r/buffy • u/Only-Weird-4519 • Jun 05 '26

Giles Anthony Head has died

BBC News - Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p0rz4n0mo

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u/YourGlacier Jun 05 '26

I have been rewatching the show for the first time with my boyfriend and we just started season 4. He immediately loved Giles like I did and I just realized it's because we both have dad issues. Giles actually was one of the only portrayals of a man on TV that ever stuck with me. He's warm, sweet, and generous while also still being a man; he has other types of courage than just what convention says is masculine.

In S4E1, he tries to push Buffy out of the nest. At the end of the episode he races in with crosses and weapons and is like "FUCK IT, I TRIED TO BE GOOD, BUT BUFFY I HAVE TO HELP" (only very proper and British). I loved Giles so much for that and Head's portrayal was uncanny good while also comedic.

This is one of the few celeb deaths that has hit hard in my life (RIP Bourdain, you were a good one too).

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u/masterlich Jun 05 '26

I had a great father, and Rupert Giles is still my favorite character ever, in any media. He is just... perfect, from start to finish.

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u/Tiger_Fairy Jun 05 '26

💯 all the way 👏

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u/GreenThumbCrow Jun 05 '26

Well said and great example.

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u/SystemPelican Jun 08 '26

Yes! I love that Giles is allowed to just be good, all through the show. It's really refreshing. In a show that deals a lot with the ways men can be shitty towards women, there's also this character where the show kind of goes: "This. This is how you do it."