Murray Head

Murray Seafield St George Head (born 5 March 1946) is an English actor and singer. Head has appeared in a number of films, including a starring role as the character Bob Elkin in the Oscar-nominated 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday. As a musician, he is most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" (from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar) and "One Night in Bangkok" (the 1984 single from the musical Chess, which topped the charts in various countries), and for his 1975 album Say It Ain't So. He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music, perform concerts, and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor. Head was born in London to Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head (20 August 1919 – 22 March 2009) and Helen Shingler (29 August 1919 − 8 October 2019). Head's father was a documentary filmmaker for Verity Films. Head's mother played Mme Maigret alongside Rupert Davies in the BBC 1960s television adaptation of the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon. Head's younger brother Anthony Head is also an actor, best known for playing Rupert Giles in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Head was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London and Hampton School in Hampton, Middlesex. He attended Chiswick Polytechnic (A level college) in the early 1960s. Head began writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London-based recording contract. He briefly appeared as one of the hosts of the Bristol-based television pop show Now! alongside Michael Palin. He had limited success, until asked by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original concept album version of Jesus Christ Superstar; at the time, he had been appearing in the West End production of the musical Hair. With the Trinidad Singers, the song "Superstar" peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971. He made his film debut in The Family Way (1966), which featured Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and John Mills in the leading roles. Head won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated film Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Despite these successes, he received little public attention in the next ten years (except for his single release, "Say It Ain't So, Joe" in 1975, which has been covered by The Who's lead vocalist, Roger Daltrey, among others, including The Hollies). "Never Even Thought" has been covered by both Colin Blunstone and Cliff Richard. In 1973, he appeared in a radio drama, The Fourth Tower of Inverness. In 1979, Head appeared in the miniseries Prince Regent and the final episode of the ITV program Return of the Saint. ... Source: Article "Murray Head" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1946-03-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Family Way	Geoffrey Fitton	67
2	1967	Two Weeks in September	Dickinson's Assistant	50
3	1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Bob Elkin	66
4	1972	La Mandarine	Antony 'Tony' Bellay-Vanguard	47
5	1973	Gawain and the Green Knight	Gawain	46
6	1974	Taking Leave	Barbara Allen Singer (voice only)	0
7	1975	El poder del deseo	Javier	60
8	1977	Madame Claude	David Evans	49
9	1984	Magasinet Special: Chess 1984	Self	0
10	1987	White Mischief	Lizzie	60
11	1989	The Savage	Michael	10
12	1989	Stormy Summer	Jack	10
13	1989	Chess in Concert	Freddie	100
14	1996	Beaumarchais the Scoundrel	Lord Rochford	66
15	1999	The Big Snake of the World	Tom	50
16	2002	Lovers of the Nile	Le colonel	40
17	2002	Cindy	Ronan	60
18	2003	I, Cesar	Mr. Fitzpatrick	55
19	2004	D-Day 6.6.1944	Robert Douin	71
20	2009	No Pasaran	Peter Konchelsky	50
21	2014	Horsehead	Jim	53

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Shirley's World		50
2	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
3	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
4	1978	Return of the Saint	Pierre	70
5	1981	Six Fifty-Five Special	Self	0
6	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
7	1983	Bei Bio	Self	0
8	1986	Casualty	Billy Cooper	61
9	1987	40° à l'ombre	Self	60
10	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
11	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
12	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
13	1990	Centrepoint	Nick Wareing	60
14	1992	Heartbeat	Jack Hollins	71
15	1999	The Vice	Tommy Roker	60
16	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
17	2001	Judge John Deed	Judge Previn	66
18	2003	Rosemary & Thyme	Nev Connolly	74
19	2009	En direct de l'univers	Self	10
20	2011	Vera	Peter Calvert	74
21	2019	War of the Worlds	Mikel	73

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