Late British singer and guitarist Wilko Johnson played the role of Ilyn Payne, the royal executioner, in the season 1 and season 2 of Game of Thrones.
In the movie, Payne was instructed to kill the beloved Eddard “Ned” Stark.
Who Was Wilko Johnson?
Late Wilko Johnson was a guitarist, singer, songwriter and part-time actor.
He served in the 1970 rock/rhythm and blues band Dr. Feelgood.
Johnson was known to play his guitar without a pick but rather using a fingerstyle.
In 2011 and 2012 he was featured in the HBO series Game of Thrones; as well as the BBC4 documentaries Evidently… John Cooper Clarke and Punk Britannia.
The late actor was a graduate of the University of Newcastle, where he bagged a degree in English Language and Literature.
Johnson had co-authored his autobiography titled Looking Back at Me, in 2012.
Johnson passed away on November 21, 2022, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was aged 75.
He had been diagnosed with the ailment in 2013 and had to undergo a radical surgery.