Christopher Sarandon (born July 24, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, as Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, as the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas and its spin-offs, and for his Oscar-nominated performance as Leon in Dog Day Afternoon.
Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son...
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Christopher Sarandon (born July 24, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, as Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, as the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas and its spin-offs, and for his Oscar-nominated performance as Leon in Dog Day Afternoon.
Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of Greek immigrant restaurateurs Mary and Christopher Sarandon. In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones which later went on to tour with such musical legends as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley. He earned his master's degree in theater from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he met his first wife, actress Susan Sarandon; they divorced in 1979. Sarandon then married and divorced model Lisa Ann Cooper during the 1980s;...
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