 1987 to 1993. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many,\u201d Emily and Daisy wrote in their statement. \u201cWe know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in \u2014\u00a0he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Head, the British actor best known for his roles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[259680,49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-717222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-anthony-head","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}