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Murray Head

Murray Head

Actor · b. 1946 · London, England, UK

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.

Series23

  • TV6.2

    Casualty

    1986 · 88 votes

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV7.4

    Vera

    2011 · 179 votes

  • TV7.1

    Heartbeat

    1992 · 34 votes

  • TV4.0

    Bonsoir bonsoir!

    2019 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0

    Midi Première

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV
  • TV7.8

    Taratata

    1993 · 5 votes

  • TV6.1

    Nulle part ailleurs

    1987 · 8 votes

  • TV1.0

    En direct de l'univers

    2009 · 1 votes

  • TV7.5

    Where Are They Now?

    1999 · 2 votes

  • TV5.6

    The Vice

    1999 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    War of the Worlds

    2019 · 940 votes

  • TV7.0

    Return of the Saint

    1978 · 10 votes

  • TV6.8

    Judge John Deed

    2001 · 13 votes

  • TV7.4

    Rosemary & Thyme

    2003 · 31 votes

  • TV
  • TV6.0

    Shirley's World

    1972 · 4 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.0

    The Fortunes of Nigel

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV6.7

    Centrepoint

    1990 · 3 votes

Movies21

  • Movie6.1

    White Mischief

    1987 · 63 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Madame Claude

    1977 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    1971 · 144 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Moi César, 10 ans 1/2, 1,39 m

    I, Cesar

    2003 · 207 votes

  • Movie7.1

    D-Day 6.6.1944

    2004 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.0

    À cœur joie

    Two Weeks in September

    1967 · 14 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.3

    Horsehead

    2014 · 110 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Les Amants du Nil

    Lovers of the Nile

    2002 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Family Way

    1966 · 33 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Un été d'orages

    Stormy Summer

    1989 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.0
  • Movie8.0

    Chess Moves

    1985 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Beaumarchais, l'insolent

    Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

    1996 · 77 votes

  • Movie5.0

    No Pasaran

    2009 · 5 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Chess in Concert

    1989 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Le grand serpent du Monde

    The Big Snake of the World

    1999 · 3 votes

  • Movie8.0

    El poder del deseo

    1975 · 2 votes

  • Movie3.7

    La barbare

    The Savage

    1989 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.8

    La Mandarine

    1972 · 16 votes

  • Movie