Natural within Camden Town, London; his father was Seafield Head, a founder of Verity Films, & his mother was the actress Helen Shingler. His older brother is actor & singer, Murray Head. Anthony was educated at a London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). His foremost role was in the musical Godspell; this led to roles in televisiin on two BBC and ITV, one of his earliest being in the series Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978-80) and then the series of xii coffee commercial message by having Sharon Maughan for Nescafé Gold Blend (re-edited to include the United states of america brandname, Taster's Choice), which was what brought him fame. Profits in a stage & the total of brief appearances on Our contries TV like the short-passing VR-5 led to accepting the role of Rupert Giles in Buffy in 1997, for which he lived full-whale in a United States in the period of the late 1990s and early 2000s, although his family continued to sleep in a UK.

Around 2002, he returned to Britain and co-starred in the BBC Two television series Manchild, concerning 4 fifty-something men world health organization spend everthing of their instance talking all about sex. He as well appeared around guest roles within various more dramas, like Silent Witness, Murder Investigation Team and Spooks. He hwhen too guested as a Prime Minister inside popular BBC comedy sketch indicate Little Britain since 2003, and guest starred within many episodes of the 2004 series of popular drama Monarch of the Glen.

Outside of television act, he has freed an album of songs with musician George Sarah entitled Music for Elevators. Early inside his career he provided vocals for a few of the tracks on the Chris de Burgh album The Getaway & especially a reading from either The Tempest on ''Don't Pay A Ferryman.

He appeared within the favorite webcast version of Doctor Who in a story known as Death Comes to Time in which he plays the Time Lord Valentine, and guest starred in the Excelis Trilogy, a series of audio dangerous undertaking by Big Finish Productions. He hwhen been confirmed as guest-starring inside an episode of the 2006 year of the television series of Doctor That, swimming Mr Finch in the story tenatively coroneted School Reunion.

There exists lasting talk about Head starring around the Buffy spin-by-product series for the BBC entitled Ripper'', but therefore far nothing has are of this.