Predominantly a television actor whose credits on British television have been extensive since the late 1970s, Robert Pugh became best-known internationally as the unsavoury wildling Craster in "Game of Thrones" (HBO 2012- ) from the second series onwards. Little-known outside of the U.K. before this role, audiences in his home country were most likely to know him from an earlier role as repressed priest Father Matthew in "The Lakes" (BBC 1997-99), a hit drama from well-respected English screenwriter Jimmy McGovern.