Survived by his two daughters, Head was preceded in death by his longtime partner Sarah Fisher, an animal welfare advocate, who died suddenly last year at 61. At the time, Head and Fisher’s daughters shared a statement emphasizing the impact of her death on them and their father.
“Our grief knows no bounds, nor did the reaches of her incredibly unique and irreplaceable spirit,” they wrote in a Facebook statement at the time. “No words could ever express all she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left.”
While they never married—Head joked to The Daily Telegraph in 2018 she’d tell him to “f–k off” whenever he proposed—the actor always considered Fisher to be his life partner.
“I just can’t imagine my life without Sarah,” he told the U.K. newspaper. “And I definitely wouldn’t want to.”
And he credited Fisher, whom he dated for nearly 40 years, with his success as an actor.
“In the early days, I was unemployed and I would sit in my room, crying on the phone, saying, ‘I think I should come home’” he recalled. “But Sarah told me to stick it out and go to acting classes. And that’s exactly what I did.”
