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.

Before being promoted to the majors, Aaron spent the winter of 1953 playing in Puerto Rico.

A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of Burton.

Before Westerberg joined the band, Dogbreath often drank and took various drugs during rehearsals, playing songs as an afterthought.

Before long, Guthrie bought his own harmonica and began playing along with him.

Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell.

Before the lightning strikes earth, the filaments lead electricity through the clouds, playing the role of lightning rods.

Before the game, the Mariners honored him with a 15-minute presentation which included a highlight reel of his playing career with the Mariners, a presentation of a " The House that Griffey Built " memorial by Mariners hall-of-famers and former teammates Jay Buhner and Edgar Martínez, and a 4 minute standing ovation from the sold-out crowd.

Before arriving at Lud, the ka-tet hear the drum beat from the song Velcro Fly, by ZZ Top, playing from the city, although Eddie at first can't remember where it is he has heard these drums before.

Before the development of digital computing, serious trials based on automata such as El Ajedrecista of 1912, were too complex and limited to be useful for playing full games of chess.

Before going, Conchobar goes to the playing field to watch the boys play hurling.

Before playing the first card, if either player holds the king of trumps, they can mark an extra point for themselves by announcing it.

Before the match, the leaders of the team, Bellini, Nílton Santos, and Didi, spoke to coach Vicente Feola and persuaded him to make three substitutions which were crucial for Brazil to defeat the Soviets and win the Cup: Zito, Garrincha, and Pelé would start playing against the USSR.

Before embarking on a third leg in the fall of 2005, Queensrÿche toured with Judas Priest across North America, playing an hour-long set consisting mostly of the band's older works and one song from the soon-to-be released sequel, entitled " I'm American.

Before playing, a dealer must be selected by drawing lots or by some other method.

Before Powell, Art Tatum and Earl Hines had also somewhat explored independent homophony closely resembling later piano playing.

Before a tour of Japan beginning in September, Lynott decided to bring in another guitarist, Dave Flett, who had played with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, to enable Ure to switch to playing keyboards where necessary.

Before The Vines began playing, Pelle Almqvist said to the crowd, " I know you want us to play more, but that's all the time we have so you can turn off TV now!

Before these three were playing piano, the two leading pianists were Jimmy Yancey and ' Pine-Top ' Smith.

Before moving to Aker Stadion in the beginning of the 1998 season, Molde had been playing their home games at Molde Idrettspark ( at the time called Molde stadion, and Gamle Molde stadion since 1998 ), a municipal-owned multi-use venue, since 1955.

Before that happened, the main adult characters teased Big Bird when he said he had seen the Snuffleupagus, because they did not believe there was such an animal, often despite evidence to the contrary ( such as an oversized teddy bear that Snuffy had left behind, or segments in which Snuffy interacted with other characters, such as a street scene where Snuffy was seen playing London Bridge with some of the neighborhood kids ).

Before Williams Jr. appears, Frank Gifford gives a short vignette about a memorable moment in the history of Monday Night Football featuring one or both of the teams playing that night's game.

Before playing, you can select certain weapons to be available only in bonuses, in the entire game, or completely disabled.

Before he was approached, Woody Allen considered playing Charlie.

Before travelling to Argentina for the World Cup, Platini won the first major trophy of his playing career, captaining Nancy to victory in the 1978 French Cup final against Nice and scoring the only goal of the game.

Before the start of each AFL match, players run through a banner constructed by supporters.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Before beginning the construction, the vertex figure ABCD is obtained by cutting each connected edge at ( in this case ) its midpoint.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before heterodyning, radio signals often overrode and interfered with each other.

Before a cell divides, the DNA is copied, so that each of the resulting two cells will inherit the DNA sequence.

Before then each referee had always been assigned to a specific match by a special commission of referees ( designatori arbitrali ).

Before mating, each male excavates a brood site, a saucer-shaped depression under a rock or log with its entrance positioned out of the direct current, usually pointing downstream.

Before going to bed, each member of the household would leave an item of clothing or strip of cloth outside for Brighid to bless.

Before 1814, the history of nobility is separate for each of the eleven provinces that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.

Before the players sit down they must complete a task that the music person gives out before each round.

Before long, a more advanced pantograph-based process made it possible to simultaneously produce 90 – 150 copies of each record.

Before the institution of interleague play in 1997, the two teams would have little opportunity to play each other.

Before Limbaugh, their day time talk show hosts were local and not particularly partisan, each quite a bit different from the other, and had diverse conversations on a wide variety of topics from both local and national politics, to food, to interviews with interesting people, book authors, and so forth.

Before racing, each athlete received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course description.

Before each run the athlete and his or her sled are weighed at the start ramp.

Before 1982, the excutive of a department was the prefect ( préfet ) who represents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the President of France.

Before the end of the war in August 1945, the HEW built 554 buildings at Hanford, including three nuclear reactors ( 105-B, 105-D, and 105-F ) and three plutonium processing canyons ( 221-T, 221-B, and 221-U ), each long.

Before doing the procedure, scientists must carefully calculate exactly what needs to be done, and treat each patient on an individual case-by-case basis.

Before speaking, each guest politely waits for the current speaker to finish.

Before each mission is a planning stage, during which the player is given a briefing, and then chooses the operatives to be involved in the mission, their weapons, equipment and uniform / camouflage.

Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, ( six or four according to the telling ) which forced her to return to the underworld for some months each year.