Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born March 5, 1946) is a British actor and singer. He was born in London to Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. (Helen played Mme. Maigret alongside Rupert Davies in the original TV series "Maigret" by Georges Simenon.) His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony 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 asked by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original concept album version of Jesus Christ Superstar (singing the hit "Superstar"). He starred in the British movie The Family Way in 1966 opposite Hayley Mills and her father John Mills. The soundtrack was scored by then-Beatle Paul McCartney and producer George Martin. At about this time, Head won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated Sunday Bloody S

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