Chris Sarandon
Birthday: 1942-07-24
Place of Birth: Beckley, West Virginia, USA
Biography: 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).
Movies
Dog Day Afternoon
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery....
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Frankenstein
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses....
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Child's Play
After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother t...
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The Princess Bride
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley mu...
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The Resurrected
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrify...
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Fright Night
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry ...
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The Osterman Weekend
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a ...
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Bordello of Blood
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy bro...
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Just Cause
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spin...
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My Sassy Girl
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman....
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Protocol
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal....
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Cuba
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army ...
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The Dead Will Tell
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engageme...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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The Sentinel
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...
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Slaves of New York
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward...
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Loggerheads
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome...
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Safe
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themsel...
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Race Against Time
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to...
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Dark Tide
Andi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snak...
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Let the Devil Wear Black
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murd...
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Fright Night
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist th...
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Lipstick
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-sham...
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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historic...
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Collision Course
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger....
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No Greater Love
When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield shoulders the re...
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Mayflower Madam
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Bi...
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Broken Promise
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful ...
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Lincoln and the War Within
First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He h...
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Reaper
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young w...
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Road Ends
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Naje...
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Thursday's Game
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years....
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You Can't Go Home Again
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determi...
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Temptress
Karin brings a statue home from her travels to Asia and it soon begins to have a strange effect on h...
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Forced March
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian w...
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Terminal Justice
In 2008 cybersex can only be surpassed by one thing: Cloned women, especially created for their clie...
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Disclosure
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves....
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David's Mother
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. N...
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Curse of Chucky
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her vi...
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Whispers
A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up a...
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Edie & Pen
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming frie...
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I Smile Back
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She h...
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Frank the Bastard
A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and l...
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Shangri-La Plaza
"Shangri-La Plaza" is a musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. The all-sung “Shangri-La Plaz...
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Big Stone Gap
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her com...
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Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki a...
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The Chosen One
...he's lost his job, totaled his car, and been attacked by a bear. Just when it seems like life can...
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This Child Is Mine
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents....
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring excl...
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When the Dark Man Calls
A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husb...
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair....
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The Day Christ Died
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Cruc...
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Little Men
In this adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, two street kids from Boston find thems...
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The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
In the summer of 1953, Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring Italy with ...
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The Stranger Within
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abdu...
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As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
A "behinds the scenes" documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with origina...
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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983...
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The Satan Murders
Assured that it's a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of ...
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The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."...
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American Perfekt
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimen...
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Liberty
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and t...
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A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited...
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Multiple Sarcasms
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beaut...
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Perfume
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other cha...
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weeken...
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Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988)....
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Rescued from the Closet
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1...
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Doc of Chucky
The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don...
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Death Wish
After losing his grandfather and job to COVID-19, an enraged deliveryman decides to do the only logi...
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Best Christmas Movies Ever!
Over 50 stars, writers, athletes, directors and critics share the spirit of the season....
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema....
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Voices in Wartime
Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Co...
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