{"id":1512878,"date":"2026-06-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=6e29722337d25b207d681d1b15655018"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:14:39","slug":"buffy-the-vampire-slayer-actor-anthony-head-dies-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512878","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8217; actor Anthony Head dies at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/139d0b0bb962d3bed5191ce091cf6c49.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Anthony Head attends the launch of a new attraction based on the hit BBC One drama series at Warwick Castle on April 13, 2011, in Warwick, Warwickshire. (Tony Woolliscroft\/WireImage via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Anthony Head, the British actor known for his roles in <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> and <em>Ted Lasso<\/em>, has died,&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthony-head-obit-buffy-vampire-lasso-a1c56edf560de048e730a2cf337e4223\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported Friday. He was 72.<\/p><p>His&nbsp;daughters, Emily Head and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that their father died due to complications from pneumonia.<\/p><p>\u201cOur grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them,\u201d Emily Head and Daisy Head said in a statement. \u201cHow lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us.\u201d<\/p><p>Anthony Head was born in London on Feb. 20, 1954. He was predeceased by his longtime partner, animal welfare activist Sarah Fisher, in 2025.<\/p><p>The actor is known for his role as librarian Rupert Giles, who mentored Sarah Michelle Gellar's titular character in the TV series <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer. <\/em>The series&nbsp;ran from 1997 to 2003.<\/p><p>He is also known for playing Rupert Mannion, the ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham's Rebecca, in the Apple TV comedy series <em>Ted Lasso<\/em>.<\/p><p>ABC News has reached out to Anthony Head's representatives for confirmation.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Head attends the launch of a new attraction based on the hit BBC One drama series at Warwick Castle on April 13, 2011, in Warwick, Warwickshire. (Tony Woolliscroft\/WireImage via Getty Images)Anthony Head, the British actor known for his roles i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1512881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/139d0b0bb962d3bed5191ce091cf6c49.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 17:41:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/139d0b0bb962d3bed5191ce091cf6c49.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512882,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512878\/revisions\/1512882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}