British actor Anthony Head, known for ‘Ted Lasso,’ has died at 72 - BERITAJA

Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British character known for roles successful Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.

Head’s daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the character passed distant owed to complications from pneumonia.

The performer became known to British TV audiences successful the 1980s arsenic 1 half of a will-they, won’t-they romanticist mates successful a bid of ads for Nescafe instant coffee.

Head achieved U.S. fame arsenic librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the title characteristic successful the cult-favorite supernatural bid Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ran from 1997 to 2003.

He about precocious played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham’s characteristic Rebecca, successful Ted Lasso.

“Our condolences is acold greater than the spread he has near behind, but we cognize his bequest will unrecorded on, successful the shows he was a portion of, and successful the audiences that emotion them,” his daughters said. “How fortunate we are to cognize we are capable to watch him doing what he loved, moreover erstwhile he is nary longer pinch us.”