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).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Best Christmas Movies Ever!
2024
as Self
Over 50 stars, writers, athletes, directors and critics share the spirit of the season.

Doc of Chucky
2024
as Self
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...
Death Wish
2024
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...

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
as Prince Humperdinck
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....

Disclosure
2020
as Leon / Self (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
2016
as Himself
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 ...

I Smile Back
2015
as Roger
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with t...

Frank the Bastard
2015
as Tristan Pace
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...

Big Stone Gap
2014
as Mario Barbari
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.

Curse of Chucky
2013
as Mike Norris (archive footage) (uncredited)
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 ...

Safe
2012
as Mayor Tremello
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...

Fright Night
2011
as Jay Dee
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...

Multiple Sarcasms
2010
as Larry
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...

Cyrano de Bergerac
2008
as De Guiche
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.

My Sassy Girl
2008
as Dr. Roark
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

The Chosen One
2007
as Zebulon 'Zeb' Kirk (voice)
...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)
2006
as Signor Naccarelli
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...

The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
2006
as Self
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."

Loggerheads
2005
as Robert
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 ...

The Dead Will Tell
2004
as Paul Hamlin
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
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
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
as Self
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...

Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the his...

Perfume
2001
as Gary Packer
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...

Race Against Time
2000
as Dr. Anton Stofeles
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...

Reaper
2000
as Luke Sinclair
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...

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Jack's Father
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Little Men
1998
as Fritz Bhaer
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...

Road Ends
1997
as Esteban Maceda
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a...

American Perfekt
1997
as Sammy
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m...

Bordello of Blood
1996
as Reverend Current
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...

Edie & Pen
1996
as Max
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...

Terminal Justice
1996
as Reginald Matthews
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...

Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
1996
as Self
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portr...

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

When the Dark Man Calls
1995
as Lloyd Carson
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 ...

No Greater Love
1995
as Sam Horowitz
When her parents and fiancé are lost in the Titanic disaster, young Edwina Winfield shoulders the responsibility of raising her three younger siblings...

Just Cause
1995
as Lyle Morgan
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...

Temptress
1995
as Matt Christianson
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...

David's Mother
1994
as Philip
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...

Dark Tide
1994
as Tim
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...

The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993
as Jack Skellington (voice)
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...

Lincoln and the War Within
1992
as Abraham Lincoln
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 ...

A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1992
as Paul Solomon
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.

The Resurrected
1991
as Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

Whispers
1990
as Sgt. Tony Clemenza
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 Stranger Within
1990
as Dan
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
Shangri-La Plaza
1990
as Victorio
"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...

Forced March
1989
as Ben Kline / Miklos Radnoti
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...

Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
1989
as John Lenczowski
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
as Philip Madras
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Slaves of New York
1989
as Victor Okrent
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...

Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
1988
as George Janus
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...

Child's Play
1988
as Mike Norris
An innocent-looking doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who refuses to die.

Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
1988
as Himself
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).

Mayflower Madam
1987
as Matt Whittington
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...

The Princess Bride
1987
as Prince Humperdinck
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid...
Frankenstein
1987
as The Creature
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Liberty
1986
as Jacque Marchant
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
as Craig Wilkerson
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.

Fright Night
1985
as Jerry Dandrige
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; ...

Protocol
1984
as Michael Ransome
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

The Osterman Weekend
1983
as Joseph Cardone
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...

Broken Promise
1981
as Bud Griggs
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...

A Tale of Two Cities
1980
as Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

The Day Christ Died
1980
as Jesus Christ
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.

Cuba
1979
as Juan Pulido
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...

You Can't Go Home Again
1979
as George Webber
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...

The Sentinel
1977
as Michael Lerman
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...

Lipstick
1976
as Gordon Stuart
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...

Dog Day Afternoon
1975
as Leon
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...

Thursday's Game
1974
as Counselor
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...

The Satan Murders
1974
as George
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...