Dominic Guard

Dominic Guard Biography

Dominic Guard (born 18 June 1956) is a former English film, television, and stage actor.

Biography

Dominic Guard was born in London on 18 June 1956. His father, Philip Guard, was an English stage actor. His older brother Christopher, also an actor, was born in 1953. As a 14-year-old he played Leo, the title character who has his momentous 13-year-old birthday in The Go-Between (1971), a performance for which he won a BAFTA award in 1971 as Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. The film won the main prize at the Cannes film festival.

He later appeared in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), in Absolution (1978) alongside Richard Burton and Billy Connolly, in Gandhi (1982), and in P. D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman alongside his cousin Pippa Guard. He appeared in a guest role as Olvir in the 1983 Doctor Who story Terminus.

In 1978 Guard voiced the role of Pippin in an animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. His brother Christopher Guard starred alongside him in the film, voicing Frodo Baggins. On stage he played Christopher in a 1982 production of The Jeweller's Shop by Karol Wotjyla, later Pope John Paul II, at the Westminster Theatre, London. He continued acting regularly until 2000.

Personal life

He is now a fully accredited child psychotherapist living in London. He has authored more than ten works for children, including "Little Box of Mermaid Treasures", "Pirate Fun", "The Dragon Master's Tale", and "Secrets of the Fairy Ring". He is the father of two children with the actress Sharon Duce.

Work

Films

The Go-Between (1971) - Leo Colston
The Nelson Affair (1973) - George Matcham Jr.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Michael Fitzhubert
Absolution (1978) - Benjamin Stanfield
One Fine Day (1979) - Rycroft
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) - Andrew Lunn
Gandhi (1982) - Subaltern
L' Homme qui a perdu son ombre (The Man who Lost his Shadow) (1991) - Paul

Television

The Hands of Cormac Joyce (Hallmark Hall of Fame) (1972) - Jackie Joyce
How Green Was My Valley (1976)
A Woman of Substance (1984) - Winston Harte

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