Murray Head

Murray Seafield St George Head (born 5 March 1946) is an English actor and singer. Head has appeared in a number of films, including a starring role as the character Bob Elkin in the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar-nominated 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday. to Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head and Helen Shingler. in Hampton, Middlesex. He attended Chiswick Polytechnic (A level college) in the early 1960s.

Career Head began writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London-based recording contract. He briefly appeared as one of the hosts of the Bristol-based television pop show Now! alongside Michael Palin. 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; at the time, he had been appearing in the West End production of the musical Hair. With the Trinidad Singers, the song "Superstar" peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971.

He made his film debut in The Family Way (1966), which featured Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and John Mills in the leading roles.

Personal life Head married Susan Ellis Jones in 1972; they divorced in 1992. He has two daughters. Head married Lindy Ross (née Newton) in 2019.

Discography

Nigel Lived (1972) Say It Ain't So (1976) Between Us (1979) Voices (1981) Shade (1982) Restless (1984) Sooner or Later (1986) Wave (1992) Pipe Dreams (1995) Tête à tête (2007) Rien n'est écrit (2008) – Also distributed as a double album, with new versions of songs including "Say It Ain't So", "Never Even Thought", and "You Are" My Back Pages (2012) – Performs songs by other artists such as Bob Dylan, Kansas, Spencer Davis Group, The Who, Roxy Music, and Dido

Selected filmography Film Television