Nicholas Guest Filmography

Primeval

Crew: ADR Loop Group

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, Jürgen Prochnow, Gideon Emery

Synopsis: An American news crew travels to one of the most remote locations on the planet in hopes of capturing the savage serial killer rumored to have claimed over 300 lives in this white knuckle horror thriller starring Dominic Purcell and Orlando Jones, and based on actual events. As the intrepid Read More

A Good Year

Actors: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Gladiator duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment banker who relocates to Provence in hopes of selling a small vineyard he has inherited from his recently deceased uncle. As a child, Max Skinner Read More

Barnyard

Actors: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes

Synopsis: A cow learns to walk like a man, both literally and figuratively, in this computer-animated comedy written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, the creator of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at Read More

Over the Hedge

Actors: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner

Synopsis: A group of feisty forest critters awaken following the winter freeze to discover that not only has a new neighborhood cropped up during the cold months, but living in close proximity to humans may have its benefits in this computer-animated comedy-adventure for all ages featuring the voices of Bruce Willis Read More

The Wild

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

Synopsis: A handful of zoo animals leave behind their well-protected environment for the streets of the big city in this computer-animated comedy. Sampson (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) is the king of a make-believe jungle far from the African plains -- he's a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Read More

The Three Musketeers

Crew: ADR Loop Group

Actors: Tress MacNeille, April Winchell, Jim Cummings, Russi Taylor, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Bill Farmer

Synopsis: Based very loosely on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, this direct-to-video Disney version of The Three Musketeers features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as janitors who become pawns in a scheme by Peg-leg Pete to take the throne away from Princess Minnie. The threesome works together Read More

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Crew: ADR Loop Group

Actors: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The legendary rogue of the seven seas confronts a new assortment of dangers and thrills in this animated action-adventure tale. Sinbad (voice of Brad Pitt) and his crews of pirate adventurers are hoping to retire to Fiji, and they discover a treasure that could make that possible -- the Book of Read More

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Actors: Megumi Hayashibara, Unshou Ishizuka, Kouichi Yamadera, David Lucas, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee

Synopsis: The popular animé series Cowboy Bebop gets its own feature-length film with the aptly named Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Set in the late 21st century, it jumps into the series' story line just prior to its conclusion, with the bounty hunting crew of the interstellar craft Bebop chasing a hacker aboard Read More

Heavy Gear [Animated Series]

The Road to El Dorado

Crew: ADR Loop Group

Actors: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Dreamworks SKG's second feature-length animated film blends comedy and drama in an unusual historical adventure. Two genial swindlers working as stable hands stow away with Cortez, the legendary Spanish conquistador, as he searches for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Luck smiles on the two con Read More

Twice Upon a Time

Actors: Ellen Crawford, Carolyn Fears, Peter Fox, John Fugelsang, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Dissatisfied with the way her life has turned out, Beth Sager (Molly Ringwald) would give anything for the proverbial Second Chance. Upon breaking a wishbone during Thanksgiving dinner, Beth finds her dreams coming true; she is whisked to a parallel world where the people are familiar but the Read More

Morella

Actors: Angela Jones, Nicholas Guest, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: Edgar Lynden is a prison hospital doctor who conducts some unauthorized and certainly unethical medical experiments in company with his ruthless paramour, Dr. Patricia Morella. He has a twisted relationship with her, which becomes macabre when, as she is comatose and dying from a rare degenerative Read More

Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels

Actors: Nicholas Guest, Norbert Weisser, Andrew Divoff, Simon Poland, Sue Price

Synopsis: Sue Price, in her third go-round as Alex in the Nemesis series, runs afoul of mercenaries after killing the wrong man in this futuristic sci-fi/horror tale. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving

Actors: Jeff Bennett, Linda Gary, Nicholas Guest, Whitby Hertford, Heather Hogan

Synopsis: In this third installment of the animated saga of a young brontosaurus and his pals, trouble has come to the Great Valley in the form of a meteorite. It fell just beyond the valley and now blocks the main water supply. As the land dries and thirst increases, the different species of dinosaurs who Read More

Night Hunter

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson

Synopsis: In this combination action-horror movie, a kick-boxing vampire hunter (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) takes on various Los Angeles-based bloodsuckers and ends up pursued by their brethren and the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Puppet Master 5

Actors: Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ian Ogilvy, Teresa Hill, Nicholas Guest

Synopsis: In this entry in the thriller series, the puppets and their guardian get into a strange, complex situation involving evil villains desiring to learn their dark secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rave Review

Actors: Jeff Seymour, Carmen Argenziano, Ed Begley, Jr., Robert Costanzo, James Handy

Synopsis: This black comedy centers upon the L.A. theater scene. Steve Maletti owns a small struggling theater. He also directs the plays there. He has just secured two popular TV stars to appear in his newest production. Unfortunately, the actors get a movie deal and fly away to Africa leaving the hapless Read More

Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor

Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Kamel Krifa, Brad Thornton, Jill Pierce, Michele "Mouse" Krasnoo

Synopsis: When his nemesis kidnaps his wife, a former fighter has no choice but to enter a grueling kickboxing match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Daughter's Keeper

Actors: Nicholas Guest, Ana Padrão, Jocelyn Broderick

Synopsis: An American writer (Nicholas Guest) living in England takes his family and their new nanny (Ana Padrão) on a trip to Africa while his wife (Jocelyn Broderick), a reporter, is away on an assignment. He has an affair with the nanny, who turns out to be a nutcase who becomes insanely jealous when the Read More

The Joy Luck Club

Actors: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Read More

Nemesis

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: Set in a WW III-decimated 21st-century Los Angeles in which humans compete with cyborgs, this low-budget special-effects laden thriller chronicles the attempts of a heroic fellow to clean up the town and keep the androids from taking over what's left of the planet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Knights

Synopsis: The venerable character actor Lance Henriksen plays an archetypically Machiavellian leader of bad cyborgs in this sci-fi action drama. Country-western staple Kris Kristofferson co-stars as Gabriel, a good cyborg who teams up with a sexy kick-boxer named Nia (Kathy Long) to fight the robots and Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Message From Nam'

Synopsis: Another of several made-for-TV movies based on the best-selling novels of Danielle Steel, this one stars Jenny Robertson as Paxton Andrews, a sheltered Southern belle who falls for law student Peter Wilson (Steven Eckholdt) on the campus of Berkeley in the late '60s. After Peter is drafted and Read More

Brain Smasher: A Love Story

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Brion James

Synopsis: Andrew Dice Clay trades in dumb yucks for numchucks in Brainsmasher: A Love Story as Ed Molloy, a part-time comic and bouncer who takes on a belligerent gang of ninjas. The story kicks in when supermodel Samantha Crains (Teri Hatcher) receives a red lotus flower from her sister that has to be Read More

Disaster in Time

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Marilyn Lightstone, Emilia Crow, Jim Haynie

Synopsis: An innkeeper in a small Midwestern town is concerned about strange boarders, whom he believes are visitors from the future. He struggles to save his daughter from being taken by the aliens and to keep the town from being destroyed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Magic Bubble

Actors: Diane Salinger, John Calvin, Wallace Shawn, George Clooney, Priscilla Pointer, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Julia Cole (Diane Salinger) is more than a little upset about turning 40. She's depressed about growing older, distressed at the lack of attention from her workaholic husband Charles (John Calvin), and bored with being a stay-at-home wife and mother. On her birthday, she finds a bottle of Read More

Forever: A Ghost of A Love Story

Synopsis: Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story was inspired by the unsolved murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. High-living music video director Keith Coogan moves into a crumbling Hollywood mansion. Here he is visited by a friendly and very beautiful wraith (Sean Young), who turns out to Read More

Chrome Soldiers

Actors: Gary Busey, Ray Sharkey, William Atherton, Yaphet Kotto, Norm Skaggs

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable actioner a quintet of Vietnam vets team up and hop on their Harleys to round up a no-good gang of drug dealers from their tiny home town. They also take on the town's crooked politicians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dollman

Actors: Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Intergalactic super-cop Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson) crash-lands in the Bronx while on a cosmic head hunt, only to find himself just over a foot tall in our world. Bardo spends time bringing street gangs to justice while pursuing his original quarry. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Au Pair

Actors: Nicholas Guest

Synopsis: It's probably not a good idea to take your family into a war zone, even if you have been assigned to cover the events taking place there. However, this is just what Max, a journalist, does, perhaps because he doesn't know how long he will be away. Once they get to the war-torn country, they hire Read More

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Diane Ladd, John Randolph

Synopsis: Chevy Chase, star of National Lampoon's Vacation and its sequel, is back as the paterfamilias of the Griswold family (including Beverly D'Angelo as his missus) to skewer the Yuletide season. Chevy mugs, trips, falls, mashes his fingers and stubs his toes as he prepares to invite numerous Read More

Hunter: Shillelagh

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) investigates when a gun manufacturer who is linked to an Irish terrorist organization is murdered. At the same time, Hunter's boss Devane (Charles Hallahan) prepares to pop the question to his sweetheart Maureen Delaney (Fionnula Flannagan). Inasmuch as Maureen's brother Sean Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: This 60-minute TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 doppelganger yarn stars Anthony Andrews as kindly London medico Henry Jekyll. Fascinated by the concept that within every man lurks two separate personalities--one good, one evil--Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion that releases his own Read More

The Assassin

Actors: Steve Railsback

Synopsis: Steve Railsback, the star of the cult favorite The Stunt Man, carries the ball in Assassin. Railsback plays a CIA agent, assigned to protect a senator. When the politician is killed, the principal suspect is Our Hero. Left to his own devices, Railsback unearths one of those government conspiracies Read More

Appointment with Death

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium created by Agatha Christie. In 1937, Mrs. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie) is on an archeological dig in Palestine; she inherited the wealth of her recently deceased husband and Read More

Bright Lights, Big City

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable Kansan who comes to the Big Apple to take a job at a major magazine. It isn't long before he falls into the twin traps of drug and alcohol abuse. His only hope for Read More

What Price Victory

Criminal Act

Actors: Catherine Bach, Charlene Dallas, Nicholas Guest, John Saxon, Cork Hubbert

Synopsis: In the quest to find out whatever prompted a rat to emerge in their newspaper's bathroom, Pam Weiss (Catherine Bach) and Sharon Fields (Charlene Dallas) head down to the tunnels that begin in their building's basement. They imagine all sorts of scenes from horror movies, but instead discover a Read More

Down Twisted

Actors: Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, Trudi Dochtermann, Thom Matthews, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this well-wrought, fast-paced caper flick, a naive, good-hearted waitress doesn't think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Unfortunately, her help lands her in Central America fleeing for her life with a grungy mercenary. They are chased because the two are believed to have possession Read More

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Synopsis: In this unique interpretation of the great detective, the body of Sherlock Holmes has been in suspended animation for over 85 years. It is brought back by one of Watson's descendants and no sooner does Holmes come to than he is out solving a mystery in Boston. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Children of a Lesser God

Actors: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Allison Gompf

Synopsis: Children of a Lesser God is a love story about a speech teacher who falls for a beautiful yet distant deaf girl in a small New England school for the deaf, and the obstacles that they face due to their differences. William Hurt plays James Leeds, a renegade teacher with an unconventional approach Read More

North Beach and Rawhide

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, an ex-con meets constant opposition from avaricious land owners who want the land on which he has set up a ranch-style juvenile correctional facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas Read More

Trading Places

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis

Synopsis: The "nature-nurture" theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis's hit comedy. The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. Curious as to what might happen if Read More

The Ambush Murders

Actors: James Brolin, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: The fact-based TV movie The Ambush Murders was adapted from a book by Ben Bradlee Jr. Dorian Harewood plays an African-American political activist who is loyal to his ideals and faithful to his friends and family. After two white policemen are killed, Harewood is charge with the crime. 49 months Read More

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Ricardo Montalban, George Takei, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: Because it is the simplest of the Star Trek theatrical films, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. William Shatner plays Admiral Kirk (remember his promotion?) who escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Read More

A Small Killing

Synopsis: A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord's assassin to justice in this memorable made-for-television drama. Along the way, the two disparate partners find themselves falling in love. The story is based Read More

The Long Riders

Actors: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the Read More

Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris

Synopsis: Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris is a fact-based TV movie, inspired by a book by Charles L. Mee. Penelope Milford stars as Kathy Morris, a 22-year-old Manhattan-based songstress. Kathy undergoes brain surgery to halt her occasional seizures. Unfortunately, her brain begins swelling, resulting in Read More

The Bell Jar

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning as a highly educated, motivated, and capable young woman to being completely incapacitated at the hands of mental illness. Sadly, Plath committed suicide at age 30 Read More

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

Synopsis: Alan Arkin stars as real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Russian vessel. When his ship docks at Martha's Vineyard in early 1970, Kudirka makes a dramatic leap from the deck, landing on the American coast guard cutter Vigilant. He announces that he wishes to Read More