Dennis Christopher
Acting
Born 1950-12-02
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
86 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Criminal Minds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Murder, She Wrote
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
NYPD Blue
Django Unchained
Crossing Jordan
Star Trek: Enterprise
Six Feet Under
Angel
Unforgettable
Deadwood
The Equalizer
Matlock
Moonlighting
Tales of the Unexpected
Cagney & Lacey
Profiler
Prisoners
Perception
seaQuest DSV
Pacific Blue
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Roswell
The Sentinel
It
Faerie Tale Theatre
Monsters
New York Undercover
Graves
Chariots of Fire
The Lost Room
Civil Wars
FreakyLinks
3 Women
The Watcher
Moon Over Miami
It's My Party
Roma
Breaking Away
Jake Speed
Elvis
Necronomicon
Dead Women in Lingerie
Boys Life
Doppelganger
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
A Wedding
Fade to Black
Flight of the Spruce Goose
The Falling
California Dreaming
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Circuitry Man
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Skeletons
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