Name
Dennis Christopher
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-12-02 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli on December 2, 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black.
His Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough role was as Dave Stohler in the coming-of-age classic Breaking Away (1979). Other roles include American track star Charlie Paddock in Chariots of Fire, and Fade to Black, science fiction movies like Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II. He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975. Television roles include "Jack of All Trades" in the Profiler TV series, Eddie Kaspbrak in Stephen King's It, Desmond Floyd in Jake Speed, and in the HBO series Deadwood.
Christopher has guest starred in two Star Trek episodes: the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Search (Part II)" and the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Detained". He also guest-starred as the demon-sorcerer Cyvus Vail in three episodes of Angel. Christopher had a reunion with Breaking Away "father" Paul Dooley, again as his son, in an episode of TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The two had first played father and son in Robert Altman's A Wedding.
In December 2006 he played Dr. Martin Ruber in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.
Known For
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Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril,...
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Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of t...
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In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure an...
- 1979 Breaking Away as Dave Stoller
- 1994 Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Leech
- 1990 Circuitry Man as Leech
- 1981 Chariots of Fire as Charles Paddock
- 1996 The Silencers as Comdor
- 1980 Fade to Black as Eric Binford
- 1995 Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare as Beauchamp
- 1996 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Philip D'Arnot
- 2010 Queen of the Lot as Odin Johannessen
- 1993 Doppelganger as Doctor Heller
- 2012 Django Unchained as Leonide Moguy
- 1977 September 30, 1955 as Eugene
- 1986 The Falling as Damon
- 1978 A Wedding as Hughie Brenner
- 1971 Blood and Lace as Pete
- 2006 Dangerous Isolation as Adrien
- 1970 Didn’t You Hear? as Kevin
- 1996 It's My Party as Douglas Reedy
- 1991 Dead Women in Lingerie as Lapin
- 1976 Bernice Bobs Her Hair as Charley
- 1989 A Sinful Life as Nathan Flowers
- 1982 Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder as Brian Anderson
- 1987 Friends as John
- 1979 California Dreaming as T.T.
- 1994 Boys Life as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
- 1999 Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows as Self
- 1991 False Arrest as Wally Roberts
- 1986 Jake Speed as Desmond Floyd
- 2013 Prisoners as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- 1997 Skeletons as Jim Norton
- 1971 The Young Graduates as Pan
- 1979 Elvis as Nick Adams
- 1992 Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story as Randy
- 1979 The Last Word as Ben Travis
- 1993 Necronomicon as Dale Porkel
- 2001 The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
- 1986 Flight of the Spruce Goose as Stan
- 1983 Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack
- 2004 Nine Lives as Mikey
- 1996 Mind Rage as Steve
- 1972 Roma as The Hippie (uncredited)
- 2021 Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ as Himself
- 2012 Jobriath A.D. as Himself
- 1994 The Disco Years as Mr. Reese
- 1977 3 Women as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1995 Aurora: Operation Intercept as Victor Varenkov
- 2022 Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
- 2016 Battle at Versailles
- 2012 Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution as Self
- Soon SILENCERS as Comdor
- 1993 Curaçao as Friedrich (uncredited)
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Henry Carlson
- 2001 Six Feet Under ( 1 episode ) as Kevin Lamb
- 2004 Deadwood ( 5 episodes ) as Bellegarde
- 2001 Star Trek: Enterprise ( 1 episode ) as Danik
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Homeless Guy
- 1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Noel Bishop
- 1993 seaQuest DSV ( 1 episode ) as Ambassador Dillington
- 1979 Tales of the Unexpected ( 1 episode ) as Killer
- 1985 Moonlighting ( 1 episode ) as Benjamin Wylie
- 1999 Angel ( 3 episodes ) as Cyvus Vail
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Richard Dorsey
- 2006 The Lost Room ( 3 episodes ) as Dr. Martin Ruber
- 2005 Criminal Minds ( 1 episode ) as Abner Merriman
- 1982 Cagney & Lacey ( 1 episode )
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
- 1982 Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Jack
- 1999 Roswell ( 2 episodes ) as Bobby Dupree
- 1993 Moon Over Miami ( 1 episode )
- 1995 The Watcher ( 1 episode )
- 2000 FreakyLinks ( 13 episodes ) as Vince J. Elsing
- 1990 It ( 2 episodes ) as Eddie Kaspbrak
- 2012 Perception ( 1 episode ) as Fred Gorman
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Lyman Taggart
- 2011 Unforgettable ( 1 episode ) as Lukas Emminger
- 2016 Graves ( 4 episodes ) as Martin Treadwell
- 1993 NYPD Blue ( 1 episode ) as Gerard prosser
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Roger Coffman
- 2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( 1 episode ) as Borath
- 1996 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures ( 22 episodes ) as Paul D’Arnot
- 1996 The Sentinel ( 1 episode ) as Anthony Bates
- 1994 New York Undercover ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Royce
- 2001 Crossing Jordan ( 1 episode ) as Charles Rutledge
- 1996 Pacific Blue ( 1 episode ) as Mortimer T. Anton
- 1996 Profiler ( 28 episodes ) as Jack of All Trades
- 1996 Profiler ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Ed Post
- 1996 Profiler ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades
- 1996 Profiler ( 2 episodes ) as Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
- 1988 Monsters ( 1 episode ) as Laurence Bauer
- 1991 Civil Wars ( 1 episode ) as Jamie Berne
