Dominic Guard

Dominic Guard
Born	18 June 1956 London, England

Dominic Guard (born 18 June 1956) is a former English film actor.

His most famous role was as a 14-year-old when he played Leo in The Go-Between. He won a BAFTA award in 1972 for his performance. He is also well-known for his guest role as Olvir in the 1983 Doctor Who story Terminus.

He later appeared in Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gandhi, and alongside Richard Burton and Billy Connolly in Absolution (1978). Also in 1978 Guard voiced the role of Pippin in an animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. He continued acting regularly until 2000. One of his films, P. D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, found him acting alongside his cousin, Pippa Guard.

He is now a fully accredited child psychotherapist living in London. He is also a published children's author, with "Little Box of Mermaid Treasures" to his credit. He is the father of two children with the actress Sharon Duce and is the younger brother of the actor Christopher Guard (born 1953).

External links

• Dominic Guard at the Internet Movie Database

In 1982 he played Christopher in "The Jeweller's Shop" by Karol Wotjyla (Pope John Paul II) at the Westminster Theatre, London.

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Name	Guard, Dominic
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Date of birth	18 June 1956
Place of birth	London, England
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