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Christopher Guest was born on 5 February 1948, in New York City USA, to Peter and Jean Pauliene, of American and English ancestry, and is actually the 5th Baron Haden-Guest. He is known as a comedian, director, actor and screenwriter, but in addition is a musician as well.

So just how rich is Christopher Guest as of late 2017? Authoritative sources report that Guest’s net worth is as high as $30 million, accumulated from his over four decades long career in the entertainment industry.

Christopher’s father was a British United Nations diplomat. Chrisyopher attended The High School of Music & Art in New York City, then studied clarinet at Stockbridge School in Massachusetts, before becoming more interested in mandolin and country music, and playing guitar alongside Arlo Guthrie, his Stockbridge School classmate, before taking-up rock ‘n’ roll. In addition, Christopher studied acting at New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1971.

Guest began acting in theatres during the early ‘70s, debuting as Norman in Michael Weller’s ‘’Moonchildren’’ in Washington D.C. He started performing at Broadway as of 1972, and provided audio contributions for National Lampoon. Guest made support appearances in ‘’The Hot Rock’’ and ‘’Death Wish’’ in 1972 and 1974 respectively, all establishing his met worth.

In the ‘80s, he wrote ‘’This Is Spinal Tap’’, and starred in this rock mockumentary comedy movie, which received positive reviews from the critics and is considered one of the best movies of 1984. His character, Nigel Tufnel was widely recognized and Guest has portrayed him in several other television shows throughout his career. During the same year, he was hired for ‘’Saturday Night Live’’, with a one-year contract, playing the recurring characters including Frankie and Herb Minkman.

In 1987, he landed the starring role of Count Rugen in ‘’The Princess Bride’’. As of 1991, he acted in three episodes of ‘’Morton & Hayes’’, then appeared as Nigel Tufnel in ‘’Rockline on MTV’’, ‘’Good Morning America’’ and ‘’Tonight with Jonathan Ross’’ in 1992; in the same year, he played that character in ‘’Halloween Jam at Universal Studios’’. Guest played a supporting role in ‘’A Few Good Men’’, appearing alongside Tom Cruise and Demi Moore, and in addition, the 25th anniversary of ‘’Spinal Tap’’ was marked by ‘’A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out’’, released on 12 December and receiving mixed reviews from the critics. It holds a score of six point two out of ten stars on IMDB. In 1998, he provided the voice for Slamfist / Scratch-It in ‘’Small Soldiers’’, and in the next year, he directed and starred in ‘’D.O.A.’’, a comedy television movie. In 2000, he portrayed Harlan Pepper in “Best in Show”, which he also directed and co-wrote. From 2000 until 2003, he appeared in ‘’The Late Show with David Letterman’’, as Alan Barrows and Nigel Tufnel. His net worth was rising.

He provided the voice for Stanley S. SquarePants in ‘’SpongeBob SquarePants’’ in 2007, and in 2009, he acted in ‘’ Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’’ playing the part of Ivan the Terrible, and although the movie received mediocre reviews from the critics, it grossed over $413.1 million at the box office. Christopher then appeared in ‘’ Stonehenge: ‘Tis a Magic Place’’, a short comedy film in September of the same year.

As of the most recent past, Guest co-wrote, directed and made a short appearance in ‘’ Mascots’’ in 2016. In conclusion, he has acted in 90 films and television productions.

In his private life, Guest has been married to Jamie Lee Curtis since 1984. The couple has adopted two children and resides in Santa Monica, California. Christopher of Great Saling.

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1. Has a remarkable ability to alter his appearance and voice, making each of his characters completely unique

Christopher Guest Quotes

• On being banned (as a hereditary peer) from the House of Lords: There’s no question that the old system was unfair. I mean, why should you be born to this? But now it’s all just sheer cronyism. The Prime Minister can put in whoever he wants and bus them in to vote. The Upper House should be an elected body, it’s that simple.
• I don’t work with high-concept things that start with a premise, “Wouldn’t it be funny if there was this spy who met a …” For me, it could be, “What about people who sell shoes? That must be a bizarre world … when they meet at conventions and talk about shoes.”
• But I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They’re so earnest about it. But that’s true of so many things.
• The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don’t put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn’t work that way.
• I liked directing The Big Picture (1989). I was happy with it, but I remembered working on “Spinal Tap” and what a joy it was to make and how much we made each other laugh.
• “It’s real acting, in a sense. You’re reacting spontaneously to things you’ve never heard before. You can either do it or not, and if you’re with a bunch of people who can, there’s nothing more fun.” – on improvised acting.
• “Silliness framed in intelligence. Even when it’s stupid, you know intelligent people are doing it and that makes it a different joke. Stupid comedy over here [in America] is just plain stupid. It’s moronic and I don’t find it funny at all.” – when asked to define the tradition of English humor.
• I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian. I loved The Goons and then I got into “Beyond the Fringe” and by accident I met Jonathan Miller and those guys. And, of course, they led straight to [Monty] Python.
• People want me to be funny all the time. They think I’m being funny no matter what I say or do and that’s not the case. I rarely joke unless I’m in front of a camera. It’s not what I am in real life. It’s what I do for a living.
• Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
• No. I don’t talk about the family. This is kind of an on-going thing that gets, honestly, to be kind of tiresome, only because, you know, you meet people in Boston and they say, ‘Boy, what’s it like to wake up with Jamie Lee Curtis?’ Well, you know what? We’ve been married for 12 years, and we have kids, and it’s not like we’re living some bizarre life here. We go home and we wear sweatpants and the baby takes a dump and we change the diaper. I don’t mean to put you off here, but I just tend not to talk about it.

Christopher Guest Important Facts

• The five films that most influenced the director Christopher Guest: La Strada (1954) – Federico Fellini, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Stanley Kubrick, Broadway Danny Rose (1984) – Woody Allen, Cul-De-Sac (1966) – Roman Polanski, Sherlock Jr. (1924) – Buster Keaton.
• He has been a skilled guitarist since the 1960s and has displayed his talents in both Spinal Tap projects and A Mighty Wind (2003). He actually became acquainted with frequent co-stars and on-screen band mates Michael McKean and Harry Shearer at music venues before the three decided to make a career as comedic actors.
• Uncle of Elizabeth Guest and Julia Haden Guest.
• Attended the House of Lords regularly until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats.
• Christopher dropped the Haden from his surname when he started going to acting auditions in his 20s; he thought it sounded long-winded and distracting.
• Was the muse for an Asian-American short comedic film entitled Pax Importi Modellus: The Rise of the Import Model (2004), which has gained international attention.
• Lived in New York in the 1960s.
• In 2005, announced his intention to stop making mockumentary films, because he doesn’t find them funny anymore.
• His character from This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Nigel Tuffnel, is partially a spoof of British rocker Jeff Beck
• Christopher’s father, Peter Haden-Guest, was a British hereditary lord, an actor, and a dancer, who ended up a UN diplomat. Christopher’s father’s family was a mix of English, Dutch Jewish, German Jewish, and Scottish ancestry (including distant American-born ancestors). Christopher’s mother, Jean Pauline (Hindes), was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.
• Guest shoots 10-minute scenes to let the improvisations unfold organically and ends up with about 60 hours of film, which is then edited down over a year and a half to 90 minutes.
• Son-in-law of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
• Brother-in-law of actress Kelly Curtis and Pamela Guest.
• When a publicity photo of Guest and his co-stars from This Is Spinal Tap (1984) ran in Rolling Stone magazine, Jamie Lee Curtis saw the picture, fell in love and gave her phone number to Guest’s agent. They dated and eventually married.
• His idol growing up was comedian Peter Sellers.
• Has two adopted children, Annie Guest (December 1986) and Thomas (March 1996). Under the terms of the letters patent that created the Barony of Haden-Guest, they cannot inherit the title, but they can use the courtesy title of the Honourable before their first names.
• Half-brother of journalist Anthony Haden-Guest, the bibulous English socialite and journalist satirized by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
• Older brother of actor Nicholas Guest, who is heir presumptive to the family title. (As Christopher’s children are adopted, they cannot inherit the barony).
• Guest became the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996.

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