Dennis Christopher
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 2, 1950 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Credits
- 87
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
Django Unchained
2012Movie
Leonide Moguy
Prisoners
2013Movie
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Criminal Minds
2005TV
Abner Merriman
It
1990TV
Eddie Kaspbrak
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000TV
Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
Six Feet Under
2001TV
Kevin Lamb
Filmography
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022Movie
Self
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021Movie
Himself
Graves
2016TV
Martin Treadwell
Battle at Versailles
2016Movie
Prisoners
2013Movie
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Django Unchained
2012Movie
Leonide Moguy
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012Movie
Self
Perception
2012TV
Fred Gorman
Jobriath A.D.
2012Movie
Himself
Unforgettable
2011TV
Lukas Emminger
Queen of the Lot
2010Movie
Odin Johannessen
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009TV
Self
The Lost Room
2006TV
Dr. Martin Ruber
Dangerous Isolation
2006Movie
Adrien
Criminal Minds
2005TV
Abner Merriman
Nine Lives
2004Movie
Mikey
Deadwood
2004TV
Bellegarde
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001TV
Roger Coffman
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001TV
Danik
Crossing Jordan
2001TV
Charles Rutledge
Six Feet Under
2001TV
Kevin Lamb
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001Movie
Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000TV
Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
FreakyLinks
2000TV
Vince J. Elsing
Roswell
1999TV
Bobby Dupree
Angel
1999TV
Cyvus Vail
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999Movie
Self
Skeletons
1997Movie
Jim Norton
Profiler
1996TV
Jack of All Trades, Sheriff Ed Post, Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades, Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996Movie
Philip D'Arnot
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996TV
Paul D’Arnot
The Silencers
1996Movie
Comdor
It's My Party
1996Movie
Douglas Reedy
The Sentinel
1996TV
Anthony Bates
Pacific Blue
1996TV
Mortimer T. Anton
Mind Rage
1996Movie
Steve
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995Movie
Beauchamp
The Watcher
1995TV
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995Movie
Victor Varenkov
Boys Life
1994Movie
Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
New York Undercover
1994TV
Dr. Royce
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994Movie
Leech
The Disco Years
1994Movie
Mr. Reese
Necronomicon
1993Movie
Dale Porkel
NYPD Blue
1993TV
Gerard prosser
Moon Over Miami
1993TV
seaQuest DSV
1993TV
Ambassador Dillington
Curaçao
1993Movie
Friedrich (uncredited)
Doppelganger
1993Movie
Doctor Heller
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993TV
Borath
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992Movie
Randy
Civil Wars
1991TV
Jamie Berne
False Arrest
1991Movie
Wally Roberts
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991Movie
Lapin
Stephen King's It
1990Movie
Eddie Kaspbrak
It
1990TV
Eddie Kaspbrak
Circuitry Man
1990Movie
Leech
A Sinful Life
1989Movie
Nathan Flowers
Monsters
1988TV
Laurence Bauer
Friends
1987Movie
John
The Falling
1986Movie
Damon
Jake Speed
1986Movie
Desmond Floyd
Matlock
1986TV
Noel Bishop
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986Movie
Stan
The Equalizer
1985TV
Father Nicholas Kostmayer
Moonlighting
1985TV
Benjamin Wylie
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Dr. Henry Carlson, Lyman Taggart
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983Movie
Jack
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982TV
Jack
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982Movie
Brian Anderson
Cagney & Lacey
1982TV
Chariots of Fire
1981Movie
Charles Paddock
Fade to Black
1980Movie
Eric Binford
The Last Word
1979Movie
Ben Travis
Breaking Away
1979Movie
Dave Stoller
California Dreaming
1979Movie
T.T.
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Killer
Elvis
1979Movie
Nick Adams
A Wedding
1978Movie
Hughie Brenner
September 30, 1955
1977Movie
Eugene
3 Women
1977Movie
Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976Movie
Charley
Roma
1972Movie
The Hippie (uncredited)
The Young Graduates
1971Movie
Pan
Blood and Lace
1971Movie
Pete
Didn’t You Hear?
1970Movie
Kevin
SILENCERS
Movie
Comdor