Dennis Christopher
Known for: Acting
Born: December 2, 1950
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
51 movies · 35 TV shows, newest first
6.6
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
7.4
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
5.0
Graves
2016
10.0
Battle at Versailles
2016
8.1
Prisoners
2013
8.2
Django Unchained
2012
NR
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
7.2
Perception
2012
6.6
Jobriath A.D.
2012
7.2
Unforgettable
2011
2.6
Queen of the Lot
2010
7.3
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
7.8
The Lost Room
2006
4.2
Dangerous Isolation
2006
8.3
Criminal Minds
2005
4.9
Nine Lives
2004
8.1
Deadwood
2004
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
7.5
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
8.1
Six Feet Under
2001
5.6
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
6.7
FreakyLinks
2000
7.7
Roswell
1999
7.9
Angel
19998.0
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
4.2
Skeletons
1997
7.0
Profiler
1996
6.6
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
5.8
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
4.8
The Silencers
1996
6.3
It's My Party
1996
7.2
The Sentinel
1996
5.3
Pacific Blue
1996
2.8
Mind Rage
1996
5.3
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
19957.0
The Watcher
1995
5.3
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
5.0
Boys Life
1994
7.3
New York Undercover
1994
3.5
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
5.7
The Disco Years
1994
6.0
Necronomicon
1993
7.0
NYPD Blue
1993
7.8
Moon Over Miami
1993
7.1
seaQuest DSV
1993
6.4
Curaçao
1993
4.8
Doppelganger
1993
7.9
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
6.7
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
4.5
Civil Wars
1991
5.8
False Arrest
1991
3.4
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
6.9
It
1990
4.9
Circuitry Man
1990
5.0
A Sinful Life
1989
7.0
Monsters
1988
5.6
Friends
1987
5.0
The Falling
1986
4.6
Jake Speed
1986
7.1
Matlock
1986
8.0
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986
7.1
The Equalizer
1985
7.5
Moonlighting
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
5.0
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
5.7
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
6.9
Cagney & Lacey
1982
6.8
Chariots of Fire
1981
5.6
Fade to Black
1980
5.0
The Last Word
1979
7.1
Breaking Away
1979
4.7
California Dreaming
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
6.9
Elvis
1979
6.3
A Wedding
1978
6.8
September 30, 1955
1977
7.1
3 Women
1977
5.3
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
7.3
Roma
1972
4.8
The Young Graduates
1971
5.7
Blood and Lace
1971
7.0
Didn’t You Hear?
1970NR
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