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 ''

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''. Since 2000, he has primarily worked as a

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Personal life

Guest was born in

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, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British

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diplomat who later became the 4th

Baron Haden-Guest Baron Haden-Guest, of Great Saling, Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 2 February 1950 for the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician Leslie Haden-Guest. He had previously represe ...

, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at

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. 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

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, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade and the

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. 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 Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born 5 February 1948), known professionally as Christopher Guest, is a British-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Guest has written, directed, and starred in his series of comedy ...

and writer Elissa Haden Guest, the brother-in-law of actress

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and the half brother of the British-American writer

Anthony Haden-Guest Anthony Haden-Guest (born 2 February 1937) is an English-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York City and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books pu ...

. 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

Film

Video games

Music video

* 1989 - "

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" by

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- Father

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Jewish American male actors Male actors from New York City Younger sons of barons Royalty and nobility actors