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

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

Music video

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

Video games

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