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Dennis Christopher

Acting

Born December 2, 1950 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as Dennis Carrelli

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.

Filmography50+ titles

Criminal Minds

2005as Abner Merriman

Django Unchained

2012as Leonide Moguy

Prisoners

2013as Mr. Jones (uncredited)

Deadwood

2004as Bellegarde

Six Feet Under

2001as Kevin Lamb

Angel

1999as Cyvus Vail

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993as Borath

The Lost Room

2006as Dr. Martin Ruber

Roswell

1999as Bobby Dupree

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001as Roger Coffman

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000as Richard Dorsey

Star Trek: Enterprise

2001as Danik

Moonlighting

1985as Benjamin Wylie

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Lyman Taggart

Pennywise: The Story of It

2021as Himself

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2008as Self

New York Undercover

1994as Dr. Royce

Perception

2012as Fred Gorman

Unforgettable

2011as Lukas Emminger

Crossing Jordan

2001as Charles Rutledge

Breaking Away

1979as Dave Stoller

seaQuest DSV

1993as Ambassador Dillington

NYPD Blue

1993as Gerard prosser

Matlock

1986as Noel Bishop

3 Women

1977as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)

Monsters

as Laurence Bauer

Profiler

1996as Jack of All Trades

Cagney & Lacey

1982

It

as Eddie Kaspbrak

Chariots of Fire

1981as Charles Paddock

Tales of the Unexpected

1979as Killer

September 30, 1955

1977as Eugene

Jobriath A.D.

2012as Himself

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

1996as Philip D'Arnot

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2022as Self

A Wedding

1978as Hughie Brenner

False Arrest

1991as Wally Roberts

Fade to Black

1980as Eric Binford

Pacific Blue

1996as Mortimer T. Anton

Aurora: Operation Intercept

1995as Victor Varenkov

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976as Charley

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

as Paul D’Arnot

Graves

2016as Martin Treadwell

The Falling

1986as Damon

Doppelganger

1993as Doctor Heller

California Dreaming

1979as T.T.

Jake Speed

1986as Desmond Floyd

Dangerous Isolation

2006as Adrien

Mind Rage

1996as Steve

Queen of the Lot

2010as Odin Johannessen