Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Anthony Head died months after partner Sarah Fisher
Buffy’s Anthony Head sadly passed away this month at the age of 72, months after the family revealed they were grieving the death of his beloved, Sarah Fisher.
Head, who was known for playing Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and being a staple in shows like Ted Lasso and Merlin, unfortunately succumbed to ‘complications due to pneumonia’ on June 5.
However, Head’s death comes just months after his long-term partner, and the mother of their two daughters, died suddenly.
The couple, who had been together since meeting in the 80s, never married, but Head once revealed that he couldn’t ‘imagine my life without’ her, and nor would he ‘want to’.
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The news that Fisher had passed came on 1 January, with their actress daughters, Emily and Daisy, writing on Facebook at the time that they had ‘very little warning’ prior to her death.
"We are so sorry to have to share the news that our extraordinary, kind and talented mother, Sarah, passed away recently," Emily and Daisy wrote in a statement online.
They called the passing 'immensely shocking to us all', writing: "No words could ever express all that she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left."
Head and Fisher met at the National Theatre, where Head was performing Danton's Death as a sort of executioner.
"I was doing a play called Danton's Death and for the last entrance I had to come on as a soldier taking traitors to the guillotine," he had explained to Hello! Magazine, as reported by People. "I'd wait in a corridor at the back with my musket and one day this beautiful lady walked past carrying a pint of beer for some guy front of house."
From 1982 until her death this year, the pair stayed unmarried, though Head joked that despite his efforts to wed, she wasn’t interested in the prospect.
"She just isn't interested [in getting married]. She says f*** off and then runs off to throw up," he had once told the Daily Telegraph, adding: "I just can't imagine my life without Sarah. And I definitely wouldn't want to."
The 61-year-old passed in December 2025, and six months later, her husband followed.
Head's death was confirmed by his daughters in a statement, which read: "It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of our extraordinary father, Anthony Head.
“He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family. It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many.
“We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in – he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.
“Our grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them. How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us.
“He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family. It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many.
“We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in – he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.
“Our grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them. How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us.
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Britt Jones