History Creator / AnthonyHead

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm fortunate because people can't [[TypeCasting put a label on me]], which I embrace wholeheartedly."'']]

* 2006 -- ''Series/DoctorWho'' as [[Characters/DoctorWhoVillains Mr. Finch/Brother Lassar]]

''[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm fortunate because people can't [[TypeCasting put a label on me]], which I embrace wholeheartedly."]]''

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954 in Camden town, London) is a British actor best known as his role as Rupert Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and more recently as King Uther in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''. He also had a short role as Will's terrible dad in ''Film/TheInBetweeners'' (which his eldest daughter also starred in).

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954 in Camden town, London) is a British actor best known as his role as Rupert Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and more recently as King Uther in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''. He also had a short role as Will's terrible dad in ''Film/TheInBetweeners''.

He also has released several albums (''Music for Elevators'' in 2002, and ''Staring At The Sun'' in 2014), played Nathan in the RockOpera ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' and served up glorious sides of [[LargeHam ham]] as the [[EvilIsHammy evil guardian]] Mr Gently Benevolent in [[Creator/TheBBC Radio 4]]'s ''Radio/BleakExpectations''. He also played Michael the Prime Minister in sketch show ''Series/LittleBritain'' ("It's [[LampshadeHanging not the real prime minister]] of course, it's just [[ActorAllusion that bloke from Buffy]]"). Throughout the early 2000s he was a perennial fan suggestion as the actor who should be cast as the Doctor if ''Series/DoctorWho'' were revived. When it was, he appeared in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]] as VillainOfTheWeek, Mr. Lucas Finch. In the wider ''Who'' franchise he played LargeHam Grayvorn in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' Excelis story arc, and [[RuleOfThree another villain]] as the voice of SpacePirate Balthasar in the animated story ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest The Infinite Quest]].'' He occasionally turns up in ''Radio/CabinPressure'' as [[Creator/RogerAllam Douglas]]'s old friend Herc Shipwright. More recently, he played the MadScientist Paracelsus in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', obsessed with immortality. Before he was famous he was also in an episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', sadly not as an Immortal, however.

** He also played Mr. Vandemar in the radio adaptation of ''{{Literature/Neverwhere}}''. To clarify, Mr. Vandemar is an assassin generally considered one of the most terrifying things in existence, whose least creepy trait is his taste for antique porcelain. He eats it.

* He also played Mr. Vandemar in the radio adaptation of ''{{Literature/Neverwhere}}''. To clarify, Mr. Vandemar is an assassin generally considered one of the most terrifying things in existence, whose least creepy trait is his taste for antique porcelain. He eats it.

** He auditioned for the part of Commander Sisko in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' before the casting of [[Literature/{{Spenser}} Avery Brooks]].

Oh, and he played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in some performances of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.

''[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm fortunate because people [[TypeCasting can't put a label on me]], which I embrace wholeheartedly."]]''