Surprising Facts About This Is Spinal Tap— The OG Mockumentary

The British Are Coming

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Although Guest, Shearer, and McKean put on a convincing English accent, none of the actors are actually British. David Kaff (who plays keyboardist Viv Savage) and R.J. Parnell (who plays drummer Mick Shrimpton), however, are from across the pond. Christopher Guest was raised in the U.S. and Britain.

Guest’s father was the fourth Baron Haden-Guest, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Christopher Guest held the title of the fifth Baron in 1996. His wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, is, therefore, the current Lady Haden-Guest. Anthony Haden-Guest, Christopher’s older half-brother, was born out of wedlock and is not in the line of succession.