Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed Jack Lemmon's performance in The Apartment ( 1960 ), because Mendes wanted Spacey to emulate " the way moved, the way he looked, the way he was in that office and the way he was an ordinary man and yet a special man ".

In the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1994 ) Jack Skellington asks to see Santa Claus in Halloween Town, but he is mistakenly brought the Easter Bunny.

Before his death, Jack Parsons appeared in science fiction writer Anthony Boucher's murder mystery Rocket to the Morgue ( 1942 ) under the guise of Hugo Chantrelle.

Before and during World War II, Lucy had made several notable and successful guest appearances on several radio programs ; among them Jack Haley's radio show and bandleader Kay Kaiser's radio program.

Before the hiatus announcement, Gittleman had already formed a side project band named Avoid One Thing featuring members of Darkbuster, the Raging Teens and Spring Heeled Jack.

Before leaving, he enlists a former officer of his, Jack Cade, to stage a popular revolt in order to ascertain whether the common people would support York should he make an open move for power.

( Before this rule, the Jack could not drop back into coverage until the ball is thrown or the Quarterback is no longer in the pocket, and the Jack had to stay within the box designated by the outside shoulders of the offensive line, the line of scrimmage, and five ( 5 ) yards back from the line of scrimmage.

Before departing ( the hit men now on their way upstairs ), Phil is told by his father, Jack, that he is now the head of the family ... the man.

Before leaving, Archy gives all the prize money he won at the race and tells Jack that he will not be coming home for he had decided to enlist.

Jack is also the titular character in the short story " Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Story ".

A collector's edition The Nightmare Before Christmas themed Jenga game was issued with orange, purple and black blocks with Jack Skellington heads on them.

: Before a gig in a Buffalo club, that was called Jack Daniels, the owner twisted my arm for a band name.

Also in the film were Tony Todd from Candyman, Ted Raimi from Darkman, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, Ricco Ross from Aliens, Joseph Pilato from Day of the Dead, Reggie Bannister and the voice of Angus Scrimm ( both of the Phantasm films ), Jenny O ' Hara from the later Devil, Jack Lemmon's son Chris Lemmon from Just Before Dawn and George " Buck " Flower ( who was often used in small parts in various horror-movies of the 1980s and early 1990s, often directed by John Carpenter ).

* Zero ( The Nightmare Before Christmas ), a ghost dog owned by Jack Skellington, the main character in The Nightmare Before Christmas media

Before Eliza's relationship with Jack can be revealed, Eliza marries Étienne, the son of the duc and becomes Duchess d ' Arcachon.

Before he can speak a decision, Jack is knocked out.

Before his death in 2004, Bob Murphy still referred to it as the Jack Murphy Stadium during New York Mets broadcasts, even after it was renamed.

Before the attack, Jack truthfully tells Custer of the overwhelming force of Native Americans hidden within the valley of the Little Bighorn.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before turning to my views as to the problems and issues before us at this Regional Conference, I wish to note a small item in the Summary Report as it refers to the District of Columbia.

Before God I swear I am innocent.

`` Before God, Captain, I am innocent ''.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

:: The Christ was Jesus ' spiritual selfhood ; therefore Christ existed prior to Jesus, who said, " Before Abraham was, I am.

Before World War I there were more than 3, 500 cheese producers in Britain, while fewer than 100 remained after the Second World War.

Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

Before World War I, Portuguese forces, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territory's borders.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before World War I Italy and Austria-Hungary had been instrumental in the creation of an independent Albanian state.

Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and fuck her ".

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallised this.

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".