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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1950-12-02

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Didn’t You Hear?	Kevin	70
2	1971	Blood and Lace	Pete	59
3	1971	The Young Graduates	Pan	66
4	1972	Roma	The Hippie (uncredited)	72
5	1976	Bernice Bobs Her Hair	Charley	54
6	1977	3 Women	Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)	72
7	1977	September 30, 1955	Eugene	66
8	1978	A Wedding	Hughie Brenner	63
9	1979	Elvis	Nick Adams	68
10	1979	California Dreaming	T.T.	46
11	1979	Breaking Away	Dave Stoller	71
12	1979	The Last Word	Ben Travis	40
13	1980	Fade to Black	Eric Binford	56
14	1981	Chariots of Fire	Charles Paddock	68
15	1982	Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder	Brian Anderson	50
16	1983	Jack and the Beanstalk	Jack	50
17	1986	Flight of the Spruce Goose	Stan	0
18	1986	Jake Speed	Desmond Floyd	44
19	1986	Alien Predators	Damon	52
20	1987	Friends	John	95
21	1989	A Sinful Life	Nathan Flowers	0
22	1990	Circuitry Man	Leech	49
23	1991	Dead Women in Lingerie	Lapin	50
24	1991	False Arrest	Wally Roberts	47
25	1992	Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story	Randy	60
26	1993	Doppelganger	Doctor Heller	50
27	1993	Necronomicon	Dale Porkel	60
28	1994	The Disco Years	Mr. Reese	51
29	1994	Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II	Leech	35
30	1994	Boys Life	Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)	48
31	1995	Aurora: Operation Intercept	Victor Varenkov	49
32	1995	Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare	Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp	47
33	1996	Mind Rage	Steve	20
34	1996	It's My Party	Jack Allen	63
35	1996	The Silencers	Comdor	44
36	1996	Tarzan: The Epic Adventures	Philip D'Arnot	62
37	1997	Skeletons	Jim Norton	48
38	1999	Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows	Self	0
39	2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Joshua 'Carrots' Beale	53
40	2004	Nine Lives	Mikey	49
41	2006	Dangerous Isolation	Adrien	47
42	2007	Inside the Lost Room	Self	40
43	2010	Queen of the Lot	Odin Johannessen	35
44	2012	Jobriath A.D.	Himself	71
45	2012	Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution	Self	0
46	2012	Django Unchained	Leonide Moguy	82
47	2013	Prisoners	Mr. Jones (uncredited)	81
48	2016	Battle at Versailles		100
49	2021	Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’	Himself	76
50	2022	Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story	Self	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Killer	67
2	1982	Cagney & Lacey		69
3	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Jack	82
4	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Dr. Henry Carlson	75
5	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Lyman Taggart	75
6	1985	Moonlighting	Benjamin Wylie	75
7	1985	The Equalizer	Father Nicholas Kostmayer	71
8	1986	Matlock		72
9	1990	It	Eddie Kaspbrak	69
10	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Borath	79
11	1993	seaQuest DSV	Ambassador Dillington	70
12	1993	Moon Over Miami		70
13	1993	NYPD Blue	Gerard prosser	70
14	1994	New York Undercover	Dr. Royce	72
15	1995	The Watcher		60
16	1996	Pacific Blue	Mortimer T. Anton	54
17	1996	The Sentinel	Anthony Bates	71
18	1996	Tarzan: The Epic Adventures	Paul D’Arnot	47
19	1999	Angel	Cyvus Vail	79
20	1999	Roswell	Bobby Dupree	77
21	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Homeless Guy	76
22	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Richard Dorsey	76
23	2000	FreakyLinks	Vince J. Elsing	62
24	2001	Six Feet Under	Kevin Lamb	81
25	2001	Crossing Jordan	Charles Rutledge	72
26	2001	Star Trek: Enterprise	Danik	76
27	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Roger Coffman	76
28	2004	Deadwood	Bellegarde	81
29	2005	Criminal Minds	Abner Merriman	83
30	2006	The Lost Room	Dr. Martin Ruber	77
31	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
32	2011	Unforgettable	Lukas Emminger	72
33	2012	Perception	Fred Gorman	72
34	2016	Graves	Martin Treadwell	50