Ian Gelder

Ian Gelder was a British actor whose stage and screen career began with an ITV Sunday Night Theatre episode in 1972. Born in Gloucestershire, he spent the later part of his childhood in Wokingham and took his mother's maiden name as his stage name. He played Rumpole's university lecturer son in Rumpole of the Bailey, and his stage work includes The Low Road in 2013 and Marcus Andronicus in Lucy Bailey's revival of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. On television he was Mr Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth in 2009 and Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones, a part he returned to in the fifth and sixth seasons, guest-starring in twelve episodes. He also appeared as Librarian Scholar Charles in His Dark Materials in 2019 and as Zellin in Doctor Who in 2020. Gelder died in 2024.