Dennis Christopher
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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.
Known for
Credits
Django Unchained (2012)
as Leonide Moguy
Prisoners (2013)
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Jake Speed (1986)
as Desmond Floyd
Roma (1972)
as The Hippie (uncredited)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Charles Paddock
3 Women (1977)
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
It's My Party (1996)
as Douglas Reedy
Necronomicon (1993)
as Dale Porkel
Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
as Lapin
Breaking Away (1979)
as Dave Stoller
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)
as Self
Elvis (1979)
as Nick Adams
Doppelganger (1993)
as Doctor Heller
Boys Life (1994)
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
Circuitry Man (1990)
as Leech
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)
as Himself
Fade to Black (1980)
as Eric Binford
SILENCERS (—)
as Comdor
A Wedding (1978)
as Hughie Brenner
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
as Leech
California Dreaming (1979)
as T.T.
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
The Silencers (1996)
as Comdor
Skeletons (1997)
as Jim Norton
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)
as Beauchamp
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
as Charley
False Arrest (1991)
as Wally Roberts
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
as Philip D'Arnot
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992)
as Randy
The Last Word (1979)
as Ben Travis
Blood and Lace (1971)
as Pete
The Falling (1986)
as Damon
Curaçao (1993)
as Friedrich (uncredited)
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)
as Brian Anderson
Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995)
as Victor Varenkov
Queen of the Lot (2010)
as Odin Johannessen
Mind Rage (1996)
as Steve
Jack and the Beanstalk (1983)
as Jack
Battle at Versailles (2016)
Actor
Dangerous Isolation (2006)
as Adrien
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (2012)
as Self
Nine Lives (2004)
as Mikey
Friends (1987)
as John
Flight of the Spruce Goose (1986)
as Stan
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows (1999)
as Self
The Young Graduates (1971)
as Pan
Jobriath A.D. (2012)
as Himself
The Disco Years (1994)
as Mr. Reese
A Sinful Life (1989)
as Nathan Flowers
September 30, 1955 (1977)
as Eugene
Didn’t You Hear? (1970)
as Kevin