Nicholas Guest
The Honourable Nicholas Haden-Guest | |
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | May 5, 1951
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1978–present |
Spouse(s) | Jill Ellen Demby (divorced; 1 child) Pamela Guest (1989-present; 3 children) |
Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951)[1] is an American actor who has appeared in various movie and television roles, including that of Headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the teen sitcom USA High. Since 2000, he has primarily worked as a voice-actor.
Personal life
Nicholas Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became the 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.[2] Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and his paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.[2][3][4][5] Both of Guest's parents had become atheists, and Guest had no religious upbringing.[4] More than a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.
Nicholas Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native England. He is the brother of actor Christopher Guest, the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis and the half brother of the British-American writer Anthony Haden-Guest.
Family title
Guest is heir presumptive to the title of Baron Haden-Guest in the British peerage. This is because the children of his brother Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis (Lord and Lady Haden-Guest) are adopted and therefore ineligible to succeed to the title. However, should they have any natural-born son, that son would become heir apparent. Were he to succeed to the barony, he would be the 6th Baron Haden-Guest. As the child of a Baron, he is styled "The Honorable Nicholas Guest".
Filmography
Anime roles
- Rave Master - Hebi
- The Big O - Army Police
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Rasheed
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Additional Voices
Non-anime roles
- The Mummy: The Animated Series - Ardeth Bay
- Ben 10 - Clancy
- Justice League - Luminus
- Justice League Unlimited - Dino Trooper
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Lieutenant/Major Zander Barcalow
- Godzilla: The Series - Chad Gordon
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Question, Martian Manhunter
Live-action roles
- Power Rangers: Time Force - Taylor
- Building Manintenance: and a home man - Nicholas
- Sons of Anarchy - Voice of John Teller
Movie roles
- Appointment with Death - Lennox Boynton
- Astro Boy - French Waiter Robot
- Barnyard - Additional Barnyard Voices
- Big Hero 6 - Additional Voices
- Cloak and Dagger - Taxi Driver
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Rasheed
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic - Demon Preist
- Fly Me to the Moon - Fly Buddy
- Frozen - Additional Voices
- The Long Riders - Robert Ford
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Cadet
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman - French Peasant
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Todd Chester (the Griswold's next-door neighbor)
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Additional Voices (2005 Disney dub)
- Over the Hedge - Additional Voices
- ParaNorman - Hippie Ghost, Mobster Ghost
- The Penguins of Madagascar - Flight Attendent
- Racing Stripes - Additional Voices
- Rio - Additional Voices
- Saving Santa - Blitzen, Shortbeard
- Tangled - Additional Voices
- The Tale of Despereaux - Additional Voices
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Additional Voices
- The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving - Hyp's Father
- Trading Places - Harry (one of Louis Winthorpe III's preppy friends)
- Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor - Casey Ford
- Zootopia - Additional Voices
Music video roles
- Janie's Got a Gun - Father
Video game roles
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption - Christof Romuald
References
- ^ "Son to the Peter Haden Guests". The New York Times. 1951-05-13. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ a b Witchel, Alex (2006-11-12). "The Shape-Shifter". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
- ^ Murray, William Henry (1952). Adam and Cain: symposium of old Bible history, Sumerian Empire, importance of blood of race, juggling juggernaut of the leaders of the Jews, the Gothic civilization of Adam and the ten commandments of his church. Murray.
- ^ a b Rosen, Steven (2006-11-16). "Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. 21 (39). Retrieved 2006-11-16.
- ^ "A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe". thePeerage.com. 2006-11-12. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
External links
- 1951 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- Male actors from New York City
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American people of English descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American male voice actors
- Jewish American male actors
- People from Manhattan
- Younger sons of barons