Ian Gelder is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 who appeared in the TV movie of Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer which starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients...

as his university lecturer son. He has also played many other roles on stage and screen. His partner is actor Ben Daniels

Ben Daniels

Ben Daniels is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , he has taken on roles in numerous productions...

. He has appeared in television programmes such as Torchwood: Children of Earth, 2009

2009 in television

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, and Game of Thrones, 2011 as Mr Dekker and Kevan Lannister respectively.