Nicholas Guest Biography

Fast Facts

• He is the American-born son of a British U․N․ diplomat and an American mother whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia
• He has been featured without being seen in the FX TV series "Sons of Anarchy" as the ghost of motorcycle club founder John Teller
• Animated feature films for which he has supplied voices include "ParaNorman," "Astro Boy," "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" and "The Land Before Time III․"
• He appeared as the titular character's father in Aerosmith's music video for the song "Janie's Got a Gun․"
• His best-known live-action role is that of headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the NBC-TV series "USA High․"
• His earliest TV role was that of Baltrunar in the 1978 made-for-TV movie "The Defection of Simas Kudirka․"
• He is the younger son of the late Baron Haden-Guest, whose title passed to actor-screenwriter-director Christopher Guest, Nicholas' older brother, and he is Christopher's presumptive heir because Christopher's children are adopted