Anecdotes

Younger brother of Christopher Guest. Half-brother of journalist Anthony Haden-Guest.

Brother-in-law of actress/director Jamie Lee Curtis.

His mother, Jean Pauline (Hindes), was American, his father was an English lord: Peter Haden-Guest, the fourth baron of Saling in Essex, an actor and dancer who ended up a UN diplomat. His half-brother is Anthony Haden-Guest, the bibulous English socialite and journalist satirized by Tom Wolfe in Le bûcher des vanités (1990). He is of Russian Jewish (mother) and upper class English/European Jewish (father) descent.

Uncle of Annie Guest and Ruby Guest.

Father of Elizabeth Guest, Julia Guest and stepfather of Willie Rack.

Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.