Pippa Guard

Pippa Guard

72 (1952-10-13)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Pippa Guard is an actress best known for her TV and stage work. Her sole film credit was the lead role in An Unsuitable Job For a Woman, the 1981 adaptation of PD James' novel. Guard now works as a lecturer and drama programme leader at the University of Greenwich.

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman 1982 (5.2)

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
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N/A N/A (6.6)

Scarlett O’Hara’s flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.
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To the Lighthouse 1983 (5.4)

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.