Anthony Stewart Head, the English actor who portrayed the Watcher and school librarian Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died, his family said on Friday. He was 72. Head's daughters, Emily and Daisy,

British actor Anthony Head has died at the age of 72.

Head played Rupert Giles — the Watcher and father figure of the Slayer Buffy Summers — on all seven seasons of “Buffy” alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar.