Jerry Dandridge

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Jerry Dandridge is a fictional character in the 1985 cult hit Fright Night portrayed by actor Chris Sarandon.

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Chris Sarandon spent as many as eight hours having vampire makeup applied.

The address of the house that Jerry Dandridge and Billy Cole move into is 99 Oak.

Jerry Dandridge whistles "Strangers in the Night" when entering Charley's bedroom.

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"Just think about this guy's problems. On the one hand you've got somebody who's got something everybody would probably love to have, which is eternal life. Also, he's tremendously powerful physically, and attractive sexually. What he does, people are, for some reason, attracted to. But at the same time, how would you like to know that if people found out about you, nobody would really want to hang around you? That is, to spend eternity--but to spend eternity shunned by any normal kind of society; not being able to form any kind of normal human relationship. To be, in a way, damned to eternity. There's a sense of this guy's tragedy as well as his attractiveness." - Chris Sarandon.

"The thing that appeals to me about Jerry, is that he's totally contemporary. That was something we all strived for, and something I found very interesting about the character, because he wasn't the Count of legend or Bram Stoker, but a guy who everybody knew and couldn't believe was being accused of being a vampire. He isn't the personification of pure evil that vampires are known to be." - Chris Sarandon.

"After I read it, I said, 'Gee, this is going to make a great movie. It's a shame that I'm not really interested in playing this part.' The reasons for that are that over the last couple of years I've played a few villains and didn't want to get locked into playing another one. I thought the character was an interesting one, though I didn't think it was quite fleshed out. Despite my reservations, I had some conversations with Tom, we came up with some ideas and I ended up doing it." - Chris Sarandon.