Dennis Christopher
Acting
1950-12-02 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022 · Movie
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021 · Movie
Graves
2016 · Series
Battle at Versailles
2016 · Movie
Prisoners
2013 · Movie
Django Unchained
2012 · Movie
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012 · Movie
Perception
2012 · Series
Jobriath A.D.
2012 · Movie
Unforgettable
2011 · Series
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Movie
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Series
The Lost Room
2006 · Series
Dangerous Isolation
2006 · Movie
Criminal Minds
2005 · Series
Nine Lives
2004 · Movie
Deadwood
2004 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001 · Series
Crossing Jordan
2001 · Series
Six Feet Under
2001 · Series
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
FreakyLinks
2000 · Series
Roswell
1999 · Series
Angel
1999 · Series
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999 · Movie
Skeletons
1997 · Movie
Profiler
1996 · Series
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996 · Series
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996 · Movie
The Silencers
1996 · Movie
It's My Party
1996 · Movie
The Sentinel
1996 · Series
Pacific Blue
1996 · Series
Mind Rage
1996 · Movie
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995 · Movie
The Watcher
1995 · Series
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995 · Movie
Boys Life
1994 · Movie
New York Undercover
1994 · Series
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994 · Movie
The Disco Years
1994 · Movie
Necronomicon
1993 · Movie
NYPD Blue
1993 · Series
Moon Over Miami
1993 · Series
seaQuest DSV
1993 · Series
Curaçao
1993 · Movie
Doppelganger
1993 · Movie
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Series
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992 · Movie
Civil Wars
1991 · Series
False Arrest
1991 · Movie
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991 · Movie
It
1990 · Series
Circuitry Man
1990 · Movie
A Sinful Life
1989 · Movie
Monsters
1988 · Series
Friends
1987 · Movie
The Falling
1986 · Movie
Jake Speed
1986 · Movie
Matlock
1986 · Series
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Moonlighting
1985 · Series
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983 · Movie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982 · Movie
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Series
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Movie
Fade to Black
1980 · Movie
The Last Word
1979 · Movie
Breaking Away
1979 · Movie
California Dreaming
1979 · Movie
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Elvis
1979 · Movie
A Wedding
1978 · Movie
September 30, 1955
1977 · Movie
3 Women
1977 · Movie
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976 · Movie
Roma
1972 · Movie
The Young Graduates
1971 · Movie
Blood and Lace
1971 · Movie
Didn’t You Hear?
1970 · Movie
SILENCERS
Movie