Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
Absolution	Benjamin Stanfield	1978	22
The Go-Between	Leo	1971	15

Dominic 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. 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 Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, at the Westminster Theatre, London. He continued acting regularly until 2000.

Dominic is now a fully accredited child psychotherapist living in London. He has written more than ten books 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, with whom he appeared in Absolution (1978).