Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Head as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Born	February 20, 1954 (age 52) Camden Town, London
Height	6' 1" (1.85 m)
Official site	Official Website
Notable roles	Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) James (Manchild) Prime Minister (Little Britain)

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and films. He is most widely known for his role as Rupert Giles in the American television drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for the role of Dr. Frank N Furter in the London revival of The Rocky Horror Show and for a series of coffee commercials in the United Kingdom and the U.S. In the UK, outside of Buffy, he is more commonly credited simply as Anthony Head, or occasionally Tony Head. Image File history File linksMetadata Rupert_Giles. ... Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American cult television series that aired from March 10, 1997, until May 20, 2003. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England_(bordered). ... Camden Town is a place in the London Borough of Camden, England. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American cult television series that aired from March 10, 1997, until May 20, 2003. ... Manchild is a British television comedy / drama series that ran for two seasons of seven fifty-minute episodes each on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American cult television series that aired from March 10, 1997, until May 20, 2003. ... The Rocky Horror Show is a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ... A cup of coffee // Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. ... Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Advertising is drawing public attention to goods and services by promois performed through a variety of media. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ...

Biography

Head was born in Camden Town, London. His father was Seafield Head, the founder of Verity Films, and his mother was the actress Helen Shingler. His older brother is actor and singer Murray Head. Both brothers played the part of Freddy Trumper in the musical Chess at the Prince Edward Theatre, London, with Murray a part of the original cast in 1986, whilst Anthony was in the final cast in 1989. Camden Town is a place in the London Borough of Camden, England. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Murray Head on the cover of his album Passion. ... Björn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice and Benny Andersson, the creators of Chess Chess is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two players in a world chess championship, and a woman... The Prince Edward Theatre is a theatre situated on Old Compton Street, just north of Leicester Square in the West End of London. ...

Head was educated at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). His first role was in the musical Godspell; this led to roles in television on both BBC and ITV, one of his earliest being an appearance in the series Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980). In the late 1980s, he appeared in a series of twelve coffee commercials with Sharon Maughan for Nescafé Gold Blend (re-edited to include brand name Taster's Choice in the US), which brought him wider recognition, along with a part in the Children's ITV comedy drama Woof!. Main LAMDA building on Talgarth Road The MacOwan Theatre The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), founded 1861, is a leading British drama school in west London. ... Godspell album cover (1971 Original Off-Broadway Cast) Godspell is a musical based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, transposed into a contemporary urban setting, with music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John-Michael Tebelak. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German military occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. ... Sharon Maughan (born 22 June 1951), is a British television actress. ... Nescafé is a popular brand of instant coffee made by Nestlé. In Hebrew, Nescafé (נסקפה) means miracle coffee, possibly a reference to the short time it takes to prepare but the Nestlé website states the name is just a portmanteau of the words Nestlé and café. Nestlés prized powdered coffee... Tasters Choice is a coffee brand. ... CITV Logo This article is about ITVs childrens television brand. ... Woof! was a Childrens ITV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who turns into a dog. ...

Success on the stage and a number of brief appearances on American television, such as in the short-lived VR-5, led to accepting the role of Rupert Giles in Buffy in 1997. For this role he lived full-time in the United States during the late 1990s and early 2000s, although his family continued to live in the UK. Head left the regular cast of Buffy during the show's sixth season and subsequently appeared several times as a guest star. In many interviews at the time, Head said he left the show in order to spend more time with his family having realised that he had spent most of the year outside of England for more than half his youngest daughter's life. He now lives in Bath, England with Sarah Fisher. They have two children, Emily Rose, 17, and Daisy, 15. An Americian television programme running from 1995-03-10 to 1995-05-12 on FOX before it was cancelled. ... Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... For other uses, see Bath (disambiguation). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ...

In 2002, he co-starred in the BBC Two television series Manchild, concerning four fifty-something men who spend all of their time talking about sex. He also appeared in guest roles in various other dramas, such as Silent Witness, Murder Investigation Team, and Spooks. He featured as the Prime Minister in popular BBC comedy sketch show Little Britain from 2003 to 2005, and guest starred in several episodes of the 2004 series of popular drama Monarch of the Glen. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and Europes first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ... Manchild is a British television comedy / drama series that ran for two seasons of seven fifty-minute episodes each on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003. ... Silent Witness is a long-running British television thriller series made by the BBCs in-house Drama Serials production department, and screened on the BBC One channel. ... Also known as a Major Investigation Team and abbreviated to MIT. Murder Investigation Teams are the specialised homicide squads of Londons Metropolitan Police Service. ... Spooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Monarch of the Glen is also the name of a painting by Edwin Henry Landseer Monarch of the Glen was a Scottish television drama, produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and transmitted on the BBC One network in the UK. The series premiered in 2000, and its seventh and...

Outside of television work, he has released an album of songs with musician George Sarah entitled Music for Elevators. Early in his career he provided vocals for some of the tracks on the Chris de Burgh album The Getaway and the reading from The Tempest on Don't Pay The Ferryman. An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... The Beautiful Dreams album cover. ... Miranda and Ferdinand, Angelica Kauffmann, 1782 The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. ...

Anthony Head playing Mr Finch from the episode School Reunion from Doctor Who

In 2001, he appeared in a special webcast version of the popular British science fiction series Doctor Who, a story called Death Comes to Time, in which he played the Time Lord Valentine. He also guest starred in the Excelis Trilogy, a series of Doctor Who audio adventures produced by Big Finish Productions, and in 2005 narrated the two-part documentary Regeneration, detailing the television revival of the series, for BBC Radio 2. In April 2006 he appeared as an alien school headmaster, Mr. Finch, in an episode of the 2006 season of the Tenth Doctor's adventures entitled School Reunion. Image File history File links Anthony_head_mr_finch. ... Image File history File links Anthony_head_mr_finch. ... School Reunion is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The word webcast is derived from web and broadcast. Its use has varied since the early-mid 1990s as the nature of the medium came into public use. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Death Comes to Time is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001. ... This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... Excelis Rising is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Western House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... School Reunion is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

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 lands a music deal. The same year he filmed a pilot for a new show entitled Him and Us, loosely based on the life of openly gay rock star Elton John, for American TV channel ABC, co-starring Kim Cattrall. In July he appeared as Captain Hook at the Children's Party at the Palace, a live pantomime staged in the grounds of Buckingham Palace as part of Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday celebrations. In October 2006, he voiced Ponsonby, leader of M16, in Destroy All Humans! 2 Hotel Babylon is a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous, first shown in January 2006. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John, CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... As Samantha Jones in Sex and the City Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956) is an Anglo-Canadian actress. ... Captain Hook as seen in the Disney version of Peter Pan. ... The Childrens Party at the Palace was an event held at Buckingham Palace on June 25, 2006 in honour of the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. The event, which had the theme British childrens literature, was attended by 2,000 children and 1,000 adults[1] who... It has been suggested that The British Pantomime be merged into this article or section. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Destroy All Humans! 2, known as Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love in Europe is a video game and sequel to Destroy All Humans!. It was released on October 18, 2006 in North America. ...

He is a supporter of Cats Protection. Cats Protection, formerly the Cats Protection League, is a UK charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming stray or homeless cats. ...

Future work

There is persistent talk of Head starring in a Buffy spin-off series for the BBC entitled Ripper, but so far nothing has come of this. Joss Whedon said of the project in 2005: "it's something I really want to get off the ground, but the ground is kinda sticky." xzc vcxv fbfbcvbnvjcunbucvxnbucvjxnbuvcnbuvcxbucivbhudifb f x cxzcvx fvffdbdggfghgfhgyj a 3445 y65y erg fdhghmhjm re srfg nvge n gfdfg hgmgfgfdghrtf t5egfjhfg gfnb bfg gfgf y5e5redwengh ggf hmhgmnyfdt gf hyrthf gnfgnbfgsd mjh re we ytj t yhr tshs dj hg jdgj dg je suck vbgfhdh gfhfgdhf dhgdhg ghgfhgg fghgfgf g gfggf gfg gfgfd... Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. ...

He is also appearing as Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion[1].

His website recently announced that he will have a role in the Sweeney Todd (2007 film). His part has not been officially announced. Sweeney Todd is a film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical. ...

Filmography

To be added

Singles

• Sweet Transvestite (Chrysalis Records)

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External links

• Official website
• Interview with Anthony Head (April 2006)
• Anthony Stewart Head at the Internet Movie Database
• Biographies of Giles and Head at "Buffyguide"
• Coming soon New Anthony Head site
• Tweedy Book Guy Anthony Head Fansite