LONDON — Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British histrion known for roles successful “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died, his household said Friday. He was 72.
Head’s daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association quality bureau that the histrion passed distant owed to complications from pneumonia.
The performer became known to British TV audiences successful the 1980s arsenic 1 fractional of a will-they, won’t-they romanticist mates successful a bid of ads for Nescafe instant coffee.
Head achieved U.S. fame arsenic librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the rubric quality successful the cult-favorite supernatural bid “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which ran from 1997 to 2003.
He astir precocious played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham’s quality Rebecca, successful “Ted Lasso.”
“Our grief is acold greater than the spread helium has near behind, but we cognize his bequest volition unrecorded on, successful the shows helium was a portion of, and successful the audiences that emotion them,” his daughters said. “How fortunate we are to cognize we are capable to ticker him doing what helium loved, adjacent erstwhile helium is nary longer with us.”
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