Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Born December 2, 1950
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.
MovieHollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
MoviePennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
as Himself
TVGraves
2016
as Martin Treadwell
MovieBattle at Versailles
2016
MoviePrisoners
2013
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
MovieDjango Unchained
2012
as Leonide Moguy
MovieVersailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
as Self
TVPerception
2012
as Fred Gorman
MovieJobriath A.D.
2012
as Himself
TVUnforgettable
2011
as Lukas Emminger
MovieQueen of the Lot
2010
as Odin Johannessen
TVCelebrity Ghost Stories
2009
as Self
TVThe Lost Room
2006
as Dr. Martin Ruber
MovieDangerous Isolation
2006
as Adrien
TVCriminal Minds
2005
as Abner Merriman
MovieNine Lives
2004
as Mikey
TVDeadwood
2004
as Bellegarde
TVLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Roger Coffman
TVStar Trek: Enterprise
2001
as Danik
TVCrossing Jordan
2001
as Charles Rutledge
TVSix Feet Under
2001
as Kevin Lamb
MovieThe Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
TVCSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Homeless Guy
TVFreakyLinks
2000
as Vince J. Elsing
TVRoswell
1999
as Bobby Dupree
TVAngel
1999
as Cyvus Vail
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
as Self
MovieSkeletons
1997
as Jim Norton
TVProfiler
1996
as Jack of All Trades
MovieTarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
as Philip D'Arnot
TVTarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
as Paul D’Arnot
MovieThe Silencers
1996
as Comdor
MovieIt's My Party
1996
as Douglas Reedy
TVThe Sentinel
1996
as Anthony Bates
TVPacific Blue
1996
as Mortimer T. Anton
MovieMind Rage
1996
as Steve
MovieDeadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
The Watcher
1995
MovieAurora: Operation Intercept
1995
as Victor Varenkov
MovieBoys Life
1994
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
TVNew York Undercover
1994
as Dr. Royce
MoviePlughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
as Leech
MovieThe Disco Years
1994
as Mr. Reese
MovieNecronomicon
1993
as Dale Porkel
TVNYPD Blue
1993
as Gerard prosser
TVMoon Over Miami
1993
TVseaQuest DSV
1993
as Ambassador Dillington
MovieCuraçao
1993
as Friedrich (uncredited)
MovieDoppelganger
1993
as Doctor Heller
TVStar Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Borath
MovieWilling to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
as Randy
TVCivil Wars
1991
as Jamie Berne
MovieFalse Arrest
1991
as Wally Roberts
MovieDead Women in Lingerie
1991
as Lapin
TVIt
1990
as Eddie Kaspbrak
MovieCircuitry Man
1990
as Leech
MovieA Sinful Life
1989
as Nathan Flowers
TVMonsters
1988
as Laurence Bauer
MovieFriends
1987
as John
MovieThe Falling
1986
as Damon
MovieJake Speed
1986
as Desmond Floyd
TVMatlock
1986
as Noel Bishop
MovieFlight of the Spruce Goose
1986
as Stan
TVThe Equalizer
1985
as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
TVMoonlighting
1985
as Benjamin Wylie
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Dr. Henry Carlson
MovieJack and the Beanstalk
1983
as Jack
TVFaerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Jack
MovieDon't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
as Brian Anderson
TVCagney & Lacey
1982
MovieChariots of Fire
1981
as Charles Paddock
MovieFade to Black
1980
as Eric Binford
MovieThe Last Word
1979
as Ben Travis
MovieBreaking Away
1979
as Dave Stoller
MovieCalifornia Dreaming
1979
as T.T.
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as Killer
MovieElvis
1979
as Nick Adams
MovieA Wedding
1978
as Hughie Brenner
MovieSeptember 30, 1955
1977
as Eugene
Movie3 Women
1977
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
MovieBernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
as Charley
MovieRoma
1972
as The Hippie (uncredited)
MovieThe Young Graduates
1971
as Pan
MovieBlood and Lace
1971
as Pete
MovieDidn’t You Hear?
1970
as Kevin
SILENCERS
as Comdor
