1. Murray Seafield St George Head was born on 5 March 1946 and is an English actor and singer.
20 Facts About Murray Head
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Murray Head 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.
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Murray Head's mother played Mme Maigret alongside Rupert Davies in the BBC 1960s television adaptation of the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon.
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Murray Head's younger brother Anthony Murray Head is an actor, who played the role of Rupert Giles in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Murray Head was educated at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London and Hampton School in Hampton, Middlesex.
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Murray Head attended Chiswick Polytechnic in the early 1960s.
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Murray Head began writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London-based recording contract.
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Murray Head 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.
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Murray Head made his film debut in The Family Way, which featured Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and John Mills in the leading roles.
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Murray Head won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated film Sunday Bloody Sunday, alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson.
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In 1979, Murray Head appeared in the miniseries Prince Regent and the final episode of the ITV program Return of the Saint.
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Murray Head reappeared in the spotlight in 1984 as the American on the concept album for the musical Chess.
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Murray Head performed the role of world chess champion Frederick "Freddie" Trumper in the London West End stage production of Chess that premiered on 14 May 1986.
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In 1999, Murray Head co-wrote the screenplay to Les Enfants du Siecle.
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Murray Head has appeared on television in the UK on The Bill, Casualty, North Square and Judge John Deed.
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Murray Head played artist Jack Hollins, love interest of Gina Ward, on ITV's Heartbeat from 2005 to 2006.
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On 15 March 2010 he appeared in the BBC drama Doctors playing a pop singer, Pete Perry, trying to make a comeback, in which Murray Head sang Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".
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Murray Head appeared in Doctors again on 18 April 2019 as a different character, a drummer named Brian 'Sticky' Burns.
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Murray Head married Susan Ellis Jones in 1972; they divorced in 1992.
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Murray Head married Lindy Ross on 14 February 2019.