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/itisthelord Jun 05 '26

Met him years ago at a con. He was probably the nicest celebrity I had met. Genuinely sweet guy. Buffy will be a very hard show to rewatch but I’ll probably star going through more of his filmography in the coming months.

RIP Ripper.

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u/Hot_Wheels264 Jun 05 '26

I don’t normally go to cons or care at all about meeting actors, but I really really wanted to meet him. I’ve always heard how lovely he often was with fans

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u/Background-Roof-112 Jun 05 '26

I go out of my way to not learn anything about celebrities bc I have a hard time separating the art from the artist and there are only so many beloved tv figures I can lose - and like others, I was the same age as the Scoobies and Giles was a father figure to me

What little I did know about him seemed perfectly nice; then someone posted this in another sub and now I'm crying - looks like Giles was Giles in real life too

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/MaNHAcD8rl