Ian Gelder

Acting

Ian Gelder

Born 1949-06-03 · England, UK

Ian Gelder was a British actor best known as Mr Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth and Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Acting credits

King Ralph poster
5.4

As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

King Ralph

1991

Pope Joan poster
6.8

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Pope Joan

2009

King Lear poster
NR

Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

King Lear

2012

Sweetheart poster
NR

In 1723 London, Thomas Neville is discovered cruising in the public toilets and forced to take refuge in a Molly House. There, he encounters a secret community as they prepare for a night of festivities.

Sweetheart

2025

No artwork available
8.0

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

The Fool

1990

Little Dorrit poster
6.4

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Little Dorrit

1987

Surge poster
5.5

A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.

Surge

2020

Jinnah poster
6.9

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Jinnah

1998

The Informant poster
6.6

A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.

The Informant

1997

Ticker poster
NR

Howard drives his partner Joseph from their farm to hospital to undergo high risk surgery. The unexpected discovery of an old mix tape in the glove compartment sees the masculinity of their forty-year relationship start to yield.

Ticker

2023

Skallagrigg poster
4.0

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.

Skallagrigg

1994

Packman's Barn poster
NR

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

Packman's Barn

1976

Paul: The Emissary poster
9.5

The path of Saul the angry zealot to Paul the servant of Christ, who will pay any price to bring his message to the world.

Paul: The Emissary

1997

The Next Victim poster
8.0

A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.

The Next Victim

1975

The Monkey's Paw poster
NR

The White family await their guest. Sergeant-Major Morris has just returned from serving in India.He carries a cursed monkey's paw. It can grant the owner three wishes. Is it magic? A curse? Or pure coincidence?

The Monkey's Paw

2022

Rumpole's Return poster
5.8

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Rumpole's Return

1980

The After Dinner Game poster
7.5

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

The After Dinner Game

1975