‘Game of Thrones’ Actor Ian Gelder Dies at 74, Just Months After Cancer Diagnosis

British actor Ian Gelder, known for his role playing Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones, has died just five months after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer. He was 74.

Gelder’s death on Monday was announced by his husband and fellow actor, The Crown’s Ben Daniels, on Instagram Tuesday. Daniels described a “huge huge sadness” and a “heavy heart broken into a million pieces” after the passing of “my darling husband and life partner.”

Daniels added how he had stopped work after the December diagnosis but that “neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.”

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