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
all 82
Movies 50
TV Shows 32
self 7
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)
Graves (2016)
Battle at Versailles (2016)
Prisoners (2013)
Django Unchained (2012)
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (2012)
Perception (2012)
Jobriath A.D. (2012)
Unforgettable (2011)
Queen of the Lot (2010)
Celebrity Ghost Stories (2009)
Inside the Lost Room (2007)
The Lost Room (2006)
Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Criminal Minds (2005)
Nine Lives (2004)
Deadwood (2004)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Crossing Jordan (2001)
Six Feet Under (2001)
Kate Brasher (2001)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
FreakyLinks (2000)
Roswell (1999)
Angel (1999)
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows (1999)
Skeletons (1997)
Profiler (1996)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
The Silencers (1996)
It's My Party (1996)
The Sentinel (1996)
Mind Rage (1996)
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)
The Watcher (1995)
Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995)
Boys Life (1994)
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
The Disco Years (1994)
Necronomicon (1993)
NYPD Blue (1993)
Moon Over Miami (1993)
seaQuest DSV (1993)
Doppelganger (1993)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992)
False Arrest (1991)
Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
It (1990)
Circuitry Man (1990)
A Sinful Life (1989)
Friends (1987)
Alien Predators (1986)
Jake Speed (1986)
Matlock (1986)
Flight of the Spruce Goose (1986)
The Equalizer (1985)
Moonlighting (1985)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1983)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)
Cagney & Lacey (1982)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Fade to Black (1980)
The Last Word (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
California Dreaming (1979)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Elvis (1979)
A Wedding (1978)
September 30, 1955 (1977)
3 Women (1977)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
Roma (1972)
The Young Graduates (1971)
Blood and Lace (1971)
Didn’t You Hear? (1970)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1955-12-02 (68 years old)
Birth PlacePhiladelphia, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsDennis Carrelli
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