Nicholas Guest

Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951), known as Nicholas Guest, 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

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. Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His paternal grandfather, the 1st 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. Both of Guest's parents had become atheists, and Guest had no religious upbringing. 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 the United Kingdom. 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.

Guest married Jill Ellen Demby on May 11, 1980, but they divorced in 1989. With Demby he had his first daughter, Julia Demby Haden-Guest (born on September 23, 1988). On November 26, 1989, he married Pamela Ann Guest (née Seamon), an actress and casting director, with whom he had his second daughter, Elizabeth Ann Haden-Guest (born on May 30, 1990), also an actress.

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), Annie Guest and Ruby Guest, are doubly ineligible to succeed to the title, being both female and adopted. Should he succeed to the barony, he will be the 6th Baron Haden-Guest. As the child of a baron, he is styled "''The Honourable'' Nicholas Guest".

Filmography

Animation

* ''Rave Master'' as Hebi (English dub)
* ''The Big O'' as Army Police (English dub)
* ''The Mummy'' as Ardeth Bay
* ''Ben 10'' as Clancy
* ''Justice League'' as Luminus
* ''Justice League Unlimited'' as Dino Trooper
* '' Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles'' as Lieutenant / Major Zander Barcalow
* '' Godzilla: The Series'' as Chad Gordon
* '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' as The Question, Martian Manhunter

Live-action roles

* ''Power Rangers Time Force'' as Taylor
* ''Building Manintenance: and a home man'' as Nicholas
* ''Sons of Anarchy'' as Voice of John Teller
* '' Sleepy Hollow'' as General William Howe, 2015 2 episodes

Movie roles

* 1980 ''The Long Riders'' as Robert Ford
* 1982 '' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'' as Cadet
* 1983 ''Trading Places'' as Harry (one of Louis Winthorpe III's preppy friends)
* 1984 ''Cloak and Dagger'' as Taxi Driver
* 1984 '' Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind'' as Additional Voices (2005 Disney dub)
* 1988 ''Appointment with Death'' as Lennox Boynton
* 1989 ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'' as Todd Chester (the Griswolds' next-door neighbor)
* 1989 ''Tunnels'' as Ron Bellard
* 1993 '' Brainsmasher...A Love Story'' as Detective Smith
* 1993 '' The Joy Luck Club'' as The Hairdresser
* 1994 '' Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor'' as DEA Agent Casey Ford
* 1995 '' The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving'' as Hyp's Father
* 1996 '' The Late Shift'' as Robert Iger
* 1998 '' Twice Upon a Time'' as Bed & Breakfast Manager
* 2001 '' Cowboy Bebop: The Movie'' as Rasheed
* 2003 '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' as Additional Voices
* 2003 ''The Tale of Despereaux'' as Additional Voices
* 2005 ''Racing Stripes'' as Additional Voices
* 2006 '' Barnyard'' as Additional Barnyard Voices
* 2006 ''Over the Hedge'' as Additional Voices
* 2008 ''Fly Me to the Moon'' as Fly Buddy
* 2009 ''Astro Boy'' as French Waiter Robot
* 2010 '' Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic'' as Demon Priest
* 2010 ''Tangled'' as Additional Voices
* 2011 ''Rio'' as Additional Voices
* 2012 ''ParaNorman'' as Hippie Ghost / Mobster Ghost
* 2013 '' Frozen'' as Additional Voices
* 2013 ''Saving Santa'' as Blitzen, Shortbeard
* 2014 '' Big Hero 6'' as Additional Voices
* 2014 '' Mr. Peabody & Sherman'' as French Peasant
* 2014 ''Penguins of Madagascar'' as Flight Attendant
* 2016 ''Zootopia'' as Judy's Grandfather (deleted scene)
* 2018 '' Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' as Martian Manhunter

Music video

* 1989 ''Janie's Got a Gun'' by Aerosmith, as Father

Video games

* 1993 '' Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist'' as Srini / Hop Singh
* 1996 ''The Jungle Book'' as Sergeant Polk
* 2000 '' Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption'' as Christof Romuald
* 2002 '' Star Trek: Bridge Commander'' as Lt. Felix Savali
* 2014 ''Titanfall 2'' as General Marder

References

External links

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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
Younger sons of barons
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