Philip Guard

{{Short description|English actor (1928–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} '''Philip John Guard''' (29 November 1928 – May 2024) was an English stage actor who occasionally appeared in film and television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/philip-guard-94532|title=Philip Guard – Broadway Cast & Staff|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref>

==Life and career== Philip John Guard was born in Rochford, Essex, on 29 November 1928.

Guard appeared occasionally in film and television, but has been more prolific on stage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0c8c66e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213061307/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0c8c66e|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 February 2018|title=Philip Guard|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/297/philip-guard/past|title=Philip Guard |website=theatricalia.com}}</ref>

In 1956, he married the actress Charlotte Mitchell; they separated in 1968. Their sons are the actors Christopher Guard and Dominic Guard, and daughter Candy Guard, a writer and animator.<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>

Guard appeared, unwittingly, alongside Mark Dignam and John Bryning, on the fade-out of The Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus," on which a 1967 BBC radio broadcast of ''King Lear'' can be heard with Guard playing "Edgar."<ref>{{cite web|title=Recording, mixing, editing: I Am The Walrus, Your Mother Should Know|date=29 September 1967|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/29/recording-mixing-editing-i-am-the-walrus-your-mother-should-know/|publisher=The Beatles Bible|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref>

Guard died in May 2024, at the age of 95.<ref>{{cite web |title=Absent Friends 2024 – The 7th Dimension |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268bt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250101223251/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268bt |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 January 2025 |website=BBC Sounds |access-date=1 January 2025 |date=29 December 2024}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0345303}} * {{IBDB name|94532}}

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