10 Game Of Thrones Celebrity Cameos You Totally Missed

9. Wilko Johnson

Famed musician Wilko Johnson can only boast one acting credit on his CV - a four-episode stint on Game Of Thrones - yet he will go down in history as the man that killed Lord Eddard Stark. The ex-Dr Feelgood guitarist played the role of executioner Ilyn Payne, who can no longer speak after having his tongue removed by order of the Mad King for suggesting Tywin Lannister was the real force in Westeros. He exacts the same punishment on Marillion the singer who travelled with Catelyn Stark to The Eyrie in Season 1. Wilko was devastatingly given just 10 months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, though remarkably, doctors managed to remove the 3kg tumour, and he is set for a full recovery. He was written out of the show out of respect to him, though he could make a comeback following such great news.