Nicholas Guest
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Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1955) is an American actor. He primarily works as a voice actor, but is best known for a TV role, as the principal in the NBC teen sitcom, USA High. He is also heir presumptive to a British title, Baron Haden-Guest.
Personal
Guest was born in New York, New York, the son of Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of CBS, and Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat and member of the British House of Lords who later became 4th Baron Haden-Guest.[1] Nicholas Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia,[2][3] while a paternal great-grandfather was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, an English Jew who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade.[4] Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native England. Although both of his parents were born Jewish, they became atheists and Guest had no religious upbringing.[2] He is the brother of Christopher Guest and brother-in-law of Jamie Lee Curtis.
Family title
Guest is currently heir presumptive to the title of Baron Haden-Guest in the British peerage. Were he to succeed to the barony, he would be the 6th Baron Haden-Guest.
Filmography
Anime roles
- Rave Master - Hebi
- The Big O - Army Police
Non-anime roles
- The Mummy: The Animated Series - Ardeth Bay
- Ben 10 - Clancy
- Justice League - Doctor
- Justice League Unlimited - Dino Trooper
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Lieutenant/Major Zander Barcalow
- Godzilla: The Series - Chad Gordon
Live-action roles
- Power Rangers: Time Force - Taylor
Movie roles
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Rasheed
- The Long Riders - Robert Ford
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Todd Chester (the Griswold's nextdoor neighbor)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Additional Voices
- Over the Hedge - 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)
References
- ^ Christopher Guest Biography (1948-)
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Witchel, Alex (2006-11-12). "The Shape-Shifter". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "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.
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