Garrick's most recent film role was as Father Loughton, an English missionary in Xie Jin's Chinese epic, "The Opium War". With a cast of Chinese and English stars, the script called for him to learn his first scene entirely in Mandarin. And even more remarkable, he says, the Chinese actors seemed to understand him.

Garrick's first film role was as Eros in Charlton Heston's "Antony and Cleopatra". He went on to star in Marvin Lichtner's "Some Kind of Hero" a feature film about a deserter from the Vietnam war. Other films have included: "Cry Freedom", "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Message", in which he starred with Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas, working for over a year in the deserts of North Africa.

On television, Garrick's first major role was in New York in a United States Steel Hour production, "Little Lost Sheep" starring Jane Wyatt and Hans Conreid. Since then he has played in hundreds of television dramas around the world. In the series, "The Adventurer", shot at Elstree Studios in England, Garrick starred alongside Gene Barry. In the series, "Oppenheimer", about the making of the first atomic bomb, which starred Sam Waterston, Garrick played Frank Oppenheimer and in the BBC's "Lady of the Camellias", he played Dumas Fils, with Kate Nelligan in the title role.

The BBC has given Garrick the chance to pursue his love of classical theatre. In their Shakespeare series he played Mountjoy in "Henry V" and Octavius in "Julius Caesar". In repertory theatre in England he
has played Hamlet and at the Stratford Festival of Canada, where he won the Tyrone Guthrie Award, he played Don John in "Much Ado About Nothing".

Garrick writes and directs for his own audio cassette company, The Story Circle, which has just finished multi-voice productions of Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass" and "The Subtle Knife" for
Random House.

In TAKING SIDES he plays the british Major Richards.