By Eddard Stark’s Beard!! Learn Which Actor Is Unexpectedly Returning To GAME OF THRONES!! Read the full article on AICN I am – Hercules!! Flashback? Vision? Funeral scene? White walker? Though fleeing dwarf Tyrion Lannister fired two arrows into his father’s pantsless body in last spring’s fourth season finale of “Game of Thrones,” it appears Charles Dance will be returning to play next season one of my favorite TV characters ever. “I’m not completely missing out on the next series,” Charles Dance (who plays Tywin) told MTV UK while promoting the “Dracula Untold” movie.