25 actors you forgot were on Game of Thrones

12. Roy Dotrice

Number of episodes: 2

Character name: Hallyne

Game of Thrones is one of those shows where great actors get small roles. Roy Dotrice’s last role before he died in 2017 was on the fantastical series.

Hallyne the Pyromancer is the head of the Alchemists’ Guild at King’s Landing, in charge of the wildfire stocks. Oh yes, you’ll start to remember the character now. He helps Tyrion concoct a plan to use wildfire on Stannis Baratheon’s fleet when the would-be king tries to invade King’s Landing. Without Hallyne, the Lannisters wouldn’t have been able to win the Battle of the Blackwater.

That being said, Dotrice isn’t best known for Game of Thrones. It was his last role, but there are many others that he is better known for. Angel fans will remember him as Wesley’s father Roger. He played Seamus Madigan on Madigan Men, Zeus in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Father in the 1980s Beauty and the Beast show, and Father Gary Barrett on the ’90s drama Picket Fences.

And he has another special connection to the Game of Thrones universe: Dotrice narrated the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks all the way through A Dance with Dragons in 2011.