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.
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
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Graves
Battle at Versailles
Prisoners
Django Unchained
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
Perception
Jobriath A.D.
Unforgettable
Queen of the Lot
Celebrity Ghost Stories
The Lost Room
Dangerous Isolation
Criminal Minds
Nine Lives
Deadwood
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Star Trek: Enterprise
Crossing Jordan
Six Feet Under
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Roswell
Angel
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Skeletons
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
The Silencers
It's My Party
The Sentinel
Mind Rage
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Boys Life
New York Undercover
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
The Disco Years
Necronomicon
NYPD Blue
Moon Over Miami
seaQuest DSV
Doppelganger
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
False Arrest
Dead Women in Lingerie
It
Circuitry Man
A Sinful Life
Friends
Alien Predators
Jake Speed
Matlock
Flight of the Spruce Goose
The Equalizer
Moonlighting
Murder, She Wrote
Jack and the Beanstalk
Faerie Tale Theatre
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
Cagney & Lacey
Chariots of Fire
Fade to Black
The Last Word
Breaking Away
California Dreaming
Tales of the Unexpected
Elvis
A Wedding
September 30, 1955
3 Women
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Roma
The Young Graduates
Blood and Lace
Didn’t You Hear?