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Chris Sarandon
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American actor
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Chris Sarandon is an American film, stage, television, and voice actor. Born in Beckley, West Virginia, in 1942, he began his work period in 1969. He was educated at West Virginia University and The Catholic University of America. Sarandon is male and speaks English. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He is married to Joanna Gleason and Susan Sarandon and has three children. His professional credits include acting roles in various productions. He is also listed as an author with one work count in some databases, though other sources list five works. He is referenced by 229 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · 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…
Known for
- Doc of Chucky — Self2024
- Death Wish — Manny2024
- Best Christmas Movies Ever! — Self2024
- Disclosure — Leon / Self (archive footage)2020
- A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion — Prince Humperdinck2020
- The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self2020
- Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive2017
- You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night — Himself2016
- I Smile Back — Roger2015
- Frank the Bastard — Tristan Pace2015
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 88
- Total plays
- 314
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,971x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,277x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Beckley
- Spouse
- Susan Sarandon
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Chris Sarandon July 2017.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1942-07-24
- Commons category
- Chris Sarandon
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
Sources (9)
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