{{Short description|British actor, writer and psychologist}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Dominic Guard | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1956|6|18}} | birth_place = London, England | occupation = Actor, author, child psychotherapist | years_active = 1969–2000 | parents = Philip Guard<br>Charlotte Mitchell | relatives = Christopher Guard (brother)<br>Pippa Guard (cousin) }}
'''Dominic Guard''' (born 18 June 1956) is an English child psychotherapist, author and former actor.
==Early life== Guard was born in London on 18 June 1956. His father, Philip Guard, was an English stage actor, his mother, Charlotte Mitchell, an actress and poet. His older brother Christopher, also an actor, was born in 1953. His sister is the animator Candy Guard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jun/07/charlotte-mitchell|title=Charlotte Mitchell obituary|first=Anthony|last=Hayward|date=7 June 2012|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> His parents separated when he was twelve.
As a 14-year-old, in ''The Go-Between'' (1971), Guard played Leo Colston, the title character who runs messages between two secret lovers and has a momentous 13th birthday.<ref>{{cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|title=Views of a Freudian Classic and an Arctic Adventure|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/07/30/79682862.pdf|access-date=3 June 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 July 1971}}</ref> For his performance he won a BAFTA Award in 1971 as Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. The film won the ''Palme d'Or'', the main prize at the Cannes film festival.
==Career== Guard later appeared as ''Huw Morgan'' in ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1975 TV series), ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1975) with Richard Chamberlain, ''Absolution'' (1978) alongside Richard Burton and Billy Connolly,<ref>{{cite news |last=James |first=Caryn |title=A Bit of Burton's Legacy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/movies/a-bit-of-burton-s-legacy.html |access-date=3 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 July 1988}}</ref> ''Gandhi'' (1982), and in P. D. James's ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'' alongside his cousin Pippa Guard.<ref>{{cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet | author-link = Janet Maslin|title=Unsuitable Job for a Woman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/26/movies/film-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman.html|access-date=3 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 April 1985}}</ref>
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 Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, at the Westminster Theatre, and appeared in a guest role in the 1983 ''Doctor Who'' story ''Terminus''. He continued acting regularly until 2000.
==Later career== Guard is now a fully accredited child psychotherapist living in London and has written more than ten books for children,<ref>{{cite web|title=Certificate in Therapeutic Play|url=http://www.artspsychotherapy.org/artschild-psychotherapy/play-therapy/96|publisher=Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education|access-date=3 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224092543/http://www.artspsychotherapy.org/artschild-psychotherapy/play-therapy/96|archive-date=24 February 2013}}</ref> including ''Little Box of Mermaid Treasures'', ''Pirate Fun'', ''The Dragon Master's Tale'', and ''Secrets of the Fairy Ring''.
==Personal life == Guard is the father of two children with the actress Sharon Duce, with whom he appeared in ''Absolution'' (1978).<ref>Harvey Fenton, David Flint, ''Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s'' (FAB, 2001), p. 288</ref>
==Work==
===Films=== * ''The Go-Between'' (1971) - Leo Colston * ''The Nelson Affair'' (1973) - George Matcham Jr.<ref>{{cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|title=Genteel 'Nelson Affair' Opens|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/04/19/99142451.pdf|access-date=3 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 April 1973}}</ref> * ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975) - Michael Fitzhubert * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1975) - Albert Mondego * ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978) - Pippin Took * ''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<ref>{{cite news|title=L' Homme qui a perdu son ombre (1991)|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/165567/L-Homme-qui-a-perdu-son-ombre/overview|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615201725/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/165567/L-Homme-qui-a-perdu-son-ombre/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Clarke Fountain|access-date=3 June 2013}}</ref>
===Television=== * ''The Hands of Cormac Joyce'' (Hallmark Hall of Fame) (1972) - Jackie Joyce<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J. |title=Irish Island Drama is No. 100 on 'Hall of Fame'|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/11/18/90730732.pdf |access-date=3 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 November 1972 |quote=The actors were all impressive, especially young Mr. Guard, who provided an attractively lean performance in a role that could have easily been overstuffed with theatrics.}}</ref> * ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1976) - Huw Morgan * ''Maybury'' (1981) - Colin Gilbert * ''Cousin Phillis'' (1982) - Paul Manning * ''Terminus (Doctor Who)'' (1983) - Olvir * ''The Hello Goodbye Man'' (1984) - Glen Harris * ''A Woman of Substance'' (1985) - Winston Harte * ''Big Deal'' (series 3) 'Playing the ace' & 'The biggest deal' (1986) - Simon * ''All Creatures Great and Small S7.Ep4 'A Friend for Life''' (1990) ''-'' Peter Shadwell * ''The Bill - S7.Ep79 'Friday and Counting''' (1991) - Robin Granger * ''Casualty - S6.E15 'Cascade''' (1992) - Tim Turner * ''The Gingerbread Girl'' (1993) - David * ''The Bill - S10.Ep71 'Lesson to be Learned''' (1994) - Vernon Meredith * ''Casualty - S10.E11 'Release''' (1995) - Philip Hall * ''Wycliffe - S2.Ep6 Happy Families'' (1995) - Mick Brandon * ''The Bill - S12.Ep147 'Black Money''' (1996) - Tony Baker * ''Annie's Bar'' (1996) - Alistair Read * ''Poirot - S7.Ep2 Lord Edgware Dies'' (2000) - Bryan Martin
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 314–315.
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0345297}} *[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4SvzxfVVGfo THE GO-BETWEEN - Interview With Dominic Guard], YouTube {{Bafta Award for Most Promising Newcomer}}
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