Nicholas Guest

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Nicholas Guest

| image = Nicholas Guest 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg

| caption = Guest in 2019

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|5|5}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1978–present

| spouse = {{Plainlist}}

{{marriage|Jill Ellen Demby
|11 May 1980|1989|reason=divorced}}
{{marriage|Pamela Ann Seamon
|26 November 1989}}

| children = 2

| parents = The 4th Baron Haden-Guest
Jean Pauline Hindes

| relatives = Christopher Guest (brother)
Elissa Haden Guest (sister)
Anthony Haden-Guest (half-brother)
Jamie Lee Curtis (sister-in-law)

}}

Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951),{{Cite news|title=Son to the Peter Haden Guests|work=The New York Times|date=1951-05-13|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0910FA3A5B177B93C1A8178ED85F458585F9|access-date=2011-01-02}} known as Nicholas Guest, is a British-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, Leslie 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.{{cite news|last=Witchel|first=Alex|title=The Shape-Shifter|work=The New York Times|date =2006-11-12|url =https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magazine/12guest.html|access-date =2006-11-16}}{{cite journal | last =Rosen | first =Steven | title =Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!| journal =The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles | volume=21|issue=39|date =2006-11-16| url =http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16799|access-date =2006-11-16}} Both of Guest's parents were atheists, and Guest had no religious upbringing.

Nicholas Guest spent parts of his childhood in the United Kingdom. He is the brother of actor Christopher Guest and writer Elissa Haden Guest, the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis and the half brother of the British-American writer Anthony Haden-Guest.{{Cite web |title=Jean Guest Obituary (2017) - New York Times |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/jean-guest-obituary?id=19984979 |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Legacy.com}}

Guest married Jill Ellen Demby on May 11, 1980, but they divorced in 1989. With Demby he had his first daughter. On November 26, 1989, he married Pamela Ann Guest (née Seamon), an actress and casting director, with whom he had his second daughter.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

Filmography

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1993

|Animaniacs

|Paul

|Voice, episode: "Puttin' on the Blitz"{{cite web |title=Nicholas Guest (visual voices guide) |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Nicholas-Guest/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.

1999–2000

|Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

|Zander Barcalow

|Voice, recurring role

1999

|Godzilla: The Series

|Chad Gordon

|Voice, episode: "Freeze"

2000

|Batman Beyond

|Jack

|Voice, episode: "King's Ransom"

2001

|Rave Master

|Hebi

|Voice, 3 episodes (English dub)

2001

|Power Rangers Time Force

|Taylor

|3 episodes

2001–2003

|The Mummy

|Ardeth Bay

|Voice, recurring role

2002

|The Zeta Project

|Dr. Jacobs

|Voice, episode: "The Wrong Morph"

2003

|The Big O

|Army Police

|Voice, English dub; episode: "The War of Paradigm City"

2003

|Justice League

|Bill Brooks

|Voice, episode: "Only a Dream" Pt. 1

2004

|Static Shock

|Scientist #2

|Voice, episode: "No Man's an Island"

2005

|Justice League Unlimited

|Dino Trooper

|Voice, episode: "Chaos at the Earth's Core"

2006

|Ben 10

|Clancy

|Voice, episode: "Side Effects"

2008–2011

|Sons of Anarchy

|John Teller

|Recurring role

2009–2011

|Batman: The Brave and the Bold

|Martian Manhunter, Question

|Voice, 8 episodes

2015

|Sleepy Hollow

|William Howe

|2 episodes{{cite web |last=Frith |first=Vanessa |date=October 5, 2015 |title='Sleepy Hollow' Season 3: Bones Crossover Plot Revealed! How Will Science & The Supernatural Mix [VIDEO] |url=http://www.enstarz.com/articles/112073/20151005/sleepy-hollow-season-3-bones-crossover-plot-revealed-how-will-science-the-supernatural-mix-video.htm |access-date=March 14, 2016 |work=Enstarz}}