Christopher Sarandon Jr. (born July 24, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Jerry Dandrige in Fright Night (1985), Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (1987), Detective Mike Norris in Child’s Play (1988), and Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
Chris Sarandon Biography / Wiki
| Name | Chris Sarandon |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Beckley, West Virginia, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1942-07-24 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday |
Chris Sarandon Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Frankenstein | The Creature | 1987-01-01 | An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses…. |
| Fright Night | Jerry Dandrige | 1985-08-02 | Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; … |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Jack Skellington (voice) | 1993-10-09 | Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus an… |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay | 1980-12-02 | Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles … |
| Dark Tide | Tim | 1994-01-19 | Andi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snakes for their venom. Her flagrant sensuality attrac… |
| Reaper | Luke Sinclair | 2000-03-15 | Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumsta… |
| Forced March | Ben Kline / Miklos Radnoti | 1989-11-03 | Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was f… |
| You’re So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night | Himself | 2016-12-02 | An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare … |
| The Day Christ Died | Jesus Christ | 1980-03-26 | The Crucifixion of Christ seen more from a political and historical point of view than a spiritual one…. |
| Liberty | Jacque Marchant | 1986-06-22 | Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation…. |
| Broken Promise | Bud Griggs | 1981-05-05 | Abandoned by their parents, the young children of the Clawson family are put in the care of local authorities. However, rather than being kept togethe… |
| Lincoln and the War Within | Abraham Lincoln | 1992-12-01 | First few weeks of Lincoln’s presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North … |
| Child’s Play | Mike Norris | 1988-11-08 | A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer…. |
| Protocol | Michael Ransome | 1984-12-21 | A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar’s life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal…. |
| The Sentinel | Michael Lerman | 1977-01-07 | A New York City model with a troubled past relocates to an apartment in a brownstone building where the only other tenant is a withdrawn blind priest…. |
| Slaves of New York | Victor Okrent | 1989-03-18 | Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and … |
| Safe | Mayor Tremello | 2012-04-16 | After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who’s been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, th… |
| Lipstick | Gordon Stuart | 1976-04-02 | An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she’s slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But j… |
| Mayflower Madam | Matt Whittington | 1987-11-15 | Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an e… |
| You Can’t Go Home Again | George Webber | 1979-04-25 | A young writer tries to make it in the 1920s New York…. |
| Temptress | Matt Christianson | 1995-01-01 | Karin brings a statue home from her travels to Asia and it soon begins to have a strange effect on her. She has an insatiable sexual appetite and deve… |
| Виртуални убийÑтва | Reginald Matthews | 1996-04-01 | In 2008 cybersex can only be surpassed by one thing: Cloned women, especially created for their clients. This puts Pamela Travis, a famous and much so… |
| Goodbye, Miss 4th of July | George Janus | 1988-12-03 | The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin… |
| This Child Is Mine | Craig Wilkerson | 1985-11-04 | An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents…. |
| When the Dark Man Calls | Lloyd Carson | 1995-06-14 | A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is … |
| A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story | Paul Solomon | 1992-09-13 | A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair…. |
| Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy | John Lenczowski | 1989-08-20 | Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident…. |
| The Resurrected | Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen | 1991-10-06 | Charles Dexter Ward’s wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for cen… |
| Collision Course | Philip Madras | 1989-04-22 | A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger…. |
| Road Ends | Esteban Maceda | 1997-10-05 | Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a… |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | De Guiche | 2008-12-26 | The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves…. |
| Whispers | Sgt. Tony Clemenza | 1990-12-07 | A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of … |
| Frank the Bastard | Tristan Pace | 2015-07-28 | A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father’s death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thou… |
| The Chosen One | Zebulon ‘Zeb’ Kirk (voice) | 2007-10-13 | …he’s lost his job, totaled his car, and been attacked by a bear. Just when it seems like life can’t get any worse, the leader of an eccentric churc… |
| The Light in the Piazza (Live from Lincoln Center) | Signor Naccarelli | 2006-06-15 | In the summer of 1953, Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring Italy with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara—a … |
| The Stranger Within | Dan | 1990-11-27 | A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago…. |
| Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child’s Play | Himself | 1988-11-09 | A vintage featurette about the making of Child’s Play (1988)…. |
| Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive | 2017-04-29 | How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery…. | |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Leon Shermer | 1975-08-01 | Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turn… |
| The Princess Bride | Prince Humperdinck | 1987-09-25 | In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid… |
| Bordello of Blood | Reverend Current | 1996-08-16 | Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a… |
| My Sassy Girl | Dr. Roark | 2008-05-26 | A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman…. |
| Loggerheads | Rev. Robert Austin | 2005-10-14 | A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a … |
| Race Against Time | Dr. Anton Stofeles | 2000-07-23 | When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son’s hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bi… |
| No Greater Love | Sam Horowitz | 1995-04-11 | When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield (Rutherford) shoulders the responsibility of raising her three yo… |
| Alpha to Omega: Exposing ‘The Osterman Weekend’ | Himself | 2004-01-22 | Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of “The Osterman Weekend”…. |
| The Osterman Weekend | Joseph Cardone | 1983-10-14 | The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy… |
| The Dead Will Tell | Paul Hamlin | 2004-10-24 | Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé…. |
| David’s Mother | Philip | 1994-04-10 | Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been d… |
| Edie & Pen | Max | 1996-05-10 | In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband a… |
| I Smile Back | Roger | 2015-10-23 | Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with t… |
| The Satan Murders | George | 1974-01-11 | Assured that it’s a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of her irritating husband and finds that the Devil do… |
| A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion | Prince Humperdinck | 2020-09-13 | The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited for a virtual table read hosted by Jason Reitman…. |
| Little Men | Fritz Bhaer | 1998-05-08 | In this adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, two street kids from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by… |
| The Making of Dog Day Afternoon | 2006-02-28 | Chronicling the making of Dog Day Afternoon… | |
| Cuba | Juan Pulido | 1979-12-21 | A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista’s army against Castro’s guerrillas while he also romances… |
| As You Wish: The Story of ‘The Princess Bride’ | 2001-09-04 | A “behinds the scenes” documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with original archive footage and new interviews with cast mem… | |
| Multiple Sarcasms | Larry | 2010-05-07 | Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, El… |
| The Vampyre Wars | 1996-01-01 | 1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund… | |
| Big Stone Gap | Mario Barbari | 2014-10-09 | A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia…. |
| American Perfekt | Sammy | 1997-06-11 | Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m… |
| Let the Devil Wear Black | Jack’s Father | 1999-01-01 | A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered…. |
| Just Cause | Lyle Morgan | 1995-02-17 | A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific… |
| Fright Night | Jay Dee | 2011-08-18 | A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and mag… |
| Curse of Chucky | Mike Norris (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2013-10-04 | After the passing of her mother, Nica Pierce, a young woman in a wheelchair, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny … |
| Thursday’s Game | Counselor | 1974-04-14 | Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they deci… |
| Rescued from the Closet | Himself | 2001-05-29 | A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary “The Celluloid Closet,” on the subject of LGBT representation in film histo… |
| Perfume | Gary Packer | 2001-04-08 | A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci… |
| Disclosure | Leon / Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 | An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have… |
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