--- description: Olly looks shifty as the gang sends good wishes to a cast mate's son title: Watch the Night's Watch Wish This Guy a Very 'Game of Thrones' Birthday image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Night's Watch Wish This Guy a Very _Game of Thrones_ Birthday by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 17, 2015 10:23 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 17, 2015 10:23 PM CUT A nice perk of having a _Game of Thrones_ actor for a father is getting the best of the Night’s Watch and its allies to wish you a happy birthday. YouTube user Kevin McCowen posted [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1q0lJG3Sk0 "undefined") on Wednesday, noting, “My dad, who plays Othell Yarwyck on _Game of Thrones_, got the cast who plays the Night’s Watch to wish me a Happy Birthday. Best birthday ever!” While many of the men (including Wildling Tormund Giantsbane, played by Kristofer Hivju) present very grim-sounding wishes, another Wildling, Gilly ([Hannah Murray](http://time.com/3827082/hannah-murray-bridgend-game-of-thrones-gilly/ "undefined")), giggles at her cast mates. Young Olly (Brenock O’Connor) looks very shifty indeed — perhaps foreshadowing his [mischief](http://time.com/3920729/game-of-thrones-season-five-finale-jon-snow-death/ "undefined") in the season 5 finale. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/"},"headline":"Watch the Night's Watch Wish This Guy a Very Game of Thrones Birthday","datePublished":"2015-06-17T22:23:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:18:19.981Z","description":"Olly looks shifty as the gang sends good wishes to a cast mate's son","url":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/","keywords":["Television","HBO","game of thrones"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/","name":"Watch the Night's Watch Wish This Guy a Very Game of Thrones Birthday"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Thrones' Catching Up With Book Plot Means Spoilers For All","description":"The day","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/j83INjRk/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-16T18:30:15.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/j83INjRk.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3925381/nights-watch-happy-birthday-game-of-thrones/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```