A 1980s actor who starred in a pair of top-flight Hollywood franchises was spotted out and about this week in sunny .
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A 1980s actor who starred in a pair of top-flight Hollywood franchises was spotted out and about this week in sunny Los Angeles.He featured with Jamie Lee Curti...
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He featured with in one of the pictures and held a major role in one of the follow-up movies in the Jaws franchise.
Then he led the cast of a 1984 sci-fi epic that performed tepidly at the box office but has earned a reputation as a cult classic among devotees of the genre.
Over the years he has appeared on TV shows ranging from Knots Landing and St. Elsewhere to The X-Files and House, and he also played Johnny Cash on Broadway.
Now 65 with a bushy white beard, he cut a casual figure in a red t-shirt and a set of fashionably faded jeans during his latest sighting in Southern .
Can you guess who he is?
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A 1980s actor who starred in to top-flight Hollywood franchises was spotted out and about this week in sunny Los Angeles
Now 65 with a bushy white beard, he cut a casual figure in a red t-shirt and a set of fashionably faded jeans during his latest sighting in Southern California
He is none other than Lance Guest, known as Jimmy Lloyd in Halloween II and then as Martin Jr in the fourth and final Jaws film Jaws: The Revenge.
Born and raised in rural Saratoga, California, he performed in school plays in high school and was sufficiently infected by the acting bug to study the craft at UCLA, where he was awarded the Shakespeare award, via his IMDb biography.
He is none other than Lance Guest, who is pictured (left) with Dan O'Herlihy (right) in the 1984 sci-fi picture The Last Starfighter, which has emerged as a cult classic
Then in 1987 he featured in Jaws: The Revenge, a mega-flop that killed the film series and in which he is pictured with Mario Van Peebles (left)
In 1981 Guest (right) featured in Halloween II as Jimmy, a teen hospital orderly who treats Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode (center) for the injuries she sustained in the first film
In 1984 he played the lead role of an American teenager called Alex Rogan dragged into an interstellar war between space aliens in Nick Castle's The Last Starfighter.
With a cast including soap star Catherine Mary Stewart, Oscar nominee Dan O'Herlihy The Music Man icon Robert Preston, the picture performed only moderately well upon its release but has since earned a dedicated cult following.
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Then in 1987 he featured in Jaws: The Revenge, a mega-flop that killed the film series in spite of a cast that included such names as Michael Caine.
The film was led by Lorraine Gay, reprising her longstanding franchise role of Ellen Brody, the wife of the police chief Martin Brady played by Roy Schneider.
By the events of Jaws: The Revenge, Martin is dead but his son Martin Jr - played by Guest - is one of the major characters in the action.
Born and raised in rural Saratoga, California, he performed in school plays in high school and was sufficiently infected by the acting bug to study the craft at UCLA
'Rob Reiner as Meathead from All in the Family inspired me to be an actor,' he recalled in an interview with the blog Indie Mac User
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His co-stars included Mario Van Peebles and tragic child star Judith Barsi, who went on to play Ducky in Don Bluth's The Land Before Time before she was killed by her father in a shocking murder-suicide that also claimed the life of her mother.
Although Guest's movie stardom peaked in the 1980s, he has enjoyed a longstanding career onstage including an acclaimed Broadway performance as Johnny Cash.
He played the country legend in the play Million Dollar Quartet, about the famous 1956 recording session with Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Guest began playing the role on Broadway when it opened in 2010, and continued in the part after the show shifted to off-Broadway in 2011 owing to flagging ticket sales.
He has also guest-starred on TV shows including Dallas, St. Elsewhere, Knots Landing, The Wonder Years, The X-Files, JAG, NYPD Blue, Jericho and House.
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