{"id":360212,"date":"2026-06-05T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/actor-anthony-head-known-for-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-has-died-at-72"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:04:56","slug":"actor-anthony-head-known-for-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-has-died-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/actor-anthony-head-known-for-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-has-died-at-72","title":{"rendered":"Actor Anthony Head, identified for &#8216;Buffy the Vampire Slayer,&#8217; has died at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-headline\">\n<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \"><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">Actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d has died at 72<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">LONDON &#8212; <\/span>Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British actor known for roles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and \u201cTed Lasso,\u2019 has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Head\u2019s daughters told the Press Association news agency that the actor \u201cpassed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The performer became known to British TV audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won\u2019t-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe instant coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He achieved U.S. fame as librarian Rupert Giles in cult-favorite supernatural series \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d which ran from 1997 to 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/actor-anthony-head-buffy-vampire-slayer-died-72-133621793\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d has died at 72 LONDON &#8212; Anthony Head, the suave, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,35502,35501,17534,25637,2789,35503,35504,173],"class_list":["post-360212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-actor","tag-actor-anthony-head","tag-anthony-head","tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer","tag-librarian","tag-london","tag-rupert-giles","tag-ted-lasso","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360214,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360212\/revisions\/360214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}