
Cast
Dennis Christopher
Acting
Cast
Dennis Christopher
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-12-02
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Dennis Carrelli
Biography
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.

Django Unchained
as Leonide Moguy

Prisoners
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)

3 Women
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)

Chariots of Fire
as Charles Paddock

Roma
as The Hippie (uncredited)

A Wedding
as Hughie Brenner

Necronomicon
as Dale Porkel

Breaking Away
as Dave Stoller

Doppelganger
as Doctor Heller

The Falling
as Damon

Elvis
as Nick Adams

Fade to Black
as Eric Binford

The Silencers
as Comdor

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self

Jake Speed
as Desmond Floyd

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
as Leech

False Arrest
as Wally Roberts

It's My Party
as Douglas Reedy

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
as Himself

Circuitry Man
as Leech

Skeletons
as Jim Norton

California Dreaming
as T.T.

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
as Philip D'Arnot

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
as Randy

The Last Word
as Ben Travis

Boys Life
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)

Dead Women in Lingerie
as Lapin

Queen of the Lot
as Odin Johannessen

Friends
as John

Nine Lives
as Mikey

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Charley

Dangerous Isolation
as Adrien

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
as Self

Blood and Lace
as Pete

Mind Rage
as Steve

Flight of the Spruce Goose
as Stan

Jack and the Beanstalk
as Jack

Aurora: Operation Intercept
as Victor Varenkov

The Disco Years
as Mr. Reese

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
as Brian Anderson

Jobriath A.D.
as Himself

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp

Battle at Versailles

A Sinful Life
as Nathan Flowers

Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
as Self

The Young Graduates
as Pan

September 30, 1955
as Eugene

Didn’t You Hear?
as Kevin

SILENCERS
as Comdor