
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







