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