Dennis Christopher
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.
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Movies (51)
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022 · Self
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021 · Himself
Battle at Versailles
2016
Intriga
2013 · Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Django sin Cadenas
2012 · Leonide Moguy
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012 · Self
Jobriath A.D.
2012 · Himself
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Odin Johannessen
Dangerous Isolation
2006 · Adrien
Nine Lives
2004 · Mikey
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001 · Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999 · Self
Skeletons
1997 · Jim Norton
Las Aventuras Épicas de Tarzán
1996 · Philip D'Arnot
The Silencers
1996 · Comdor
It's My Party
1996 · Douglas Reedy
Mind Rage
1996 · Steve
Invasión Mortal
1995 · Beauchamp
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995 · Victor Varenkov
Boys Life
1994 · Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994 · Leech
The Disco Years
1994 · Mr. Reese
Necronomicon
1993 · Dale Porkel
Curaçao
1993 · Friedrich (uncredited)
Doble de muerte
1993 · Doctor Heller
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992 · Randy
False Arrest
1991 · Wally Roberts
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991 · Lapin
Circuitry Man
1990 · Leech
A Sinful Life
1989 · Nathan Flowers
Friends
1987 · John
The Falling
1986 · Damon
Jake Speed
1986 · Desmond Floyd
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986 · Stan
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983 · Jack
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982 · Brian Anderson
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Charles Paddock
Fade to Black
1980 · Eric Binford
The Last Word
1979 · Ben Travis
Breaking Away
1979 · Dave Stoller
California Dreaming
1979 · T.T.
Elvis
1979 · Nick Adams
A Wedding
1978 · Hughie Brenner
September 30, 1955
1977 · Eugene
3 Women
1977 · Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976 · Charley
Roma
1972 · The Hippie (uncredited)
The Young Graduates
1971 · Pan
Blood and Lace
1971 · Pete
Didn’t You Hear?
1970 · Kevin
SILENCERS
· Comdor
TV shows (35)
Graves
2016 · Martin Treadwell
Perception
2012 · Fred Gorman
Inolvidable
2011 · Lukas Emminger
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Self
The Lost Room
2006 · Dr. Martin Ruber
Mentes Criminales
2005 · Abner Merriman
Deadwood
2004 · Bellegarde
La Ley y el Orden: Intento Criminal
2001 · Roger Coffman
Viaje a las estrellas: Enterprise
2001 · Danik
Crossing Jordan
2001 · Charles Rutledge
Seis Pies Bajo Tierra
2001 · Kevin Lamb
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
FreakyLinks
2000 · Vince J. Elsing
Roswell
1999 · Bobby Dupree
Angel
1999 · Cyvus Vail
Profiler
1996 · Jack of All Trades, Sheriff Ed Post, Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades, Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996 · Paul D’Arnot
The Sentinel
1996 · Anthony Bates
Pacific Blue
1996 · Mortimer T. Anton
The Watcher
1995
New York Undercover
1994 · Dr. Royce
NYPD Blue
1993 · Gerard prosser
Moon Over Miami
1993
seaQuest DSV
1993 · Ambassador Dillington
Viaje a las estrellas: Espacio Profundo Nueve
1993 · Borath
Civil Wars
1991 · Jamie Berne
Eso
1990 · Eddie Kaspbrak
Monsters
1988 · Laurence Bauer
Matlock
1986 · Noel Bishop
The Equalizer
1985 · Father Nicholas Kostmayer
Moonlighting
1985 · Benjamin Wylie
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Dr. Henry Carlson, Lyman Taggart
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Jack
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Killer