Chris Sarandon

Chris Sarandon

Born: July 24, 1942
in Beckley, West Virginia, USA
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 for Chris Sarandon...

Title: The Holiday Movies That Made Us
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2020
Type: TV
Unwrap the real stories behind these iconic Christmas blockbusters, thanks to insider interviews and behind-the-scenes peeks.
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A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Title: A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Character: Prince Humperdinck
Released: September 13, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Disclosure
Title: Disclosure
Character: Leon / Self (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Title: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Title: You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Character: Himself
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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I Smile Back
Title: I Smile Back
Character: Roger
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Frank the Bastard
Title: Frank the Bastard
Character: Tristan Pace
Released: July 28, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Big Stone Gap
Title: Big Stone Gap
Character: Mario Barbari
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Curse of Chucky
Title: Curse of Chucky
Character: Mike Norris (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Orange Is the New Black
Character: Kip Carnigan
Released: July 11, 2013
Type: TV
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
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Safe
Title: Safe
Character: Mayor Tremello
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Fright Night
Title: Fright Night
Character: Jay Dee
Released: August 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Multiple Sarcasms
Title: Multiple Sarcasms
Character: Larry
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Unusuals
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: TV
The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated: The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: De Guiche
Released: December 26, 2008
Type: Movie
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
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My Sassy Girl
Title: My Sassy Girl
Character: Dr. Roark
Released: May 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
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The Chosen One
Title: The Chosen One
Character: Zebulon 'Zeb' Kirk (voice)
Released: October 13, 2007
Type: Movie
...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
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Title: Psych
Character: Ashton Bonaventure
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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The Light in the Piazza (Live from Lincoln Center)
Title: The Light in the Piazza (Live from Lincoln Center)
Character: Signor Naccarelli
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
Title: The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."
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Loggerheads
Title: Loggerheads
Character: Robert
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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The Dead Will Tell
Title: The Dead Will Tell
Character: Paul Hamlin
Released: October 24, 2004
Type: Movie
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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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Title: Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
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Race Against Time
Title: Race Against Time
Character: Dr. Anton Stofeles
Released: December 8, 2003
Type: Movie
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
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Adam Clarke (2004)
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Title: The Court
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: TV
The Court is an American legal drama television series that aired from March 26 until April 9, 2002.
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As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
Title: As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Rescued from the Closet
Title: Rescued from the Closet
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2001
Type: Movie
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
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Perfume
Title: Perfume
Character: Gary Packer
Released: April 8, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Reaper
Title: Reaper
Character: Luke Sinclair
Released: March 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Stark Raving Mad
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: TV
Stark Raving Mad is an American sitcom that aired from on NBC from 1999 to 2000. The series stars Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Wesley Masoner
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Judge Barry Krumble
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Let the Devil Wear Black
Title: Let the Devil Wear Black
Character: Jack's Father
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
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Title: Charmed
Character: Necromancer / Armand
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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Title: Felicity
Character: Dr. Peter McGrath
Released: September 29, 1998
Type: TV
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.
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Title: The Wild Thornberrys
Character: Myka (voice)
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: TV
The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Fritz Bhaer
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Road Ends
Title: Road Ends
Character: Esteban Maceda
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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American Perfekt
Title: American Perfekt
Character: Sammy
Released: June 11, 1997
Type: Movie
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 ...
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Title: Perversions of Science
Character: Carson Walls
Released: June 7, 1997
Type: TV
Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997. It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series. The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome and then an individual episode would start. After the episode was complete, Chrome would conclude Perversions of Science. Most episodes focused on a part of science fiction such as alien invasion or space/time travel. The show featured a mix of established talent and young up-and-comers. "Panic", for instance, starred a young Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy opposite Harvey Korman. As of 2011 the series has not been released on DVD in the US. However in 2001 it was released in Japan by Pioneer Entertainment where it has since gone out of print subsequently becoming sought after by collectors.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Bordello of Blood
Title: Bordello of Blood
Character: Reverend Current
Released: August 16, 1996
Type: Movie
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 thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
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Edie & Pen
Title: Edie & Pen
Character: Max
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Terminal Justice
Title: Terminal Justice
Character: Reginald Matthews
Released: April 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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"
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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Title: Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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The Vampyre Wars
Title: The Vampyre Wars
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
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When the Dark Man Calls
Title: When the Dark Man Calls
Character: Lloyd Carson
Released: June 14, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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No Greater Love
Title: No Greater Love
Character: Sam Horowitz
Released: April 11, 1995
Type: Movie
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?
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Dr. Pallas
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Just Cause
Title: Just Cause
Character: Lyle Morgan
Released: February 17, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Temptress
Title: Temptress
Character: Matt Christianson
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: ER
Character: Dr. Burke
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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David's Mother
Title: David's Mother
Character: Philip
Released: April 10, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Dark Tide
Title: Dark Tide
Character: Tim
Released: January 19, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Title: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Character: Jack Skellington (voice)
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Character: Martus Mazur
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: TV
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
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Lincoln and the War Within
Title: Lincoln and the War Within
Character: Abraham Lincoln
Released: December 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Love & War
Released: September 21, 1992
Type: TV
A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Title: A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Character: Paul Solomon
Released: September 13, 1992
Type: Movie
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
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The Resurrected
Title: The Resurrected
Character: Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen
Released: October 6, 1991
Type: Movie
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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Whispers
Title: Whispers
Character: Sgt. Tony Clemenza
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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The Stranger Within
Title: The Stranger Within
Character: Dan
Released: November 27, 1990
Type: Movie
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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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Howard Pincham
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Forced March
Title: Forced March
Character: Ben Kline / Miklos Radnoti
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Title: Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Character: John Lenczowski
Released: August 20, 1989
Type: Movie
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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Collision Course
Title: Collision Course
Character: Philip Madras
Released: April 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.
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Slaves of New York
Title: Slaves of New York
Character: Victor Okrent
Released: March 18, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
Title: Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
Character: George Janus
Released: December 3, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
Title: Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
Character: Himself
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).
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Child's Play
Title: Child's Play
Character: Mike Norris
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
An innocent-looking doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who refuses to die.
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Mayflower Madam
Title: Mayflower Madam
Character: Matt Whittington
Released: November 15, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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The Princess Bride
Title: The Princess Bride
Character: Prince Humperdinck
Released: September 25, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: The Creature
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Jacque Marchant
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: Movie
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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This Child Is Mine
Title: This Child Is Mine
Character: Craig Wilkerson
Released: November 4, 1985
Type: Movie
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.
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Fright Night
Title: Fright Night
Character: Jerry Dandrige
Released: August 2, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Protocol
Title: Protocol
Character: Michael Ransome
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.
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The Osterman Weekend
Title: The Osterman Weekend
Character: Joseph Cardone
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Broken Promise
Title: Broken Promise
Character: Bud Griggs
Released: May 5, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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The Day Christ Died
Title: The Day Christ Died
Character: Jesus Christ
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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Cuba
Title: Cuba
Character: Juan Pulido
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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You Can't Go Home Again
Title: You Can't Go Home Again
Character: George Webber
Released: April 25, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sentinel
Title: The Sentinel
Character: Michael Lerman
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors... a mysterious gateway to hell.
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Lipstick
Title: Lipstick
Character: Gordon Stuart
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Title: Dog Day Afternoon
Character: Leon Shermer
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Thursday's Game
Title: Thursday's Game
Character: Counselor
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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The Satan Murders
Title: The Satan Murders
Character: George
Released: January 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Shangri-La Plaza
Title: Shangri-La Plaza
Character: Victorio
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
"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.