Dennis Christopher
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.
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Self
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Himself
Battle at Versailles
Prisoners
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Django Unchained
Leonide Moguy
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
Self
Jobriath A.D.
Himself
Queen of the Lot
Odin Johannessen
Inside the Lost Room
Self
Dangerous Isolation
Adrien
Nine Lives
Mikey
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Self
Skeletons
Jim Norton
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Philip D'Arnot
The Silencers
Comdor
It's My Party
Douglas Reedy
Mind Rage
Steve
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Victor Varenkov
Boys Life
Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Leech
The Disco Years
Mr. Reese
Necronomicon
Dale Porkel
Doppelganger
Doctor Heller
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Randy
False Arrest
Wally Roberts
Dead Women in Lingerie
Lapin
Circuitry Man
Leech
A Sinful Life
Nathan Flowers
Friends
John
The Falling
Damon
Jake Speed
Desmond Floyd
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Stan
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
Brian Anderson
Chariots of Fire
Charles Paddock
Fade to Black
Eric Binford
The Last Word
Ben Travis
Breaking Away
Dave Stoller
California Dreaming
T.T.
Elvis
Nick Adams
A Wedding
Hughie Brenner
September 30, 1955
Eugene
3 Women
Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Charley
Roma
The Hippie (uncredited)
The Young Graduates
Pan
Blood and Lace
Pete
Didn’t You Hear?
Kevin