Known for Acting
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).
Born
July 24, 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
Beckley, West Virginia, USA
Filmography
77 films, 25 shows


Best Christmas Movies Ever!
2024 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
Over 50 stars, writers, athletes, directors and critics share the spirit of the season.


Doc of Chucky
2024 · 4h 55m
country: United States
The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, John Waters, Fiona Dourif, Perrey Reeves, Gerrit Graham, David Kirschner, and dozens more.


Death Wish
2024 · 15m
country: United States
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 spreader who won’t wear a damn mask.


A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020 · 3h 2m
country: United States
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. The 3-hour virtual reunion included director Rob Reiner and actors Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, and Christopher Guest. A Q&A after was moderated by Patton Oswalt. Guest stars stepped in for actors who were not available, including Finn Wolfhard, Josh Gad, Eric Idle, and Whoopi Goldberg.


Disclosure
2020 · 1h 48m
country: United States
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.


Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017 · 1h 24m
country: United States
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.


You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
2016 · 3h 37m
country: United Kingdom
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 photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.


I Smile Back
2015 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.


Frank the Bastard
2015 · 1h 51m
country: Unknown
A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.


Big Stone Gap
2014 · 1h 33m
country: United States
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.


Curse of Chucky
2013 · 1h 37m
country: United States
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 to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.


Safe
2012 · 1h 34m
country: India
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, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.


Fright Night
2011 · 1h 46m
country: India
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 magician.


Multiple Sarcasms
2010 · 1h 37m
country: United States
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, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ends in a divorce, the play is success and although his life is different than it was, he is happier.


Cyrano de Bergerac
2008 · 2h 23m
country: Unknown
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.


My Sassy Girl
2008 · 1h 36m
country: South Korea
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
2008
country: United States
Made-for-television adaptation of the 1897 play, videotaped at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, in New York City.


The Chosen One
2007 · 1h 19m
country: United States
...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 church tells Lou that he's The Chosen One the man from prophecy who must travel to Kansas, talk to God and deliver the world into a new age. Together with his cantankerous old roommate Zeb, his scientist co-worker Donna, and a certain Prince of Hell know


The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
2006 · 2h 21m
country: United States
In the summer of 1953, Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring Italy with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara—a beautiful, surprisingly childish young woman—loses her hat in a sudden gust. As if guided by an unseen hand, the hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, who returns it to Clara. This brief episode, charged with coincidence and fate, sparks an immediate and intense romance between Clara and Fabrizio. Margaret, extremely protective of her daughter, attempts to keep Clara and Fabrizio apart.


The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
2006 · 58m
country: Unknown
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."


Loggerheads
2005 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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 gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.


The Dead Will Tell
2004 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.


Voices in Wartime
2004 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists, and historians, it reveals how war affects individuals and societies across time and place. The film features poets from around the world – from Homer and Wilfred Owen to Shoda Shinoe and modern writers in Iraq and Nigeria – showing how poetry expresses the pain, trauma, and truth of conflict. By linking verse with real-life accounts, Voices in Wartime highlights how poetry helps us understand the emotional and moral impact of war.


Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".


AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002 · 3h
country: United States
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.


As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001 · 28m
country: United States
A documentary about the making of the 1987 film "The Princess Bride" with original archive footage and interviews with cast members. Produced for "The Princess Bride" DVD.


Rescued from the Closet
2001 · 56m
country: United States
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the history and impact of LGBT representation in cinema, providing insights into the portrayal and evolution of LGBT characters and themes within the film industry.


Perfume
2001 · 1h 46m
country: Unknown
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 City.


Race Against Time
2000 · 1h 26m
country: United States
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 bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he goes on the run


Reaper
2000 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
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 circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.


Let the Devil Wear Black
1999 · 1h 29m
country: Unknown
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.


Little Men
1998 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
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 Jo and her husband -- and they soon learn academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.


Road Ends
1997 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a problem. He flees, hiding out at a near-vacant California Central Valley inn where innkeeper Kat (Mariel Hemingway) is happy to have him sign the register. His presence, however, arouses the suspicions of lone cop Gilchrist (Dennis Hopper). Meanwhile, Fed agent Gere (Peter Coyote) hopes to track Maceda before Orosco's thugs pick up the scent.


American Perfekt
1997 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...


Bordello of Blood
1996 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A seedy private eye gets more than he ever bargained for when a missing persons case leads him to a brothel overseen by the mother of vampires and her lusty army of the undead.


Edie & Pen
1996 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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 abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.


Terminal Justice
1996 · 1h 34m
country: Canada
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 sought-after cybersex star in great danger - Dr. Vivyan, scientist and genius in the field of biotechnology wants her DNA to clone her for his many customers. Sergeant Bobby Chase is assigned to protect her, but can't prevent her from being kidnapped. In order to free Pamela, Chase has to risk his life in a deadly virtual reality game called "Hellraiser"


The Vampyre Wars
1996
country: Unknown
1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund


Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
1996 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portrayed in film and television.


Temptress
1995 · 1h 33m
country: United States
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 develops strange fetishes such as pain and death. Soon, she gets out of control and only her boyfriend Matt has the power in his love to exorcise the demon spirits from Karin's body.


When the Dark Man Calls
1995 · 1h 29m
country: United States
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 out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she has.


No Greater Love
1995 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield shoulders the responsibility of raising her three younger siblings and taking over the reins at her father's newspaper. Although she has no shortage of new would-be suitors, the memory of her lost love continues to haunt her, so she focuses instead on providing a stable home for the children, rather than marrying. But her forcefulness alienates some of the kids, who have plans of their own and rebel against her. Can she hold her fractured family together, and will she ever overcome her ghosts to shake herself out of martyrdom and have a real life of her own?


Just Cause
1995 · 1h 42m
country: United States
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 murder of a child.


David's Mother
1994 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
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 dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.


Dark Tide
1994 · 1h 34m
country: United States
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 attracts the attention of hired hand Dak, and when Tim becomes bitterly obsessed with his faltering job, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair, which leads the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events.


The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 · 1h 16m
country: United States
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 and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.


Lincoln and the War Within
1992 · 1h 14m
country: United States
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 and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.


A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1992 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.


The Resurrected
1991 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.


Whispers
1990 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
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 the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.


The Stranger Within
1990 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
Shangri-La Plaza
Shangri-La Plaza
1990 · 30m
country: Unknown
"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 created by Mark Mueller and Nick Castle. It starred The Office’s Melora Hardin, Chris Sarandon and Broadway’s original Beast and Javert Terrence Mann, a two-time Tony Award Nominee for Best Actor. It also featured the very young tap dancing phenomenon Savion Glover in one of his first television appearances. The pilot was filmed on location in an actual mini-mall at the corner of Vineland Avenue and Burbank Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.


Forced March
1989 · 1h 40m
country: Hungary
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 found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.


Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
1989 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
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.


Collision Course
1989 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.


Slaves of New York
1989 · 2h 4m
country: United States
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 acceptance. Instead they find high rent, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.


Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
1988 · 1h 29m
country: United States
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 living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But Niki's friendship with him and her belief in freedom unwittingly bring the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan to her very doorstep. Full of courage and passion, Niki challenges the powerful Klan and, at the same time, must overcome her own fears to help the townspeople survive a horrible flu epidemic.


Child's Play
1988 · 1h 27m
country: United States
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 six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.


Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
1988 · 6m
country: Unknown
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).


Mayflower Madam
1987 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class prostitution-where money talks...pleasure sells...and discretion is everything.


The Princess Bride
1987 · 1h 39m
country: United States
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.


Frankenstein
1986 · 46m
country: United States
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.


Liberty
1986 · 2h 13m
country: United States
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.


This Child Is Mine
1985 · 1h 50m
country: United States
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.


Fright Night
1985 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.


Protocol
1984 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.


The Osterman Weekend
1983 · 1h 43m
country: United States
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 that threatens national security.


Broken Promise
1981 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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 brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.


A Tale of Two Cities
1980 · 2h 42m
country: United States
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.


The Day Christ Died
1980 · 2h 22m
country: United States
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.


Cuba
1979 · 2h 2m
country: United States
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 a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.


You Can't Go Home Again
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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 of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.


The Sentinel
1977 · 1h 32m
country: United States
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 Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.


Lipstick
1976 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A top fashion model seeks justice after getting sexually assaulted by her teenage sister's obsessive music teacher.


Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · 2h 4m
country: United States
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 turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.


Thursday's Game
1974 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday nights?


The Satan Murders
1974 · 1h 14m
country: United States
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 doesn't play games.