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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
Criminal Minds
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Crossing Jordan
2001
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
NYPD Blue
1993
Angel
1999
The Equalizer
1985
Six Feet Under
2001
Unforgettable
2011
Matlock
1986
Pacific Blue
1996
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Moonlighting
1985
Cagney & Lacey
1982
seaQuest DSV
1993
Profiler
1996
Deadwood
2004
The Sentinel
1996
New York Undercover
1994
Perception
2012
Roswell
1999
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Monsters
1988
Django Unchained
2012
Prisoners
2013
It
1990
Graves
2016
The Lost Room
2006
FreakyLinks
2000
Chariots of Fire
1981
The Watcher
1995
Moon Over Miami
1993
Necronomicon
1993
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
3 Women
1977
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
Breaking Away
1979
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Elvis
1979
Doppelganger
1993
A Wedding
1978
It's My Party
1996
Roma
1972
Fade to Black
1980
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
Jake Speed
1986
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
The Silencers
1996
The Last Word
1979
The Falling
1986
Friends
1987
California Dreaming
1979
Skeletons
1997
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
Nine Lives
2004
Dangerous Isolation
2006
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
A Sinful Life
1989
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995
Circuitry Man
1990
False Arrest
1991
Blood and Lace
1971
Queen of the Lot
2010
Boys Life
1994
The Disco Years
1994
Mind Rage
1996
September 30, 1955
1977
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
Battle at Versailles
2016
The Young Graduates
1971
Jobriath A.D.
2012
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983
Didn’t You Hear?
1970
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
SILENCERS
—