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Anthony Head is an English actor and musician best known for playing the Gold Blend couple in television advertisements for Nescafé Gold Blend. In television he played The Prime Minister in the successful BBC comedy series Little Britain, written by Matt Lucas and David Walliams, and in radio he starred as Mr Gently Benevolent in Bleak Expectations, a comedy parodying Charles Dickens, Professor Saunders in Clayton Grange, and Ed Walker in You, Me & Them.

Year Production Role
2022 Motherland - Last Christmas
  1. Last Christmas
Bill
2022 Sideshow Gerald
2021 Feel Good - Series 2
  1. E4 - Episode Four
  2. E5 - Episode Five
George Senior
2021 Motherland - Series 3
  1. E1 - Nit Blitz
Bill
2021 Back - Series 2
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Charismatic Mike
2021 School's Out Forever Actor
2020 Reasons To Be Cheerful With Matt Lucas
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Self
2019 Little Britain - Little Brexit
  1. Little Brexit
Ensemble Actor
2019 Motherland - Series 2
  1. E1 - No Mum Left Behind
  2. E5 - Le Weekend
Bill
2019 The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited Self
2016 Yonderland - Series 3
  1. E5 - The Negatus Redemption
  2. Special - It's The Thought That Counts
Nigel
2016 Drunk History - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Admiral Horatio Nelson
2016 Drunk History - Series 2
  1. E5 - Episode Five
Alexander Graham Bell
2015 Convenience Barry
2015 Yonderland - Series 2
  1. E7 - The Last Fahl
Nigel
2015 You, Me & Them - Series 2
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  1. E1 - The Other Mother
  2. E2 - The One Before The One
  3. E3 - Joining The Masons
  4. E4 - School Reunion
  5. E5 - The Gift
  6. E6 - The Origami Butterfly Effect
Ed Walker
2014 Cabin Pressure - Zurich
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  1. E1 - Zurich: Part One
  2. E2 - Zurich: Part Two
Herc
2014 The Inbetweeners Go Global Narrator
2014 Clayton Grange - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
Professor Saunders
2013 You, Me & Them - Series 1
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  1. E1 - First Encounters
  2. E2 - Three Dinners
  3. E3 - Lucky Buddha
  4. E4 - The Funeral
  5. E5 - The Legend Of Old McCready
  6. E6 - The Test
Ed Walker
2013 Cabin Pressure - Series 4
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  1. E3 - Vaduz
  2. E6 - Yverdon-Les-Bains
Herc
2012 Bleak Expectations - Series 5
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  1. E1 - A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled
Sourquill
2012 Bleak Expectations - Series 5
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  1. E1 - A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled
Mr Gently Benevolent
2012 Clayton Grange - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
Professor Saunders
2011 The Inbetweeners Movie Will's Dad
2011 Cabin Pressure - Series 3
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  1. E3 - Newcastle
  2. E4 - Ottery St Mary
  3. E5 - Rotterdam
Herc
2010 Bleak Expectations - Series 4
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  1. E3 - A Wretched Life Made Much Much Sadder
  2. E4 - A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled
  3. E5 - A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up
  4. E6 - A Life Destroyed, And Then Repaired And Re-Happied
Sourquill
2010 Bleak Expectations - Series 4
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  1. E1 - A Tolerable Life De-Happified
  2. E3 - A Wretched Life Made Much Much Sadder
  3. E4 - A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled
  4. E5 - A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up
  5. E6 - A Life Destroyed, And Then Repaired And Re-Happied
Mr Gently Benevolent
2009 Bleak Expectations - Series 3
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  1. E1 - A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More
  2. E2 - A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified
  3. E3 - A Sort Of Fine Life De-Niced Completely
  4. E4 - A Horrible Life Un-Ruined And Then Re-Ruined A Lot
  5. E5 - An Evil Life Sort Of Explained
  6. E6 - Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked And Redeemed
Mr Gently Benevolent
2009 Free Agents - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
Stephen Caudwell
2008 Bleak Expectations - Series 2
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  1. E1 - A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-Kippered
  2. E2 - A Re-Kippered Life Smashed Some More
  3. E3 - A Recovery All Made Miserable
  4. E4 - A Restoration Re-Ruined Only Even Worse
  5. E5 - Already Bad Life Made Worse But Sort Of On Purpose
  6. E6 - Happy Life Broken And Then Mended A Bit
Mr Gently Benevolent
2008 Friday Night With Jonathan Ross - Series 14
  1. E17 - Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Marr, Anthony Head, Yazoo
Guest
2008 The Invisibles
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
Maurice Riley
2008 Freezing - Series 1 Lindsay Posner
2007 Sold
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  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E3 - Episode Three
  3. E4 - Episode Four
  4. E5 - Episode Five
  5. E6 - Episode Six
Mr. Colubrine
2007 Free Agents - Pilot Stephen Caudwell
2007 Bleak Expectations - Series 1
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  1. E1 - A Childhood Cruelly Kippered
  2. E2 - An Adolescence Utterly Trashed
  3. E3 - A Youth Utterly Crocked
  4. E4 - A Young Adulthood Bitterly Dismantled
  5. E5 - A Young Love Mercilessly Dismembered
  6. E6 - A Life Sadly Smashed...Then Happily Restored A Bit
Mr Gently Benevolent
2007 Sensitive Skin - Series 2
  1. E3 - The Signals
  2. E6 - Here I Am
Tom
2006 Little Britain - Little Britain Abroad
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  1. E2 - Part Two
The Prime Minister
2005 Little Britain - Series 3
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
The Prime Minister
2005 Little Britain Live Ensemble Actor
2005 My Family - The 2005 Specials
  1. Special - Comic Relief Special
Self
2004 Little Britain - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
The Prime Minister
2003 Little Britain - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E5 - Episode Five
  5. E6 - Episode Six
  6. E7 - Episode Seven
  7. E8 - Episode Eight
The Prime Minister
2003 My Family - Series 4
  1. E12 - May The Best Man Win
Richard Harper
2003 Manchild - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
  8. E8 - Episode Eight
James
2003 Little Britain - Pilot The Prime Minister
2002 Manchild - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
James
1997 Jonathan Creek - Series 1
  1. E1 - The Wrestler's Tomb
Adam Klaus
1996 Roger Roger - Pilot
  1. Pilot
Jimmy Price
1993 The Detectives - Series 1
  1. E4 - Acting Constables
Simon
1988 The Comic Strip Presents... - Series 3
  1. E2 - More Bad News
Recording Studio Engineer
1984 The Comic Strip Presents... - Series 2
  1. E6 - Slags
Ricki

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Anthony Head on IMDb

Born
Saturday 20th February 1954 (70 years-old)
Nationality
English

Born in Camden Town, London, head was educated at Sunbury Grammar School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). His father was Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head, a documentary filmmaker and founder of Verity Films, and his mother is actor Helen Shingler.

Head began his comedy career by working on two series of The Comic Strip Presents... in the 1980s, working backstage and playing the minor role of Ricki. After several
From 2002 to 2003, Head appeared alongside Nigel Havers and others in the BBC Two comedy drama Manchild, a show following four successful 50-something struggling to come to terms with their respective mid-life crises.

In three series of Little Britain] (2003-2005), Head starred as The Prime Minister, alongside David Walliams's enamoured/obsessed assistant Sebastian, in the the BBC sketch comedy show Little Britain.

Head is also a talented musical performer, and his breakthrough first role was in the musical Godspell[/o].

Head played Frank N. Further in the 1990-1991 West End revival of [I]The Rocky Horror Show at London's Picaddilly Theatre,

He has played both Alexander Graham Bell and Admiral Horatio Nelson in various episodes of the Comedy Central comedy Drunk History, and has starred in such works as Motherland and Yonderland.

Alongside his extensive work in television, Head has released an album of songs with musician George Sarah, entitled Music For Elevators.

Head has appeared in a special webcast version of Doctor Who, a story called Death Comes To Time, in which he played the Time Lord Valentine.

From 2008 to 2014 Head starred in the last two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure, a much-loved sitcom based on the world's smallest airline. Here he would play Hercules Shipwright, a romantic interest for airline CEO played by Stephanie Cole, and would feature alongside classic comedy actor Roger Allam and future star Benedict Cumberbatch.

British Comedy Awards 2006
Best Stage Comedy (Winner)
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