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I only got hooked on Games of
Thrones (GOT) in July 2016. I then
binge-watched the series and am
now an avid fan. Even if you don’t
watch the show, pass this item to
someone Jewish who does — they
will love learning, as I did, that two
characters every fan knows are
played by Jewish actors. Up until
now, this news has not been in this
column or anywhere in the Jewish
media.
Last week, I chanced upon a list of
seventh season characters and the
actors who played them. One name
was familiar: Paul Kaye. I vaguely
recalled an English Jewish comedian
named Paul Kaye. They are, I found
out, one and the same.
Paul Kaye, 52, played Thoros of
Myr (also known as the Red Priest) in
GOT. His character died in the sixth
episode of season seven (“Beyond
the Wall”). He is among the party, led
by Jon Snow, that heroically travels
“beyond the wall” to capture and
bring back a zombie-like “wight.”
Thoros is the Lord of Light drunken
priest who, we learn in season three,
can re-animate (revive from death)
Beric Dondarrion, the leader of the
Brotherhood without Banners. Thoros
revived Dondarrion six times, but his
death means Dondarrion is no longer
virtually immortal.
Kaye grew up in London. In 1984,
he took a year off from college to
work on an Israeli kibbutz. There he
met his wife, Orly Katz. They wed in
1989 and have two children. A rocket
launched from Gaza killed his mother-
in-law in 2010. Kaye first became
famous in the ’90s as “Dennis
Pennis,” a satirical radio host. Since
2000, he has mostly acted, appearing
on TV and on the stage.
Anton Lesser, 65, plays Qyburn,
the accomplice of the evil Queen
Cersei. Qyburn turned “the Mountain”
into a zombie-like killer. He presided
over the murder of the former head
Maester and he invented a catapult
that can launch a huge spear that can
wound a good dragon. Lesser, who
is best known as a Shakespearean
stage actor, won a British “Emmy”
(BAFTA Award) for playing Sir Thomas
More in the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall.
In 2015, he played Charles Dickens’
Jewish character Fagin on stage, and
he told a reporter that he is Jewish in
real life.
Kaye
Lesser
Anderson
RICHARD ANDERSON:
WHO KNEW?
A friend clued me in — talk about a
stealth Jew: actor Richard Anderson
died on Aug. 31, age 91. He appeared
in hundreds of roles (mostly TV). But
he’s best known as Oscar Goldman, the
supervisor in the ’70s series The Six
Million Dollar Man (as well as its spinoff,
The Bionic Woman). Anderson looked like
a WASP, but his real first name was Max.
His parents, Harry and Olga Anderson
(née Lurie), were the children of Russian
Jewish immigrants. •