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
Credits
- 2022 · Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
- 2021 · Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ as Himself
- 2016 · Graves as Martin Treadwell
- 2016 · Battle at Versailles as
- 2013 · Prisoners as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- 2012 · Django Unchained as Leonide Moguy
- 2012 · Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution as Self
- 2012 · Perception as Fred Gorman
- 2012 · Jobriath A.D. as Himself
- 2011 · Unforgettable as Lukas Emminger
- 2010 · Queen of the Lot as Odin Johannessen
- 2009 · Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- 2007 · Inside the Lost Room as Self
- 2006 · The Lost Room as Dr. Martin Ruber
- 2006 · Dangerous Isolation as Adrien
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as Abner Merriman
- 2004 · Nine Lives as Mikey
- 2004 · Deadwood as Bellegarde
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Roger Coffman
- 2001 · Star Trek: Enterprise as Danik
- 2001 · Crossing Jordan as Charles Rutledge
- 2001 · Six Feet Under as Kevin Lamb
- 2001 · The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Homeless Guy
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Richard Dorsey
- 2000 · FreakyLinks as Vince J. Elsing
- 1999 · Roswell as Bobby Dupree
- 1999 · Angel as Cyvus Vail
- 1999 · Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows as Self
- 1997 · Skeletons as Jim Norton
- 1996 · Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Paul D’Arnot
- 1996 · Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Philip D'Arnot
- 1996 · The Silencers as Comdor
- 1996 · It's My Party as Jack Allen
- 1996 · The Sentinel as Anthony Bates
- 1996 · Pacific Blue as Mortimer T. Anton
- 1996 · Mind Rage as Steve
- 1995 · Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
- 1995 · The Watcher as
- 1995 · Aurora: Operation Intercept as Victor Varenkov
- 1994 · Boys Life as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
- 1994 · New York Undercover as Dr. Royce
- 1994 · Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Leech
- 1994 · The Disco Years as Mr. Reese
- 1993 · Necronomicon as Dale Porkel
- 1993 · NYPD Blue as Gerard prosser
- 1993 · Moon Over Miami as
- 1993 · seaQuest DSV as Ambassador Dillington
- 1993 · Doppelganger as Doctor Heller
- 1993 · Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Borath
- 1992 · Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story as Randy
- 1991 · False Arrest as Wally Roberts
- 1991 · Dead Women in Lingerie as Lapin
- 1990 · It as Eddie Kaspbrak
- 1990 · Circuitry Man as Leech
- 1989 · A Sinful Life as Nathan Flowers
- 1987 · Friends as John
- 1986 · Alien Predators as Damon
- 1986 · Jake Speed as Desmond Floyd
- 1986 · Matlock as
- 1986 · Flight of the Spruce Goose as Stan
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
- 1985 · Moonlighting as Benjamin Wylie
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Henry Carlson
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Lyman Taggart
- 1983 · Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as Jack
- 1982 · Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder as Brian Anderson
- 1982 · Cagney & Lacey as
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Charles Paddock
- 1980 · Fade to Black as Eric Binford
- 1979 · The Last Word as Ben Travis
- 1979 · Breaking Away as Dave Stoller
- 1979 · California Dreaming as T.T.
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Killer
- 1979 · Elvis as Nick Adams
- 1978 · A Wedding as Hughie Brenner
- 1977 · September 30, 1955 as Eugene
- 1977 · 3 Women as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1976 · Bernice Bobs Her Hair as Charley
- 1972 · Roma as The Hippie (uncredited)
- 1971 · The Young Graduates as Pan
- 1971 · Blood and Lace as Pete
- 1970 · Didn’t You Hear? as Kevin