Dennis Christopher
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-12-02
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dennis Christopher
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.
Also Known For
Breaking Away
May 24, 1979
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Apr 16, 1994
Circuitry Man
May 01, 1990
Chariots of Fire
May 15, 1981
The Silencers
Apr 23, 1996
Fade to Black
Oct 14, 1980
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
Mar 07, 1995
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Aug 28, 1996
Queen of the Lot
Nov 19, 2010
Doppelganger
Mar 01, 1993
Django Unchained
Dec 25, 2012
September 30, 1955
Aug 19, 1977
Alien Predators
Aug 05, 1986
A Wedding
Aug 29, 1978
Blood and Lace
Mar 17, 1971
Dangerous Isolation
Sep 13, 2006
Didn’t You Hear?
Dec 16, 1970
It's My Party
Mar 22, 1996
Dead Women in Lingerie
Jan 01, 1991
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Oct 06, 1976
A Sinful Life
Jun 30, 1989
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
May 03, 1982
Friends
Nov 20, 1987
California Dreaming
Apr 01, 1979
Boys Life
Sep 30, 1994
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Jan 11, 1999
False Arrest
Nov 03, 1991
Jake Speed
May 30, 1986
Prisoners
Sep 19, 2013
Skeletons
Apr 04, 1997
The Young Graduates
Jun 02, 1971
Elvis
Feb 10, 1979
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Nov 08, 1992
The Last Word
Oct 10, 1979
Necronomicon
Nov 01, 1993
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Jan 20, 2001
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Jan 17, 1986
Jack and the Beanstalk
Sep 08, 1983
Nine Lives
Aug 13, 2004
Mind Rage
Jan 05, 1996
Roma
Mar 16, 1972
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Oct 15, 2021
Jobriath A.D.
Jun 15, 2012
The Disco Years
Jan 01, 1994
3 Women
Apr 10, 1977
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Jan 01, 1995
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Oct 07, 2022
Battle at Versailles
May 05, 2016
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
Sep 07, 2012
Inside the Lost Room
Apr 03, 2007
It - Uma Obra-Prima do Medo
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Six Feet Under
Jun 03, 2001
Deadwood
Mar 21, 2004
Star Trek: Enterprise
Sep 26, 2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Oct 06, 2000
Matlock
Mar 03, 1986
seaQuest DSV
Sep 12, 1993
Tales of the Unexpected
Mar 24, 1979
Moonlighting
Mar 03, 1985
Angel
Oct 05, 1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Oct 06, 2000
The Lost Room
Dec 11, 2006
Criminal Minds
Sep 22, 2005
Cagney & Lacey
Mar 25, 1982
The Equalizer
Sep 18, 1985
Faerie Tale Theatre
Sep 11, 1982
Roswell
Oct 06, 1999
Moon Over Miami
Sep 15, 1993
The Watcher
Jan 17, 1995
FreakyLinks
Oct 06, 2000
It
Nov 18, 1990
Perception
Jul 09, 2012
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Unforgettable
Sep 20, 2011
Graves
Oct 16, 2016
NYPD Blue
Sep 21, 1993
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Sep 30, 2001
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Oct 03, 2009
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Jan 03, 1993
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Aug 28, 1996
The Sentinel
Mar 20, 1996
New York Undercover
Sep 08, 1994
Crossing Jordan
Sep 24, 2001
