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Christopher Guest
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Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Songwriter
Born:
February 5, 1948 in New York City, NY
Biography:An alumnus of New York City's High School of Music and Arts and Bard College, actor/writer/director "Christopher Guest" made his initial Broadway appearance in the 1970 revival of Room Service; two years later, he co-starred in Moonchildren. Guest's early acting accomplishments have tended to become obscured in the light of his extensive work for the National Lampoon folks: he wrote several articles for the Lampoon magazine, and was a writer/performer for the organization's radio programs, record albums, and stage reviews. His extensive comic talents went largely untapped in such "mainstream" acting assignments as the made-for-TV "Blind Ambition" (1982), in which he portrayed Nixon intimate Jeb Stuart Magruder, and the theatrical feature "The Long Riders" (1982), in which he was co-starred with his younger brother "Nicholas".

In 1982, Guest played divorced suburbanite Bucky Frische in "Million... Full Biography

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Jamie Lee Curtis photographs her husband Christopher Guest during the "Live Earth" concert at the...
Christopher Guest, left, Jon Bernthal and Alain Chabat in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the...
Director Christopher Guest on the set of "For Your Consideration"
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
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