Ian Gelder obituary

The actor Ian Gelder, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a notable supporting player at the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End and in leading fringe theaters for decades before finding television fame as Kevan Lannister, brother of the feared patriarch Tywin (Charles Dance), who planned a Shakespearean power grab in Game of Thrones (2011-16). He also exerted the devious side of his acting persona as the villainous Mr Dekker in Russell T Davies' Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood, for five episodes in 2009.

Gelder could be seedy and scandalous: as the suspicious Ed ...