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Former Casualty star Clive Mantle has had the top of his ear savagely bitten off in a row at a hotel.

The Game of Thrones actor, 55, was attacked at 4.30am yesterday after asking two rowdy men outside his room at a Travelodge to keep it quiet.

The piece of ear was retrieved before being reattached by surgeons after terrified Clive was rushed to hospital by police.

At first there had been just one man making a din when 6ft 5in Clive, wearing pyjama bottoms and a T-shirt, walked barefoot out of his room and asked him to quieten down.

Clive then went back into his bedroom but the man returned five minutes later with an accomplice.

The actor went into the corridor again, asked them to be quiet, and moments later he was set upon.

His agent, Bryn Newton, said: “On the first occasion, he’d said ‘can you keep the noise down please?’.

"He was very polite. It was 4.30 in the morning and he was very tired.

"He returned to bed but when he went back outside there were two drunken Scotsmen.

“He said to them ‘If you don’t keep the noise down I am going to call security’.

“That’s when they set about him. Even though he is a big guy they got him on the ground.

“One of them bit the top part of his right ear off. It was savage.

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"Fortunately, someone heard the commotion down the corridor and came out to help him and called hotel management.

“When police arrived, they took Clive to hospital where he managed to have the top of his ear sewn back on.”

Clive, who played surgeon Mike Barratt in Casualty and sister BBC series Holby City for almost 10 years starting in 1992, has been told by docs he could lose the ear if it gets infected, which could end his career.

The actor, who plays Greatjon Umber in US series Game of Thrones, is due to see a surgeon tomorrow to assess the injury.

He was attacked in the early hours of Sunday at the hotel near Newcastle city centre.

Clive, who lives in Wiltshire with his young son, had just finished a run in The Ladykillers at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal.

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His injury forced him to cancel appearances in the show in Manchester this week.

Two 32-year-old men from Hamilton, near Glasgow, have been arrested in connection with the attack.

One is due to appear before magistrates next month charged with wounding with intent.

The other was bailed pending further inquiries.

Clive’s big break came in cult 80s series Robin of Sherwood where, at 6ft 5in, he was cast as Little John. He became a household name in ­Casualty as Mike Barratt, and later in Holby City.

He played a minor character called William in the 1992 film Alien 3 and was also in top comedy shows Bottom, One Foot in the Grave and The Vicar of Dibley.

* How our sister website the Newcastle Evening Chronicle is reporting the story.