Chris Sarandon

Chris Sarandon

Nascimento : 1942-07-24, Beckley, West Virginia, USA

História

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).

Perfil

Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon

Filmes

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
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. The 3-hour virtual reunion included director Rob Reiner and actors Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shaw, 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.
Revelação
Leon / Self (archive footage)
Neste documentário, nomes influentes da arte e do pensamento transgêneros analisam o impacto de Hollywood na comunidade trans.
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
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 photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.
I Smile Back
Roger
Nem tudo está bem no subúrbio. Laney Brooks, uma esposa e mãe no limite, parou de tomar seus remédios, substituindo drogas recreativas e os homens errados. Com a destruição da sua família se aproximando, Laney faz uma última e desesperada tentativa de redenção.
Frank the Bastard
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 thought she knew about her family, past and herself.
A Eterna Namorada
Mario Barbari
Na pequena cidade de Big Stone Gap, nas Montanhas Apalaches da Virgínia, Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) é uma farmacéutica de 35 anos auto-proclmada a solteirona da cidade. Ela leva uma amável vida ao redor de amigos e hobbies, até um dia fatídico em 1978, quando ela percebe que não é nada do que imaginava que era. Cercada por propostas de casamento, parentes gananciosos e celebrações, Ave Maria Mulligan organiza uma viagem que pode mudar sua visão de mundo e seu lugar nele.
A Maldição de Chucky
Mike Norris (archive footage) (uncredited)
O boneco possuído por um assassino sádico está de volta, desta vez para aterrorizar uma jovem presa a uma cadeira de rodas e a sua família.
O Código
Mayor Tremello
Luke é um ex-policial durão que salvou uma menina oriental das mãos de bandidos dentro de um trem do metrô. O único problema é que ele não fazia ideia de que ela era portadora de uma informação extremamente importante, capaz de mobilizar a máfia russa, chinesa e ainda policiais corruptos. Agora, ele também tem o que todos querem e vai defender com a própria vida para que a justiça seja feita, nem que para isso seja necessário começar uma guerra urbana.
A Hora do Espanto
Jay Dee
Charley está encantado por sua namorada Amy, o que faz com que ele não dê muita atenção ao papo do amigo Ed sobre o fato do novo vizinho dele, Jerry Dandridge, ser um vampiro. Na verdade, nem mesmo sua mãe Jane acredita que ele possa fazer mal a alguém, mas o sumiço de Ed faz com que Charley comece a investigar e sua descoberta coloca todos em perigo. A única salvação parece ser Peter Vincent, famoso mágico da cidade que parece entender de vampiros, mas depois afirma ser tudo fantasia. E agora?
O Roteiro da Minha Vida
Larry
Nova York, 1979: O casamento de Gabriel e Annie está desmoronando, com apenas a filha o segurando. Gabriel largou seu emprego de arquiteto para se tornar um dramaturgo, escrevendo sobre sua vida. Annie e Liz vão embora.
Cyrano de Bergerac
De Guiche
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Ironias do Amor
Dr. Roark
Charlie é um estudante tímido e idealista que nunca conheceu uma paixão. Quando ele salva da morte a bela Jordan, sua vida muda para sempre. Os dois se aproximam e Jordan envolve Charlie em um excêntrico jogo de sedução. Para conquistar seu amor, Charlie será testado à exaustão. Quanto irá suportar até ganhar esta garota complicada?
The Chosen One
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 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)
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 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'
Self
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."
Tartarugas também choram
Rev. Robert Austin
“Tartarugas também choram” combina três histórias distintas, porém interligadas, que acontecem em diferentes partes da Carolina do Norte. É dia das Mães, 1999, e um jovem andarilho, interessado em tartarugas, inicia um relacionamento com George, dono do motel local. No dia das Mães, 2000, Elizabeth, mãe adotiva de Mark, se pergunta por onde andará seu filho sumido. É dia das Mães, 2001, quando Grace, mãe biológica de Mark, larga seu emprego para dar início a uma busca pelo filho que ela abandonara ao nascer. Essa busca terminará por unir as três histórias.
The Dead Will Tell
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'
Self
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
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 members.
Rescued from the Closet
Himself
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
Perfume
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 City.
Race Against Time
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 bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he goes on the run
Reaper
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 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
Jack's Father
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
Little Men
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 Jo and her husband -- and they soon learn academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.
Fim da Linha
Esteban Maceda
A busca por Maceda, informante infiltrado em gangue de traficantes, leva ex-agente do FBI a pequena cidade. Ele sabe que os bandidos estão no encalço de Maceda e junta-se a ele, para tentar salvar sua vida.
American Perfekt
Sammy
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 ...
Contos do Além Túmulo: O Bordel de Sangue
Reverend Current
Ao ser trazida de volta á vida, Lilith, a rainha dos vampiros, abre um bordel nos subterrâneos de uma funerária para atrair suas vítimas, Após o desaparecimento do irmão de uma linda jovem, o esperto detetive Rafe Guttman descobre o sangrento covil da morta-viva e desvenda sua conexão com o pastor Jummy Current-dono de um milionário império religiosos e patrão da irmã do desaparecido
Edie & Pen
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 abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.
Terminal Justice
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 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 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
When the Dark Man Calls
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 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
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 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?
Justa Causa
Lyle Morgan
Um conceituado professor de Harvard, que não advoga há 25 anos e é contra a pena de morte, é convencido, após uma relutância inicial, em tentar obter provas que provem a inocência de um jovem negro, que está no corredor da morte acusado de ter estuprado e assassinado de forma extremamente brutal uma jovem. À medida que ele investiga uma série de revelações surpreendentes vem à tona.
Temptress
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 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.
David's Mother
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 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.
Maré Violenta
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 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.
O Estranho Mundo de Jack
Jack Skellington (voice)
Jack Skellington é o Rei das Abóboras na cidade de Halloween mas está entediado após anos a repetir sempre as mesmas coisas na Noite das Bruxas. Certo dia, por acaso, descobre a cidade do Natal e fica tão impressionado que decide trazer o espírito natalício para as festas do Halloween.
Lincoln and the War Within
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 and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.
A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Paul Solomon
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
O Filho das Trevas
Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen
A esposa de Charles Dexter Ward contrata um detetive para descobrir o que o marido faz enquanto fica na macabra cabana que é de sua família por gerações. Mas o que há lá pode surpreendê-la de forma negativa. Baseado na obra de H.P. Lovecraft.
Whispers
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 attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.
The Stranger Within
Dan
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
Forced March
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 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
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.
Batendo de Frente
Philip Madras
Tony Costas, um impetuoso, detestável, sexista e racista policial de Detroit que a tempos deixou de seguir as regras tem que trabalhar com o inspetor Fuji, um disciplinado policial japonês que está em Detroit para investigar um caso que envolve um engenheiro japonês. A dupla precisa conseguir trabalhar junta para resolver o caso.
Slaves of New York
Victor Okrent
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 acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Adeus à Liberdade
George Janus
Niki Janus e seus pais fogem da Grécia no final da primeira Guerra Mundial para uma nova vida em Montgomery, West Virginia. Eles estão ansiosos para um novo começo com a mãe Olympia esperando um bebê e a adolescente de 17 anos Niki ansiosa para fazer novos amigos. Mas nem tudo é o que eles esperavam em sua nova casa, especialmente o extremo preconceito contra os habitantes que a cidade considera "diferente", incluindo os novos imigrantes, além da tolerância da população com a Ku Klux Klan.
Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
Himself
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).
Brinquedo Assassino
Mike Norris
Após a babá do garotinho de seis anos, Andy Barclay, ser violentamente arremessada pela janela, ninguém acredita nele quando diz que "Chucky", o boneco que ganhou de aniversário, foi o culpado! Até que as coisas começam a dar errado... mortalmente errado. E quando uma série de terríveis assassinatos leva um detetive de volta ao mesmo brinquedo, ele descobre que o verdadeiro terror tinha apenas começado – o boneco perturbado planeja transferir seu espírito mau para um ser vivo – o pequeno Andy.
Modelos de Luxo
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 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.
A Princesa Prometida
Prince Humperdinck
A princesa Buttercup é raptada por uma bizarra gangue com um plano mirabolante para criar um incidente internacional. Seus membros logo descobrem que estão sendo perseguidos pelo pirata Roberts, que pode ser também Westley, o único - porém já esquecido - amor da princesa. Uma combinação bizarra de lutas de capa e espada, aventura, fantasia e comédia. Um divertidíssimo trabalho do diretor Rob Reiner.
Frankenstein
The Creature
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Liberty
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
Craig Wilkerson
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.
A Hora do Espanto
Jerry Dandrige
O estudante do ensino médio Charley Brewster descobre acidentalmente a verdadeira e assustadora natureza de Jerry Dandrige, seu elegante e enigmático novo vizinho, mas ninguém parece disposto a acreditar nele.
Trapalhadas na Casa Branca
Michael Ransome
A garçonete Sunny Davis (Goldie Hawn) testemunha um atentado contra autoridade árabe e salva sua vida ao impedir o assassino. Por causa disso, vira celebridade no país inteiro. Políticos inescrupulosos resolvem aproveitar a fama da moça para convidá-la a integrar o Departamento de Protocolo - mas cheios de segundas intenções.
O Casal Osterman
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 that threatens national security.
Broken Promise
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 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
Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
The Day Christ Died
Jesus Christ
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
Cuba
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 a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
You Can't Go Home Again
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 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.
A Sentinela dos Malditos
Michael Lerman
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. After experiencing strange occurrences, she begins to realize her building houses a sinister evil.
A Violentada
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 justice will be served.
Um Dia de Cão
Leon Shermer
Quando o inexperiente criminoso Sonny Wortzik lidera um assalto a um banco em Brooklyn, as coisas rapidamente dão errado e uma situação de refém se desenvolve. Sonny e seu cúmplice, Sal Naturile, tentam desesperadamente permanecer em controle, mas a mídia vai à loucura e o FBI chega, criando uma tensão ainda maior. Gradualmente, os verdadeiros motivos para o roubo são revelados.
Thursday's Game
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 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
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 doesn't play games.
Shangri-La Plaza
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 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.