GAME OF THRONES Actor Disfigured Touring In Play

GAME OF THRONES Season One featured player Clive Mantle has been severely injured in an attack following a performance of THE LADYKILLERS onstage Saturday night in England.

On the night, Mantle had finished the final Newcastle performance of the Graham Linehan play - a long-running tour which was still scheduled to play for three more weeks prior to this injury in a new location - and requested that some rowdy partying happening on the street below his room in the hotel be kept down while he tried to sleep.

What exactly ensued is unclear, but a 32-year-old man has been charged with suspicion of biting the top of Mantle's ear clean off in a grisly attack following an argument and scuffle of some sort inside the hotel.

Surgeons managed to repair Mantle's disfigured ear and reattach the severed portion of it in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Mantle's spokesman released the following statement to the press about Mantle's condition: "He is very shaken and shocked by what has happened. You don't expect this kind of thing to happen in a hotel. The part of the ear that was bitten off was found and sewn back on. Mr. Mantle said the police, ambulance and hospital staff were amazing."

Mantle has subsequently left the production of THE LADYKILLERS permanently, a new touring production which he has starred in since September.

Mantle is perhaps best known internationally for his role in the UK TV series CASUALTY and its spin-off HOLBY CITY besides his work on HBO's epic fantasy series GAME OF THRONES, where he played Greatjon Umber. Additionally, Mantle received the 1986 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in OF MICE AND MEN in addition to a slew of other stage and screen work.

No further information is known about the legal ramifications and other charges being made by either party at this time, though other individuals involved with the incident have been released by authorities.

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