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.
Filmography (84)
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
Battle at Versailles
2016
Graves
2016
Prisoners
2013
Django Unchained
2012
Jobriath A.D.
2012
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
Perception
2012
Unforgettable
2011
Queen of the Lot
2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Dangerous Isolation
2006
The Lost Room
2006
Criminal Minds
2005
Nine Lives
2004
Deadwood
2004
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
Six Feet Under
2001
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Crossing Jordan
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
FreakyLinks
2000
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
Angel
1999
Roswell
1999
Skeletons
1997
The Silencers
1996
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
It's My Party
1996
Mind Rage
1996
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
The Sentinel
1996
Pacific Blue
1996
Profiler
1996
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
The Watcher
1995
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
Boys Life
1994
The Disco Years
1994
New York Undercover
1994
Doppelganger
1993
Necronomicon
1993
seaQuest DSV
1993
Moon Over Miami
1993
NYPD Blue
1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
False Arrest
1991
Circuitry Man
1990
It
1990
A Sinful Life
1989
Monsters
1988
Friends
1987
The Falling
1986
Jake Speed
1986
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986
Matlock
1986
Moonlighting
1985
The Equalizer
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Chariots of Fire
1981
Fade to Black
1980
Breaking Away
1979
California Dreaming
1979
Elvis
1979
The Last Word
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
A Wedding
1978
September 30, 1955
1977
3 Women
1977
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
Roma
1972
Blood and Lace
1971
The Young Graduates
1971
Didn’t You Hear?
1970
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