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Murray Seafield Saint George Head (born March 5, 1946) is a British actor and singer.
He was born in London, his parents being Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Stewart Head.
Head began acting and writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London recording contract. He had limited success until selected by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original album version of Jesus Christ Superstar (singing the hit "Superstar"). At around the same time he won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Despite these successes, he received little public attention in the next ten years (save for Say It Ain't So Joe from 1975), reappearing in the spotlight in 1984 as the star of the musical, Chess. The song "One Night In Bangkok", from Chess, featuring Head on lead vocal bacame the last significant Broadway/West End number to be a hit on American radio to date.
After his 1984 hit "One Night In Bangkok", Murray Head has had little attention internationally. Fluent in French, he has released some albums in that language. Noticeably, the song "Une femme un homme", a duet with Marie Carmen released in 1993 became a radio hit in French speaking Canada.
Some of his most recent work was in Luc Plamondon's musical comedy "Cindy" where he played Cindy's father.
Murray Head has guest starred in The Bill and Casualty.
Murray Head played an artist called Jack Hollins on ITV's Heartbeat from 2005-2006.
Discography
- 2005 - Emotions, My Favourite Songs
- 2002 - Passion
- 2000 - Innocence (reedition of Wave)
- 1995 - Pipe Dreams
- 1995 - When You're In Love
- 1993 - Innocence
- 1992 - Wave
- 1990 - Watching Ourselves Go By
- 1987 - Sooner Or Later
- 1984 - Restless
- 1983 - Shade
- 1981 - Find the Crowd
- 1981 - Voices
- 1979 - Between Us
- 1975 - Say It Ain't So
- 1972 - Nigel Lived
External links
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