# Nicholas Guest

Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951), 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. 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.
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.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Animaniacs | Paul | Voice, episode: "Puttin' on the Blitz" |
| 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 |

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | The Long Riders | Robert Ford | |
| 1982 | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Cadet | |
| 1983 | Trading Places | Harry | |
| 1984 | Cloak & Dagger | Taxi Driver | |
| 1984 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Additional voices | 2005 English dub |
| 1988 | Appointment with Death | Lennox Boynton | |
| 1989 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Todd Chester | |
| 1989 | Tunnels | Ron Bellard | |
| 1993 | Brainsmasher... A Love Story | Detective Smith | |
| 1993 | The Joy Luck Club | Hairdresser | |
| 1994 | Kickboxer 4 | Casey Ford | |
| 1994 | Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter | Tom Hendy | |
| 1995 | The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving | Hyp's Father | Voice, direct-to-video |
| 1996 | The Late Shift | Robert Iger | |
| 1998 | Twice Upon a Time | Bed and Breakfast Manager | |
| 2001 | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | Rasheed | Voice |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Additional voices | |
| 2003 | The Tale of Despereaux | Additional voices | |
| 2005 | Racing Stripes | Additional voices | |
| 2006 | Barnyard | Additional voices | |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | Additional voices | |
| 2008 | Fly Me to the Moon | Fly Buddy | Voice |
| 2009 | Astro Boy | French Waiter Robot | Voice |
| 2010 | Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic | Demon Priest | Voice |
| 2010 | Tangled | Additional voices | |
| 2011 | Rio | Additional voices | |
| 2012 | ParaNorman | Hippie Ghost, Mobster Ghost | Voice |
| 2013 | Frozen | Additional voices | |
| 2013 | Saving Santa | Blitzen, Shortbeard | Voice |
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | Additional voices | |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | French Peasants | Voice |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Flight Attendant | Voice |
| 2018 | Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Martian Manhunter | Voice, direct-to-video |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1993 | Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist | Srini Lalkala Bagdnish, Hop Singh |
| 2000 | Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption | Christof Romuald |
| 2000 | Ground Control | M, additional voices |
| 2002 | Star Trek: Bridge Commander | Lt. Felix Savalai |
| 2002 | Blood Omen 2 | Marcus |
| 2003 | Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits | Windalf |
| 2005 | SWAT 4 | Hadeon Koshka, Gary Altman, Highground |
| 2007 | Ben 10: Protector of Earth | Clancy |
| 2008 | Speed Racer: The Videogame | Hydra Forces |
| 2016 | Titanfall 2 | General Marder |

### Music video

* 1989 - "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith - Father