His daughters say he passed away due to complications from pneumonia
Ted LassoHead’s daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the actor passed away due to complications from pneumonia. The stage and TV performer became well known to British audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won’t-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee.
The ads were later re-shot for a U.S. audience for Taster’s Choice. Head achieved U.S. fame as librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the title character in the cult-favorite supernatural seriesHe most recently played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham’s character Rebecca, in“Our 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,” his daughters said.
“How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us. ” Head was born in London on Feb. 20, 1954 to Seafield Head, a documentary filmmaker, and Helen Shingler, an actor. His older brother, Murray, is also an actor.
Other notable roles included playing Geoffrey Howe, the deputy to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep, in the Oscar-winning, as well as King Uther Pendragon, the father of Prince Arthur, in the
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