Rob Guest was an accomplished British-born theater actor from New Zealand who rose to fame in the 1990s with a series of major roles in prominent Australian theater productions, most notably Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. Born Robert John Guest on July 17, 1950, in Birmingham, England, he moved to New Zealand with his family at age 13 and attended school in Auckland. His performance career as a theater actor took flight in the early '70s. He also established himself as a capable pop singer and television actor around this time, though his theater work proved cons...