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Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born 5 March 1946) is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok" and his album Say It Ain't So. He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music, perform concerts and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor. Murray Head was born in London to Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head (1919– March 22, 2009), a documentary filmmaker and the founder of Verity Films, and Helen Shingler, an actress. (Helen played Mme.... MORE

Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born 5 March 1946) is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok" and his album Say It Ain't So. He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music, perform concerts and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor. Murray Head was born in London to Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head (1919– March 22, 2009), a documentary filmmaker and the founder of Verity Films, and Helen Shingler, an actress. (Helen played Mme. Maigret alongside Rupert Davies in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon). His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head. Head was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London and Hampton School in Hampton, London. Head began writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London-based 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, which, with the Trinidad Singers, LESS