ACTOR

Murray Head

1946 - Today

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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. As a musician, he is most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" (from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar) and "One Night in Bangkok" (the 1984 single from the musical Chess, which topped the charts in various countries). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Murray Head has received more than 2,011,992 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Murray Head is the 2,602nd most popular actor (down from 2,288th in 2019), the 2,314th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,149th in 2019) and the 319th most popular British Actor.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Murray Head ranks 2,602 out of 13,578. Before him are Lee Jung-jae, Zlatko Burić, Luis Mariano, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Jane Badler, and Margaux Hemingway. After him are Burl Ives, Anil Kapoor, Joe E. Tata, Hedda Hopper, Sean Astin, and Matthew Lillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Murray Head ranks 300. Before him are Henrique Rosa, Roméo Dallaire, Allan Holdsworth, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Johnson Toribiong, and Lana Wood. After him are Ralph Gonsalves, Chuck Hagel, Moritz Leuenberger, Robert Gadocha, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Andreas Katsulas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Murray Head ranks 2,314 out of 8,785. Before him are Teddy Sheringham (1966), Veronica Cartwright (1949), John Playfair (1748), Rachel Roberts (1927), David Tomlinson (1917), and John Scott Haldane (1860). After him are Martin Donnelly (1964), John Machin (1680), Edward Wilson (1872), Julian Bream (1933), Roy Salvadori (1922), and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Murray Head ranks 319. Before him are Richard Johnson (1927), Sylvester McCoy (1943), Claude Rains (1889), Veronica Cartwright (1949), Rachel Roberts (1927), and David Tomlinson (1917). After him are Jamie Dornan (1982), Sarah Siddons (1755), Patrick Troughton (1920), Ray Cooney (1932), John Mahoney (1940), and Hayley Atwell (1982).

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Television and Movie Roles

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bob Elkin
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Jul 1o 19716.631 / 10
Horsehead
Jim
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
Sep 7o 20145.3 / 10
I, Cesar
Mr. Fitzpatrick
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
Apr 9o 20035.5 / 10