Chris Sarandon
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.4881 |
| Birthday | 1942-07-24 |
| Place of Birth | Beckley, West Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As | Christopher Sarandon Jr. , Christopher Sarandon , |
1975
Dog Day Afternoon
7.851/3432
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turn...
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Dog Day Afternoon
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
7.7/6
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
1986
Frankenstein
7/3
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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Frankenstein
1988
Child's Play
6.765/3421
After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year-old son Andy, which unl...
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Child's Play
1987
The Princess Bride
7.705/5200
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid...
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The Princess Bride
1991
The Resurrected
6.163/135
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
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The Resurrected
1985
Fright Night
7.046/1581
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor;...
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Fright Night
1983
The Osterman Weekend
5.6/200
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...
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The Osterman Weekend
1996
Bordello of Blood
5.953/424
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...
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Bordello of Blood
1995
Just Cause
6.254/637
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...
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Just Cause
1993
The Nightmare Before Christmas
7.833/10460
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...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
2008
My Sassy Girl
6.783/414
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
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My Sassy Girl
1984
Protocol
5.4/96
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.
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Protocol
1979
Cuba
5.5/53
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...
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Cuba
2004
The Dead Will Tell
4.944/18
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
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The Dead Will Tell
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
6.143/21
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1977
The Sentinel
6.108/232
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a B...
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The Sentinel
1989
Slaves of New York
5.412/17
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion while hoping for love and...
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Slaves of New York
2005
Loggerheads
5.913/23
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...
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Loggerheads
2012
Safe
6.497/2724
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...
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Safe
2000
Race Against Time
5.2/9
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...
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Race Against Time
1994
Dark Tide
4.176/17
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...
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Dark Tide
1999
Let the Devil Wear Black
4.231/13
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
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Let the Devil Wear Black
2011
Fright Night
6.247/2156
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...
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Fright Night
1976
Lipstick
5.347/59
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...
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Lipstick
1996
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
10/1
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portr...
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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
1989
Collision Course
4.216/37
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.
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Collision Course
1995
No Greater Love
5.182/11
When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield shoulders the responsibility of raising her three younger siblings...
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No Greater Love
1987
Mayflower Madam
4.333/6
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...
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Mayflower Madam
1981
Broken Promise
7.333/3
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger broth...
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Broken Promise
1992
Lincoln and the War Within
8/1
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...
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Lincoln and the War Within
2000
Reaper
5.4/5
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...
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Reaper
1997
Road Ends
4.6/9
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a...
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Road Ends
1974
Thursday's Game
6.5/6
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...
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Thursday's Game
1979
You Can't Go Home Again
3/3
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world o...
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You Can't Go Home Again
1995
Temptress
4/12
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...
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Temptress
1989
Forced March
6.6/5
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...
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Forced March
1996
Terminal Justice
4.917/18
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...
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Terminal Justice
2020
Disclosure
7.82/147
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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Disclosure
2008
Cyrano de Bergerac
6.4/4
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
1994
David's Mother
8.313/8
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...
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David's Mother
1996
The Vampyre Wars
0/0
1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
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The Vampyre Wars
2013
Curse of Chucky
6/1728
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key...
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Curse of Chucky
1990
Whispers
3.853/17
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...
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Whispers
1996
Edie & Pen
5.591/11
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...
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Edie & Pen
2015
I Smile Back
6.139/126
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with t...
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I Smile Back
2015
Frank the Bastard
2.333/3
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...
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Frank the Bastard
1990
Shangri-La Plaza
0/0
"Shangri-La Plaza" is a musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. The all-sung “Shangri-La Plaza” was directed by Nick Castle and written and cre...
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Shangri-La Plaza
2014
Big Stone Gap
5.885/74
A story centered on a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
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Big Stone Gap
1988
Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
9/2
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...
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Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
2007
The Chosen One
6.4/5
...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...
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The Chosen One
1985
This Child Is Mine
7.667/3
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.
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This Child Is Mine
2016
You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
6.8/16
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...
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
1995
When the Dark Man Calls
7/1
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...
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When the Dark Man Calls
1992
A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
4.429/7
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1980
The Day Christ Died
6.333/6
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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The Day Christ Died
1998
Little Men
5.5/4
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...
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Little Men
2006
The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
10/3
In the summer of 1953, Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring Italy with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara—a be...
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The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
1990
The Stranger Within
5.833/9
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
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The Stranger Within
2001
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
7.6/7
A documentary about the making of the 1987 film "The Princess Bride" with original archive footage and interviews with cast members. Produced for "The...
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As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
1989
Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
6.5/4
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.
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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
1974
The Satan Murders
9/1
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...
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The Satan Murders
2006
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
7.8/2
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."
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The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
1997
American Perfekt
6.479/24
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m...
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American Perfekt
1986
Liberty
6/2
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.
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Liberty
2020
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
6.3/3
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....
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A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2010
Multiple Sarcasms
5.9/17
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...
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Multiple Sarcasms
2001
Perfume
4.821/28
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...
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Perfume
2004
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
7/2
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
1988
Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
6.7/19
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).
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Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
2001
Rescued from the Closet
6.5/2
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the his...
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Rescued from the Closet
2024
Doc of Chucky
7.8/5
The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine H...
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Doc of Chucky
2024
Death Wish
0/0
After losing his grandfather and job to COVID-19, an enraged deliveryman decides to do the only logical thing: hunt down and kill every plague spreade...
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Death Wish
2024
Best Christmas Movies Ever!
7/1
Over 50 stars, writers, athletes, directors and critics share the spirit of the season.
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Best Christmas Movies Ever!
2002
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
7.667/3
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2004
Voices in Wartime
6/2
Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists, and...
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Voices in Wartime
2008
Cyrano de Bergerac
0/0
Made-for-television adaptation of the 1897 play, videotaped at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, in New York City.
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